This is television gold from the first week of Channel 4 in November 1982: the novelist Angela Carter discusses Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract. Starting with this film, Greenaway enjoyed a vogue in the 1980s. Some thought him pretentious, but his concern for images in their own right gave his work a distinctive, Continental flavour. Yet you could also say his films were very English. Drowning by Numbers, for instance, brings out something sinister that lies just below the surface of genteel Southwold. In fact, I had been on holiday in the town for a couple of days before I ...
Professor Jane Green, co-author "Red Wall, Red Herring? Economic Insecurity and Voting Intention in Britain", discusses its findings on my latest podcast episode.
[IMG: Energy Rebate graphic] More households in the Folkestone & Hythe district could soon be eligible for an energy rebate. Cabinet members have agreed on the criteria for a new discretionary scheme using £302,100 funding from the government. To date, people living in properties in council tax bands A to D (and E if in receipt of Disability Band Reduction) are being given a one-off payment of £150 to help with the increasing cost of energy bills. The Discretionary Energy Rebate Scheme means householders who fall outside this criteria as of 1 April 2022 could also get the £150 (from ...
[IMG: Adam Rowledge, Peter Gane, Roger West and Tim Prater] Folkestone and Hythe Lib Dem Chairman Adam Rowledge and Group Leader Tim Prater welcome Peter Gane and Roger West to the Liberal Democrats Two of Folkestone's most experienced councillors have announced they are ditching the Conservatives and have joined the Liberal Democrats. Peter Gane has been a Councillor for almost 35 years, and Mayor of Folkestone for 5 years. He will join the Liberal Democrat Group on Folkestone and Hythe District Council and Folkestone Town Council. Roger West has also been Mayor of Folkestone for two years, and was first ...
With the Conservative candidate in the Wakefield by-election having drawn an analogy between the party's previous MP for the seat and Dr Harold Shipman, my mind has returned to the bad doctor's equivalent from the 1950s, Dr John Bodkin Adams. Though he was acquitted of murder at the Old Bailey, the number of Eastbourne widows who changed their wills in Bodkin Adams' favour, only to expire after his next visit, leaves little doubt about what was really going on. In fact the video above suggests the evidence from the police investigation of him reveals that he may be Britain's worst ...
Golden Mallet badges are on their way to the wonderful Liberal Democrats who got the most stakeboard posters up in the elections earlier this year. Special thanks and praise to the star of them all, Cliff Woodcraft and his amazing 486. But many others contributed hugely too – thank you one and all. Lovely to get a thank you card & a little pin from the Lib Dems as one of the 'golden mallet' winners for all the stakeboards I've put up [IMG: 😌] [IMG: 🪧] [IMG: 🔶] pic.twitter.com/r6PDlC5l8Q — Cllr Tom Gordon (@tomgordonLD) June 18, 2022
Sun, 12:38: With B on her 25th birthday. https://t.co/uSOdrKMQBs Sun, 12:56: RT @BadWritingTakes: These days you can't even take part in the massacre of 175 Blackfoot Native Americans without being cancelled by the w... Sun, 14:48: RT @Eileenleft5: So cis woman here. My wife came out as trans after nearly 20 years of marriage. I had to really unlearn a lot of assumptio... Sun, 16:05: RT @Ring_Sheryl: You've probably heard On Here in the wake of Uvalde that cops have no legal duty to protect you. The case establishing tha... Sun, 18:45: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card https://t.co/7zhaz14EQA Sun, ...
Congratulations to Raymond Payne, Liberal Democrat candidate in the Oakham South ward by-election on Rutland County Council. And now by-election winner too as no other candidates were nominated. As the resigning independent councillor had been elected last time as a Conservative, this counts as a Lib Dem gain from the Conservatives (as the norm is to compare an election with the previous election result). Striking that the Conservatives couldn't manage a candidate in such a place: The Tories can't find a candidate. In Rutland. https://t.co/S6p2BGU28c — Jonathan Calder (@lordbonkers) June 18, 2022
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 20 JUNE 2022 West Marketgait (Hawkhill to Ward Road) - northbound nearside lane closure on Monday 20 June for Scottish Water ironwork repairs. Forthcoming Roadworks South Tay Street - temporary traffic lights from Monday 27 June for 4 weeks for footway works. Miller's Wynd - closed at its junction with Hawkhill for major construction works. Start date Monday 27 June for 6 months Minto Place (west leg) - closed from Monday 11 July for 5 days for carriageway resurfacing works. Pennycook Lane - closed ...
