Six of the Best 577

Tim Holyoake says remaining in the European Union is the proud, patriotic choice: "Why would we want to throw away all of the advances we’ve made as proud Britons over the last few decades? Why would we choose to leave the EU and sacrifice our security, prosperity, freedom and sovereignty to an uncertain future in an uncertain world?"

"A ... recent Canadian academic study ... found not just that architects disagreed with the public on what was an attractive building but that they couldn’t predict what the public would like." Nicholas Boys Smith argues that we need to make new homes more popular.

Gabriel Rosenberg examines how preserving the 'family farm' became central to American politics.

Mimi Matthews on Jane Eyre's encounter with the legendary gytrash.

"Of the many bridges that span the River Thames in London, Hammersmith Bridge must certainly rank as one of the most picturesque." Flickering Lamps looks at its history.

Anders Hanson visits Wakefield.

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Welcome to the new Liberal Democrat bloggers

Two new blogs appeared on the LibDemBlogs aggregator in November. Thanks to Ryan Cullen as ever for sending me the details.

John Rodgers devotes his blog to the Healey area of Rochdale and Lib Dem campaigns there:

The Pond is a little Jewel. It’s a lovely asset for the community but the Council needs to spend some money to sort the walkway round the pond as it’s very loose and possibly dangerous. The Geese seem to be having a good time though.

Swallow of Liberty, written by Ben Powell, has seen only three sporadic posts. Yet it has already quoted 'Me and the Farmer' by the Housemartins in the course of this post on agriculture:

Less than half the butter we eat in this country comes from UK milk and only a third of the cheese. We do however import 40,000 tonnes of cheddar even though you could hardly think of a more British product.

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