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Many thanks to Tim Worstall for putting together a Best of British blogging selection - and particular thanks to him for starting his first one with my posting Listen to Gladstone. The least I can do is add his blog to my list of links.

Long-held plans to build a community centre in Enfield Lock are dead in the water after the council withdrew its support for the project. Enfield Lock Action Group (ELAGA) first mooted plans to build a community centre on the site of the former science park in Innova Park five years ago.

Sometimes it is hard to escape the conclusion that some people working in the public sector would be happiest living in a totalitarian state. Take this report in today's Observer about reactions to Brian Aldridge outburst at Alice's intention to leave her fee-paying school and do her A levels at a further education College. (We're talking about the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, stoopid.) The paper quotes him as follows: "Borchester College?" exploded Brian. "Has she been on the horse pills? It's sheer madness. The college is full of Neanderthals ... Have you driven past it lately? Half ...

Plaid Cymru, the Party of wails are to fight the General Election campaign with the slogan, "Labour lied, vote Plaid". At least it has the virtue of rhyming.This descent into yah-boo politics so early on does not bode well for a constructive and adult disussion of the issues. Nor does the predictability of Welsh Labour's defence. They have hit back by saying that Plaid are "whingeing for Wales".As slogans go neither come anywhere near matching that used by the Liberal Party in October 1974, when they urged the British electorate to go for "one more heave". Still at least the ...

The Wales on Sunday this morning report that popular combo, Westlife, are to spend three nights, including St. David's Day, playing the Cardiff International Arena. The only problem is that the official tour T-shirt lists Cardiff as being in England. So, who are Westlife again?

This item says more about the opportunism of the BNP than it does about fox hunting, so if your idea of a good time is to spend a Saturday watching a pack of dogs rip apart a defenceless creature from atop a horse, please do not think I am pointing the finger at you. Nevertheless it appears that the BNP have jumped onto the Countryside Alliance bandwagon in the name of defending the "British way of life". The Observer reports today that, "During a hunting demonstration outside the Labour party spring conference nine days ago, far-right activists handed out ...

Local resident and Chair of Hounslow Liberal Democrats Harjinder Singh Khalsa is spending the next fortnight in India doing his bit for the Tsunami relief effort. Harjinder is in the Cuddalore district of India where he will be overseeing the repair of a nursery school. In addition to his work as Sikh Chaplain at Heathrow, Harjinder is a long standing volunteer with the Sikh charity Khalsa Aid.