From Here To Eternity won the Oscar for Best Motion Picture of 1953, and picked up another seven, Best Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), Best Supporting Actress (Donna Reed), Best Director (Fred Zinnemann), Best Screenplay (Daniel Taradash), Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey), Best Sound, and Best Film Editing (these last two beating The War of the Worlds). This equalled the record of eight won by Gone With the Wind fourteen years earlier. The other contenders for Best Motion Picture were Julius Caesar, The Robe, Roman Holiday and Shane. IMDB ranks From Here To Eternity 6th on both popularity and number of rankings ...
Today I met Charles I in The Crown at Tur Langton and took him back to the well where he watered his horse as he fled from his defeat at Naseby. He had tried to relocate it a couple of times, and as I had photographed it last autumn, I volunteered to be his guide. We received a good reception in the pub and were accompanied on our walk by the man who makes all his royal finery, half a dozen locals, two Dalmatians and and a Labrador. Read more about Daniel Williams and his royal appearances on King Charles ...
Winter. Dark, cold, but mostly dark. And that means that, in order to get my ten thousand steps in each day, I spend some time each evening walking around the village. Well, I say "around", but given that the village consists of two roads, one of which is a cul de sac, that means walking a T-shape to the edges of the lit part of the village. Pavements or, to be more accurate, footways, are not part of our local infrastructure, so I am obliged to walk in the road. And, as I am a responsible adult, I wear an ...
Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP who was cleared while a senior Conservative official was convicted over election expenses, has some very critical things to say about the Electoral Commission. Writing for PoliticsHome after his acquittal, the Conservative MP said: It is their responsibility to interpret the law into understandable guidance for candidates and agents and have extra-statutory authority to produce guidance and rules to assist the electoral process. During the trial, the prosecution spent days considering the status of personalised and party generic Correx boards. Conservative Party guidance recommends a 4x potential use. If such plastic posters survive defacement or ...
Sat 19th
16:48
The marked electoral register: why Lib Dem campaigners should get it, and what to do with it
How people vote at elections is secret. Whether or not someone voted is, however, available in a document called the 'marked register'. This is, as the name indicates a copy of the electoral register, marked up by electoral administrators to show when ballot papers were issued (for in-person voting) or returned (for postal voting). Political parties can request copies of the marked register in paper format for polling stations and in either paper or data format for postal voters. (This distinction reflects how the marked register is originally created – literally by marking names off on paper in polling stations ...
Here's my latest news roundup, in which I cheer or jeer the week's events. Cheers to Zoe Ball on becoming the first female weekday Breakfast host on BBC 2. That's one more unenviable record now consigned to history. Cheers to the 432 MPs who voted against Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal. Of course there were various reasons MPs of all colours decided to reject it, but it was absolutely vital to defeat the government on this. Cheers to everyone involved in putting right the injustice of GlasgowCity Council's unequal pay - thousands of women will now be correctly remunerated. Cheers ...
Fin-de-siecle Paris is often depicted as a decadent playground savoured by the likes of Oscar Wilde, but the period was also one of great technical innovation, from the building of the controversial Eiffel Tower in 1887 to the introduction of electricity in middle class homes. Interestingly, both feature in Wash Westmoreland's lyrical biopic, Colette, helping to [...]
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My Lords, across the UK, Scotland and London voted most strongly for remain, which is somewhat ironic given the nationalists' antipathy towards London and London-based government. ​Northern Ireland voted clearly for remain, only to find its hard-line Brexit party tweaking the tail of a Brexit-traumatised Conservative Government. A lot has been said, I think rightly, about Theresa May's and Jeremy Corbyn's cavalier disregard for those who voted remain. "You lost. Get over it", they say, but they have been unable to come up with anything that can unite a majority. When the DUP is challenged for representing a minority in ...
