The English Patient won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1996, and eight others: Best Director (Anthony Minghella), Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Sound. That year's Hugo went to the Babylon 5 episode Severed Dreams. I have not seen any of the other Oscar nominees that year; they were Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies and Shine. I have seen eight other films made in 1996: the three Hugo finalists, Independence Day, Mars Attacks and Star Trek: First Contact, and five others: Trainspotting, ...
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Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine has warned that thousands of businesses are facing uncertainty as furlough begins to wind down and the business rates holiday ends, while restrictions remain in place. How are businesses supposed to have confidence in a Government that promised to do whatever it takes, but is withdrawing support too soon? Now thousands of businesses are being left facing reduced support while still unable to operate fully to pay their bills. This gap before the next possible lifting of restrictions could be crucial for many of them. Bounce back loans are creating an extra burden and ...
FPC has had an unusual burst of work to finish up June, with three meetings within a week, one of them a full-day awayday. I'll start with our plans for future policy development work, which we discussed at our in-person awayday in the last Sunday in June. It was fantastic to be back all together, with the great majority of members coming. We all really enjoyed the energy of being able to work together in person rather than sitting individually at home on Zoom, which like everyone else we've done exhaustively over the last sixteen months. We started with a ...
Fri, 12:56: Missing adventure 'The Evil of the Daleks' to be animated in 2021 https://t.co/WgIoinTANV Hooray! Fri, 14:21: Disappointing but not very surprising, given that F was not prosecuted for the deaths and injuries that Saville found he definitely caused, but instead for deaths and injuries for which Saville found much weaker evidence. https://t.co/1UZfmhnJdJ Fri, 16:43: My top Facebook posts H1 2021 https://t.co/lsvUDuVjsZ Fri, 18:02: Friday reading https://t.co/25wSzjAbSD Fri, 18:43: Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber: Book 1, by John Gregory Betancourt https://t.co/FyZ0pGtpdX Fri, 18:58: RT @olivernmoody: Picture of the day: German FM @HeikoMaas personally delivering a crate of what ...
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Government to guarantee that no EU citizen without Settled Status will fall victim to the Hostile Environment, as new figures show that more than half a million people were still waiting for a decision on their application when the deadline hit on Wednesday. The statistics, published yesterday by the Home Office, show that, as of 30th June, 6,015,400 people had applied to the Government's EU Settlement Scheme, but only 5,446,300 cases had been concluded - meaning there are 569,100 people still waiting for a decision. The backlog grew by 70% in June alone, ...
A couple months of ago, Oxfordshire changed. For the first time in 16 years, the Conservatives no longer had a majority on the County Council and instead, an alliance was formed between the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the Labour Party to form an administration. We named this the Oxfordshire Fair Deal Alliance, and I was elected the Leader of the new council. For many years, I have been asked by voters why the opposition parties can't work together to effect change. In the Witney by-election of 2016, Robert Courts won 45% of the vote - why, I was ...
The UK Government is already in the process of changing planning laws to make it easier for developers to build expensive housing estates in previously protected green belt, now they are turning their attention to wildlife, all to appease developers, many of whome donate large sums of money to the Tory Party. The Guardian reports that ecology experts believe legal protections for wildlife and plants in the UK are set for a review that could result in some important species losing their entitlement to sp ecial status: Adders, slow worms, water voles, mountain hares, pine martens and red squirrels are ...
Before I started reading this book, I really, really wanted to like it. I held a desire to say something contrary to so many of the reviews I had read of it; I wanted to absorb the politics of the novel and, even if I disagreed with them, find a better way of understanding Rand's "objectivism" nonetheless. After all, I love the novels of Jean-Paul Sarte while finding most of his politics appalling – mostly but not limited to, his defence of Stalin long past a point where that was an even remotely defensible intellectual position given what was known ...
There were massed choirs, bands, marching soldiers, clapping children, thousands and thousands of red and yellow balloons and a military flypast. Some 72,000 hand-picked and thoroughly vetted party members packed into Beijing's Tianmen Square to perform a carefully choreographed warm-up act for a speech by President Xi Jinping to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party. The main thrust of Xi's address was that the Communist Party was now China and China was the Communist Party. The two entities have been declared indivisible. The Mandate of Heaven has fallen on the shoulders of the party's leadership and that ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - SATURDAY 3 AND SUNDAY 4 JULY 2021 Blackness Road (at West Park Road) - temporary traffic lights from Thursday 24 June for 10 days for Scottish Water work. West Marketgait (Greenmarket to Nethergate) - closed northbound on Sunday 4 July for Scottish Water work. REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 5 JULY 2021 Perth Road (at Riverside Drive) - off‑peak temporary traffic control for one week for lining work. Brook Street, Dundee- temporary traffic lights for one week for City Fibre H3G project. City ...
We have our Trivial Fact of the Day, though the judges admit that you have to have been around in the 1970s to appreciate it fully. Patrick Cargill (1918-1996) was an actor best known for starring in the situation comedy Father, Dear Father between 1968 and 1973. (Typically for the era, there were also a film in 1973 and series made in Australis in 1978 and 1980.) He also had a film career, appearing in Carry on Jack, Help! and The Magic Christian. Robin Jackman (1945-2020), a seam bowler with a brisk, short-stepped run up, was a Surrey stalwart who ...
