Liberal England

I knew I had to look for a derelict cinema in Coalville and, when I turned my mind to the search, I found I was standing outside it.
Cinema Treasures reveals that it had 1200 seats and two screens, and says:
An astonishing Moderne style façade to find in a small town, originally surmounted by a neon-lit semi-sky sign. Inside the two-level auditorium, the main feature is the highly-ribbed ante-proscenium, covered in silver plastic paint and up-lit from the...

This was Laura Kuenssberg last night, talking up the gossip about the London Mayoral contest when not a vote had yet been counted and nothing about the outcome could be "clear".
The story about a Conservative victory seems to have originated from someone who had looked at the turnout figures for the different boroughs, put two and two together and made eleven....

Thanks to Liberal Democrat Voice for this photo of Ed Davey and some dinosaurs.
Lord Bonkers tells me the party's original plan was to use his old friend Ruttie, the Rutland Water Monster, but in the event it proved impossible to agree a fee.

I miss blogging in scuzzy internet cafes. I was in one in King's Lynn when I looked out the window and saw the town's Conservative Club was flying the flag of St George.
As I then wrote:
Until a very few years ago it would have been unthinkable for it to have flown anything but the Union Jack....