Sat 24th
14:33

Unforgiven

Unforgiven won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1992, and three others: Best Director (Clint Eastwood), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman) and Best Film Editing. It lost in five other categories to five different films (including Clint Eastwood's nomination for Best Actor) That year's other Best Picture nominees were The Crying Game and Howard's End, which I have seen, and A Few Good Men and Scent of a Woman, which I haven't. I had not seen Unforgiven before, but I had seen a dozen other films made that year: Basic Instinct, Batman Returns, Wayne's World, Sister Act, The Crying Game, ...

It really is starting to fall apart in Borisland, isn't it? From Barnard Castle to Rasputin to political assassin, Dominic Cummings knows how to make an impression, and this week he hasn't disappointed. As the Guardian reports, the former Prime Ministerial aide has launched an unprecedented and extraordinary attack on Boris Johnson, alleging that the prime minister tried to quash a leak inquiry as it implicated an ally, and hatched a "possibly illegal" plan for donors to pay to renovate his flat. The paper says that Cummings used a lengthy post on his personal blog to deny he had leaked ...

Posted by Peter Black on Peter Black
Sat 24th
11:00

My tweets

Fri, 12:56: RT @The66Ramblers: Whenever I think I've messed something up at work, I just remind myself at least it's not immortalised for the rest of t... Fri, 16:05: These are the last two pictures taken from the surface of Venus, on 5 March 1982, almost 40 years ago. You can also listen to the Venusian wind recorded by Venera 14: https://t.co/GOgKGmMTur https://t.co/dLVZ7Bcast Fri, 17:11: Fascinating (and grim) thread. I wonder if the 2020 vote had the same correlation? (Probably.) https://t.co/UeoLDNoFXb Fri, 18:07: Friday reading https://t.co/5oUOLQgnVq Fri, 18:17: February 2011 books https://t.co/wZbMT7CwNT Fri, 18:25: Wow. https://t.co/UGsYY2rtUG Fri, 20:48: The lost ...

Ed Davey announced last night that he and his family have to self isolate as someone who helps him and his wife Emily care for their disabled son John has tested positive for Coronavirus. I've just been told someone who comes into my home, to help us care for my son, has tested positive for Covid. My family and I are immediately self-isolating and waiting for further instructions from NHS test and trace. — Ed Davey MP [IMG: 🔶] [IMG: 🇪🇺] (@EdwardJDavey) April 23, 2021 All of us at LDV wish the family well and hope that the person who ...

Posted by Caron Lindsay on Liberal Democrat Voice
Sat 24th
08:30

Whoniversaries 24 April

i) births and deaths 24 April 2008: death of Tristram Cary, who wrote incidental music for six First Doctor stories and two later ones. Here's his "The Ambush" for the story we now call The Daleks. ii) broadcast anniversaries 24 April 1965: broadcast of "The Space Museum", first episode of the story we now call The Space Museum. The Tardis jumps a time-track and the crew find themselves in a museum where they cannot interact with the locals and they themselves appear on display. (A really good one, this.) 24 April 1971: broadcast of third episode of Colony in Space. ...

Blether Tay-Gither is the Dundee Storytelling Group. From Sheila Kinninmonth, Blether Tay-Gither's secretary : Hope you can join us for our April Blether on Zoom Tuesday 27th April - 7pm to 9pm This month's theme for those who want a theme is is Rebels, Bandits, and Outlaws - but feel free to share any story, poem or song you would like to share, we're very informal and not at all strict. Limit 10 minutes maximum please. Stories throughout the ages are told about those who do not play by the rules. I'm certain we have all had a hero with ...

If every there was example of how Shirehall and the Conservative administration ignore the south of the county, it is this. The council yesterday announced free park and ride bus services in Shrewsbury for two weeks from 26 April. It's a good idea and will encourage bus use and help Shrewsbury town centre in its recovery phase. I am livid but not surprised that Ludlow's park and ride has not been included in this scheme. Shropshire Council has shown little interest in our town's recovery and absolutely none in the park and ride service. That is despite the portfolio holder ...

Posted by andybodders on Andy Boddington

You'll never guess who gave the address at Benny Hill's memorial service. Well you will because you've just read the headline, but it is still a remarkable piece of trivia. Indeed, it's my Trivial Fact of the Day. I was put on to it by Jonathan Meades and The International Anthony Burgess Foundation has more: Burgess was introduced to Benny Hill through his brother Lenny Hill, with whom he shared a literary agent. They met occasionally for dinner in London until Benny Hill's death in 1992. Burgess admired Benny Hill's bawdy style of visual comedy, and he claimed that Hill ...

Posted by Jonathan Calder on Liberal England