Thursday, February 13, 2025

Nowhere to Go: Maggie Smith's first credited film role

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Yesterday we saw the first television appearance by Julie Walters . Tonight it's Maggie Smith's first credited film role, which was ...

The Joy of Six 1324

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"For so long the US has been the core UK and European ally, the backbone of NATO, the largest contributor to the WHO, and the loudest v...

Lib Dem bill challenges Labour's rabbit-in-the-headlights stance on dark money in British politics

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Embed from Getty Images Manuela Perteghellas, the Liberal Democrat MP for Stratford-upon-Avon, yesterday tabled a private member's bill ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Julie Walters' first screen appearance is on YouTube - and Don Warrington is in it too

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A thousand thanks to the Classic British Telly YouTube account - like and subscribe - for posting this television play from 1975 Julie Walt...

District council offices to host banking hub for Market Harborough

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Market Harborough will have a banking hub by the end of this month, reports the Leicester Mercury . While the search for its permanent home ...
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Politicians on children swimming in sewage

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Embed from Getty Images Here's the latest from Tameside Radio : A Tameside councillor married to disgraced MP Andrew Gwynne joked about ...

Private Eye is still raising young men to run the British Empire

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I'm fast coming to the conclusion that Private Eye's Literary Review is written by the idiot grandson of someone Ian Hislop was at p...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The Making of Gone to Earth 2

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A second behind-the-scenes video from the film shot by Powell and Pressburger in the Shropshire hills and released in 1950. Local extras are...

Voters think Ed Davey would make a better prime minister than Farage or Badenoch

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Who do Britons think would make the best prime minister? Keir Starmer vs Kemi Badenoch Starmer: 31% Badenoch: 20% Keir Starmer vs Nigel Fara...
Monday, February 10, 2025

The surprisingly complicated history of Highbury and Islington

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Jago Hazzard gives a thorough and entertaining history of this long-neglected, but now thriving, London station. I too have stood beside the...

The Joy of Six 1323

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Hannah Forsyth surveys the history of the commercialisation of higher education and concludes: "Universities need to be democratic in ...

Generate your own Penguin Classics cover

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  It's easy to do and it's here .
Sunday, February 09, 2025

Was Lucy Letby let down? What happens next?

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In another of his informative videos, Alan Robertshaw looks at how Lucy Letby's case now stands and at the role of the expert witness mo...

Endangered frog dads travel 7,000 miles to 'give birth'

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  BBC News hops away with out Headline of the Day Award.

Jethro Tull: Pibroch (Cap in Hand)

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It's the summer of 1977. England are regaining the Ashes under Mike Brearley, and Songs from the Wood by Jethro Tull is the best album I...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

The Joy of Six 1322

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"Like in all families, there will be differences and even outright conflicts; still, its members feel the bonds of their family resembl...
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Friday, February 07, 2025

Layla Moran calls on government to stand up to Trump over Gaza

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Interviewed here on The News Agents podcast, Layla Moran calls on the government to take a stand against Donald Trump's plans for the re...
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The last Tsar of Russia gave Sandy Campbell a pair of field glasses

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When I was 12 I could recite the Romanov Tsars of Russia in their correct order. My enthusiasm for Russian history was kindled by Robert Mas...
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The Making of Gone to Earth 1

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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film of Mary Webb's novel Gone to Earth was released in 1950. The Stiperstones shot in Technicolo...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

Ronald McDonald and the myth of the all-powerful Nimby

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The habitués of the Westminster village live in a world where it takes only one Nimby with a petition to stop a housing estate. A story in t...