"And then he said..."

So, let’s see if I’ve got this straight.

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The last 20 visits to the Journalspace version of this blog from Google used the following search terms (just so you know what the world is interested in…
23 Jan, Mon, 03:25:23: vinyl shirt little briton23 Jan, Mon, 09:29:17: destruction doncaster dome (Does anyone know what this is? I get it lots, especially after Human [...]

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Went out again today taking more photos for a Lib Dem leaflet. We ended up at the bar of the football club I mentioned on Thursday, and it was packed with members. All of them, I would judge, were the type of people not afraid to call a spade a spade, so I was prepared [...]

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I'm no fan of Mark Oaten, as I think I've made clear, but this is rather a shame. The thing I'm saddest to see is him apologising to his family – immediately revealing the furtive sordidness of it all. No-one hires a rent boy for that length of time for cash, surely? Which would imply [...]

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So Mark Oaten has departed from the Lib Dem leadership race, his campaign having been met with a certain amount of derision and rather a lot of underwhelmed silence. While some people clearly have a lot of faith in him and others were out to get him from the start, most gave him a fair [...]

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Here's the second post on Saturday's Meeting the Challenge conference – this one's on the leadership candidates' speeches.
There were all four very different.

Ming gave a leader's speech, not a candidate's speech. It was thin on detail but heavy on gravitas. He was visibly distracted by the way his microphone kept randomly failing, but he [...]

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I'm working from home today – a real delight after a pretty grim journey on the Tube yesterday. But I can't believe how cold and gloomy it is. Midday and I've got the light on, even though I'm next to a window, and a fan heater blowing.
Tomorrow should be interesting – we're going to the [...]

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