Report to planning enforcement made 23 February. Acknowledgment 1 April. Initial investigation "aimed for" within 20 working days of acknowledgment. Terrible.

Another book, another blog post! Paul Spackman's "David Lloyd George - Welsh Radical, World Statesman" ramblingducky.blogspot.com/2026/04/and-...

Now watching... The Undertaker

Verisure... we'll ring you up in the middle of the night and scare you witless. You'll never sleep easy again!

Just arrived... Paul Spackman's new biography "David Lloyd George - Welsh Radical, World Statesman" from Barnthorn Publishing @barnthorn.bsky.social. A fresh view of the Welsh Wizard, in the first full-scale "Life" for many years. Many hours of happy reading ahead!

Francis Brett Young, doctor and novelist, died this day 1954. He dedicated "Dr Bradley Remembers" "To the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, OM whose Invalidity Insurance Act gave greater dignity and security to the General Practitioner in 1913" #OTD #OnThisDay

Join us in congratulating Paul Spackman on the publication of his book, David Lloyd George: Welsh Radical, World Statesman. It’s available to purchase via our website: www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk/product-page... And via Amazon: amzn.eu/d/06QmNWW4 #NewBook #Politics #DavidLloydGeorge

THESE ISLES: David Lloyd George (1863-1945), Liberal Party politician, laid the foundations of the welfare state and led the UK to victory as prime minister during the First World War, the first and only Welshman to hold that office. 1/9

David Lloyd George died this day 1945. A few books from my collection. #PTD #OnThisDay

A. J. P. Taylor, historian, journalist, born this day 1906. Edited "Lloyd George: Twelve Essays", "Lloyd George - A Diary" by Frances Stevenson, & "My Darling Pussy - The Letters of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson 1913-41". His "Lloyd George: Rise and Fall" is an important essay. #OTD #OnThisDay

A new Lloyd George book? A new blog post! ramblingducky.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-...

By @briancolker.bsky.social (hope it's OK to lift this, Brian!) "I was thinking about a good way to convey to people just how dramatic inequality is in the US. I came up with this framing: for someone making $20m a year, they would need to pay $1600 a gallon to feel the cost of gas as much as

Knut Hagberg, Swedish author and newspaperman, died this day 1975. Among his works "Kings, Churchills and Statesmen - A Foreigner's View", with profiles of the Kaiser, Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Jackie Fisher, the Duke of Marlborough, the Empress Eugenie, and others. #OTD #OnThisDay

Just received - Lloyd George and the Coalition Liberal Party - The Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Scovell, General Secretary of the Party, 1919 - 1922 edited by G. H. Bennett, materials form the Lloyd George Archive

Ann Parry, secretary (and bee-keeper) to David Lloyd George, and Curator of the Lloyd George Museum in Llanystumdwy, author of "Thirty Thousand Yesterdays", born this day 1889 #OTD #OnThisDay

Emyr Price, Welsh journalist, historian, and biographer of David Lloyd George, died this day 2009 #OTD #OnThisDay

"Opening doors for thirty years" doesn't make any sense as an advert for a transit van, unless you're selling it to ram-raiders.

It's the sort of people that are in that train advert taking the piss out of their poor friend for how he dresses that puts so many other people off travelling by train.

School book banning in the UK - Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Judy Geeson doing in Victoria Tennant in Inseminoid is a moment like Henry Fonda shooting the little boy in Once Upon a Time in The West.

Elon a liar? Gosh wot a surprise I never would have guessed it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Advance notice, Tuesday 24th March is the anniversary of the death of Mr Abney of Aswarby Hall, Lincs. It was the opinion of the coroner that Mr Abney had met his death by some wild creature. But Stephen Elliott's study of the papers led him to a very different conclusion. #TheFilmCrowd

Do you need to be a genius become a top chess player, or is practice enough? ♟️ Fernand Gobet, an International Chess Master, joins us to challenge the "10,000-hour rule" and explore what it truly takes to become a Grandmaster.

I'd have thought Farage would want us to go back to white fivers.

The Labour government has exceeded my warnings/ fears expressed at the last GE. I do, however, agree with the PM that this is an aggressive war contrary to International law (however abhorrent the Iranian Regime might be). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Try to force the Straits with obsolete warships, then send in the Anzacs.

I have just determined that the first person ever cremated at Birmingham Crematorium in Perry Barr , in 1903, was George Van Wart. "So what?", you might reasonably ask. George was one of the nephews and nieces of Washington Irving, for whom the story Rip Van Winkle was written.

People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups

Why we shouldn't leave Twitter ramblingducky.blogspot.com/2026/03/why-...

BBC News - Water firm admits six years of illegal pollution www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Arrived today - "The New Flesh - Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformation", edited by Mark Morris. Lates in the British Library @blpublishing.bsky.social "Tales of the Weird" subscription. Stories by Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joan Aiken, Mary Danby and many more. Good stuff!

Some photos from the 2026 Lloyd George Society Weekend: lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2026/03/13/p...

If you can't get to the University of Warwick on 1 May, booking for online attendance at our next lecture is also now available: bit.ly/3P5pqOZ 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester). All welcome #Skystorians

13 March 1915 - Intimations of December 1916. Lloyd George, Riddell, and Rufus Isaacs discuss Asquith's war leadership, with a Churchillian interjection. #OTD #OnThisDay ramblingducky.blogspot.com/2026/03/13-m...

So a quack and a liar. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please sign Richard Foord's petition against government plans to make it easier to build in flood plains.

Sir Alfred T. Davies, first Permanent Secretary (1907-25) of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, author of "The Lloyd George I Knew, and the Story of the Welsh Department", born this day 1861 #OnThisDay #OTD He also wrote on John Calvin, Robert Owen, and O. M. Edwards.

Disappointed to see Labour MPs vote down @libdems.org.uk proposals to cap the cost of branded school uniform. We want to put ££ back into parents' pockets and give schools freedom to set their own uniform policy. The Government's approach risks putting up uniform prices.

Wonderful day with the @lloydgeorgesociety.bsky.social yesterday with a small exhibition. Diolch am y croeso!

William Cobbett, activist, pamphleteer, MP, born this day 1763 #OTD #OnThisDay "A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty-thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts" Described as "The most powerful tribune that the English poor have ever known" by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Whilst there are many matters I may disagree upon with Sir Keir Starmer, I agree with his decision on the legality of the US actions against Iran. Defence is legal, but not be allowed to extend beyond defence. www.theguardian.com/us-nebws/202...

Anyone who makes Trump unhappy can't be all bad.

There were about 3600 public libraries open in the UK in 2020. This is about £40 for each of them.

La pêche au cormoran, probably slightly less disgusting than peche a la frog. archive.org/details/lapc...

Caught this on the radio the other day - fascinating, very good fun. Cornishman A. L. Rowse interviewed for "Conversation Extra" in 1985. Rowse reminisces about Ernest Bevin, Clem Attlee, Churchill, H. G. Wells, and others he knew as a politician, historian, & poet. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Senile Nazi with GPI makes terrible foreign policy decisions shock.

Dad's GP sent a prescription to a supplier who don't supply the product. So far have been in queue for over 18 minutes to surgery to try to talk to someone about it.

Wrongful arrest due to racist AI tech illustrates the disaster that is Labour’s AI ‘justice’ initiative buff.ly/zpEnQ4L AI facial recognition — Wrongful arrest @marisharay.bsky.social @voicenewspaper.bsky.social @maxwilkinson.bsky.social @thecanaryuk.bsky.social @libertyhq.bsky.social