"There is a strained cosiness to modern Christmas, but beneath the lights and mulled wine lurks the black pause of the year's end. It is a time for barred doors and ghost stories. John Masefield understood these things." Alexander Poots on The Box of Delights and Deep England.Samantha Booth reveals that investors are making millions from the 'bankrupt' public SEND (Special educational needs and disability) system. "Since 2010, the supply of new trainee teachers compared with need has slowed to a trickle while the rate at which teachers are leaving the profession has continued to grow, leaving schools stuck in ...
I may dream of one day seeing thistles force their way up through the concrete, but that's not how Black Box Recorder saw things: The English motorway system is beautiful and strange, It's been there forever, it's never going to change. The band flourished around the turn of the century, and this is a track from The Facts of Life, the second of their three LPs, which was released in May 2000. Black Box Recorder consisted of Sarah Nixey, who was the singer, Luke Haines of The Auteurs, and John Moore, formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain.
United States (1) Rudy Guiliani is broke. Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss wish Trump's top legal adviser wasn't. A US court has ruled that Guiliani has ruined their lives when he publicly and falsely accused them of tampering with Georgia election ballots. This Friday a jury of eight was considering whether or not to grant their request for $43 million in damages. An award, which will almost certainly be academic. Three divorces, a lavish lifestyle and backing Donald Trump's election lie has destroyed the 79-year-old's fortune. The former Mayor of New York was a presidential candidate ...
So, Sunak has done it again. The Prime Minister's obsession with the privileges and the perks of office really sets him apart from his predecessors, and that is saying something. The Guardian reports that Rishi Sunak took a £16,000 one-way trip to Leeds on a helicopter courtesy of a firm owned by Frank Hester, the Tory megadonor, taking the total for the prime minister's donor-funded air travel to more than £100,000 this year: The prime minister once again showed his fondness for short-haul air travel as he took a helicopter from Battersea to Leeds Bradford airport last month - a ...
With thanks to SJ Bogue and Dundonian History for All, the Palais dance hall in 1937.