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I saw on Facebook over the holidays that Layla was off to Estonia and just assumed that she was off on a jolly. Not so much, as her website reveals. She was actually in the Baltic state to take part training exercises with British troops. Layla, a former teacher, was part of a cross-party group of 7 MPs that spent several days with armed forces personnel as they carried out training exercises and duties in Estonia. More than 800 British personnel are currently stationed in the Baltic state as part of NATO's 'enhanced forward presence' along with Danish, Canadian and ...
Fri, 12:22: A good day for justice. Glad to be supporting GML. https://t.co/fHwlwEkJiY Fri, 12:22: RT @OliverBullough: This is quite a big deal. Remember that a Dutch court is still to rule on whether Russia owes the former Yukos sharehol... Fri, 12:56: Bridge of Buys: Poor puns on Rock's lowest rung https://t.co/5cqWaij3PA Nostalgia for the bootleg music tape stalls... https://t.co/S6hCYx6CbZ Fri, 12:56: RT @davidallengreen: When we had that leak from the Downing Street Dinner, we should have taken the EU's concerns about May's unreadiness f... Fri, 13:44: It's a bit ridiculous, isn't it? His term as Speaker is surely likely ...
Here are the latest general election voting intention figures from each of the main pollsters currently polling in the UK. As you can see and as has attracted some attention recently, the most frequent pollster, YouGov, is also the one currently finding the best results for the Conservatives. Two points of caution apply, however, before discounting the polling good news for Theresa May's party. First, its far from unknown for the pollster who stands out from the crowd to turn out to be the one that's right. Being nestled in the middle of the pollster pack is not a great ...
The Independent reports that Theresa May will consider axing the Human Rights Act after Brexit, despite promising she is "committed" to its protections. They say that the Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee wrote to the Ministry of Justice after the alarm was raised by the wording of the political declaration, which was agreed with the EU in December alongside the legally binding divorce deal: The declaration said the UK would merely agree "to respect the framework of the European Convention on Human Rights" - dropping the previous pledge of being "committed" to it. In response, Edward Argar, a junior justice minister, ...
I came across this accent via a report in the Daily Telegraph which had been posted on the Mersey Railways Facebook Group and found it interesting not least because railway accidents are thankfully so rare and this one was in the present Borough of Sefton. Here's the cutting:- And here's a link to the official report into the accident:- www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=746 It seems remarkable that so few injuries particularly serious ones were recorded especially when you look at the photo of the damage to the 2 trains in the Telegraph photo. Credit for the cutting – Phil Hilton Please click on ...
On the day parliament was supposed to vote on her deal to leave the EU, here Theresa May gives her reasons for remaining in the European Union shortly before the 2016 referendum. pic.twitter.com/6i0njr79CS— Paul McNamara (@PGMcNamara) December 11, 2018"Remaining inside the European Union does make us more secure, it does make us more prosperous and it does make us more influential beyond our shores."
The text is below: My Lords, in my youth, the union was strong. Not only had the four nations survived two world wars side by side but there was a community of interest that bound people together. ​Coal miners faced the same hazards in pits across Britain. The Gresford hymn is still played and sung annually at the Durham Miners' Gala to commemorate the 266 miners killed underground at the Gresford pit in 1934. Steelworkers from Merthyr to Shotton, Sheffield and Motherwell had common interests, and workers in the shipyards of Belfast and Glasgow, Liverpool and the Tyne shared common ...
Sat 19th
06:30
Ludlow's Corve Street to be properly resurfaced in February with three Sunday closures
Corve Street was resurfaced by Shropshire Council's former contractors, Ringway, in 2017. It was a very poor quality job that began to fail within weeks. It was immediately clear that the road would have be resurfaced. That work will now take place on three consecutive Sundays, 10th, 17th and 24th February. The work is timed to be least damaging to local trade, the visitor economy and buses. I am glad this work is going ahead. It will be disruptive but Corve Street will be much the better for it. The main problem with the original resurfacing by Ringway was it ...
