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The perils of choosing a Lib Dem Voice poll
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09/05/2008
It’s an odd experience, sometimes, editing Lib Dem Voice. Last night, we were chided – quite rightly – for keeping up on the site an out-of-date poll. So, today, as I cycled into work I resolved to stick up a new poll for readers pretty damn smart.The question was: what to ask? I toyed with ‘How long...
The perils of choosing a Lib Dem Voice poll
The week after the eight years before
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09/05/2008
So this is what it feels like to be a normal person again... After eight years, I am no more; I have ceased to be; I am an ex-councillor.Chatting to two fellow councillors last week, I could sense a faint trace of pity in their looks, as if, by standing down, I was tossing away the holy grail. They asked...
The week after the eight years before
Top UK Movies This Week and Where to See Them (May 9-15)
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09/05/2008
Top UK Movies Iron Man (see at George, Magdalen, Vue) Forgetting Sarah Marshall (see at George, Vue) Nim's Island (see at Magdalen, Vue)...
Top UK Movies This Week and Where to See Them (May 9-15)
What's in the Cinema this Week? (May 9-15)
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09/05/2008
The following films are coming out in Oxford this week:
Speed Racer (PG) starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon,...
What's in the Cinema this Week? (May 9-15)
What's in the Theatre this week? (May 9-15)
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09/05/2008
Oxford Playhouse:
A Doll's House - A version by Frank McGuinness of Henrik Ibsen's original. Set as a picture of 1950s domestic bliss,...
What's in the Theatre this week? (May 9-15)
This Week's Music Highlights (May 9-15)
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09/05/2008
Friday:Evening Of Piano Trios & Song - St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Road Oxford New Orchestra Trinity Term Concert - New College Chapel Oxford Philomusica: The Magic Of Mozart - Sheldonian Theatre Steve Fishwick (trumpet) Tim Lapthorn (piano) Tim...
This Week's Music Highlights (May 9-15)
Vote Tory, get Labour
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08/05/2008
If, indeed, she has bated her breath as she proposed, yet another by-election would be in the offing following Cllr Bance's self-suffocation. She was eager to see my response to the local elections, which I've been intending to post for some time, but only now have the opportunity.There were two winners...
Vote Tory, get Labour
Comments now back up
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06/05/2008
Thanks to the lovely Steve Hanlon. Please do go back and comment on the past few days’ election posts here, here, here, here, here and here.
Update: unfortunately my links list now appears to be buggered. Oh well. Particular apologies to non-Labour bloggers listed as Labour, and Labour bloggers...
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More elections merry-go-round
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06/05/2008
I thought Cllr Malik was playing a joke on me when he texted at 5pm that there was to be a by-election in Holywell ward of Oxford City Council. But no, he wasn’t; it would appear that Cllr Richard Huzzey (Lib Dem) is stepping down for reasons unspecified, so there will be another election [...]
More elections merry-go-round
Oxford elections round-up
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05/05/2008
One of the uses of the internet is that stories that aren’t picked up by the MSM (apparently, that means “mainstream media”) get an airing. So, in the spirit of that, and in a continued avoidance of the state of the party in the rest of the country, I thought I would post a [...]
Oxford elections round-up