This sort video explores an unexpected and exciting piece of film and television history. Muriel Box's 1955 film explored the perils of reality television 45 years before Big Brother was first screened. Simon and Laura provided Peter Finch with his first leading role (Laura was played by Kay Kendall). His last film, Network in 1976, was also about television.
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe is right - this Country has been colonised by immigrants - for more than 2,000 yea...
By an incredible chance, the nasty little tax dodger who is a co-owner of Manchester United has got it right when he says that this Country has been colonised by immigrants, because it has been, with successive waves of immigration, since at least AD 55 when Caeser turned up with his legions! Mind you Ratcliffe has little loyalty to this Country - he is now officially resident in Monaco! Well, that is one less to worry about with our apparent overcrowding problem! He is so concerned about the problems of the UK that he has taken his profits and the ...
You've got to admire Sir Jim Ratcliffe. It takes a certain kind of genius to build a bonfire out of football tribalism, Brexit politics, tax avoidance, right-wing dog whistles and historical colonial sensitivity, set fire to it and then throw yourself on top. As self-immolative performance art goes, it is unbeatable. The Manchester United co-owner managed to offend almost everyone this week by declaring that Britain has been "colonised by immigrants". Not "immigration has risen" or "we need border controls" or any of the hundred ways you can open a debate on migration policy without sounding like you're auditioning for ...
Jessica Valenti sounds the alarm about the Heritage Foundation's plan for American women: "Like the conservative movement more broadly, the organisation wants young women to believe this is all being done for their benefit: that work is soulless and unfulfilling, that feminism has made women miserable, and that the real path to happiness is being a stay-at-home mom. The latest right-wing mantra for women? 'Less burnout, more babies.'" The government's proposed model for mandatory reporting of suspected child sexual abuse bears no resemblance to the frameworks used in the 82 per cent of countries that have enacted such legislation, argues ...
Daisy Cooper's call to break up the Treasury and create a new Department for Growth is the kind of proposal that deserves more than reflex applause or suspicion. It is not simply a change of ministerial job titles, but a complete restructuring of the British state, and it raises the question of whether such restructuring helps or hinders long-term prosperity outside Westminster and London. What follows is a friendly, Jenkinsite-based debate between two Liberal Democrats who agree on the destination: a Britain where wealth, power and opportunity are less concentrated, and where institutions are accountable to the whole country. Where ...
Reform's candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwin, has come up with a remarkable (and remarkably bad) policy to tax people if they have no children. So how could this work in practice?Would this be an income tax or some kind of poll tax?Perhaps it could be something like the BBC license fee?Who in a household would pay it?Would this tax apply to people who are infertile due to
On Tuesday, a somewhat cryptic message went up on Lib Dem social media promising a "big announcement" at 09:00. Naturally, expectations were raised. When a Party primes its members and supporters like that, you assume something substantial is coming — a major defection, implementation of a flagship policy passed by Conference, or a decisive shift in direction. Instead, what we got was... rebranding the Treasury as the "Department of Growth." A dull, inoffensive, and uninspiring ghost of New Labour if ever I saw one. We're told its functions will be reorganised and the whole department relocated to Birmingham. For a ...
Embed from Getty ImagesWhen Reform UK formed a minority administration at Leicestershire County Council last May, 22-year-old Joseph Baum was made deputy leader and the cabinet member for adult social care. He had lost both roles by August. Now comes news that Reform's council leader, Dan Harrison - who has to play Captain Mainwaring to Boam's Private Pike - wants him out of the party altogether and has written to Richard Tice to that effect. BBC News reports: In a letter seen by the BBC, Dan Harrison criticised his former deputy council leader Joseph Boam over a social media post ...
Nation Cymru reports that a charity has urged Senedd members not to let Wales fall behind other nations, calling on them to put cats front and centre. The website says that with one in four Welsh households (24%) owning a cat, Cats Protection is using its Cat Manifesto Wales to call on MSs to make cats a priority during policy-making: The charity also highlights areas where Wales falls behind the rest of the UK. This includes cat breeding and the regulation of animal welfare establishments which are already licensed in Scotland; compulsory microchipping which is required by law in England ...
