This sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was made came out in 1968, which seem strangely familiar to anyone who knows Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale, which was released 24 years earlier. Was Kubrick influenced by the earlier film? Almost certainly not. In a footnote to his article Deconstructing the Imagined Village: A Canterbury Tale, Paul Banks writes: Ian Christie has recently pointed out in a letter to the Times Literary Supplement, 6023 (7 September 2018), 6, that even if Kubrick had seen A Canterbury Tale before making his own film, it would have ...
The candidate who won the highest percentage vote in any contest last Thursday was the Liberal Democrat Heather Kidd in Shropshire Council's Chirbury & Worthen ward. She received 71.1 per cent of the votes cast, despite having Conservative, Labour, Green and Reform opponents. Chirbury & Worthen is a large rural ward which takes in the western flank of - you know what's coming - the Stiperstones, including the former lead-mining village of Snailbeach. But stay with me. This post isn't just an excuse for quoting some descriptive writing about Shropshire, because the second passage includes a bit of history that ...
"It needs to restore its reputation for economic credibility, which means that it cannot deny the damage done by Brexit - and support measures to mitigate that damage by moving closer to the EU. It should be willing to be very critical of Donald Trump. And it needs to wholeheartedly make the case against Reform and Farage not on tactical grounds - 'vote Reform, get Labour' - but because it is a very bad idea to get Reform at all."David Gauke charts a path to recovery for the Conservatives, but doubts they will take it. Simon Fletcher fears Keir Starmer's ...
As a solo consultant, you're probably working on a number of projects at any one time. You also have proposals to write, thing to follow up on and various other aspects of running the business to tend to. You also, no doubt, have other things going on in your life, too. So keeping track of all the things you need to do, and making sure that you actually do them, is critical. There are various rather impressive project management tools and software platforms available to consultants. But much of their functionality is based on the ability to share tasks across ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 5 MAY 2025 Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until August 2025 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until August 2025 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until August 2025 for construction works. Scottish and Southern Energy Networks Elmwood Cable Renewal Scheme - temporary traffic lights and road closure from Tuesday 4 March for 12 weeks insofar as it affects the West End Ward : Ancrum ...
In the words of the chant directed at their opponents by football supporters when their team is winning, 'It gone all quiet over there?' Reform may have come out of Thursday's elections controlling ten councils and two mayoral offices, but they achieved this on only 31% of the votes cast. It was only the fact that support for all the other parties was so fragmented that made this possible. An analysis by John Curtice for the BBC identifies that the vagaries of the first past the post system were magnified by this fragmentation leaving Farage's acolytes with far more seats ...
