Good news: you can watch the 1948 film No Room at the Inn online. And it's the 90-minute version that Talking Pictures TV has shown - there used to be a shorter version online, but that disappeared. The only downside is that it's on a Russian website, but my antivirus software is happy for me to watch it. You may recall I got very interested in this remarkable film two or three years ago, in the the harder-hitting play it was based on and in its star Freda Jackson. The play was first put on in the spring of 1945 ...
My overwhelming emotion in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is despair. My crushing depression is not caused just by the attempted assassination. It has been triggered by the host of events that led up to and followed the shooting in Pennsylvania. It started with the Republicans thirst for power at any price. Between 1933 and 1995 they were the minority party in the House of Representatives for all but four years. Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich had the answer. He embraced wedge politics by unjustifiably labelling Democrats as "traitors," "communists," or "un-American". Republicans were "patriots," and the ...
Here at Liberal Democrat Voice, we've made a point over the years of covering maiden speeches of new Liberal Democrat Parliamentarians and, with a huge new cadre of MPs elected on 4 July, you can expect a lot of those in the coming weeks. But, at the other end of the building, there are retirements and, as part of the arrangement for a retiring peer, there is an opportunity to make a valedictory speech. On Friday, Judith Jolly made hers after more than thirteen years in the Lords, having served as a Government Whip in the final years of the ...
The Gallup team polling Britons during the Second World War,
Today's Guardian has an article on the last hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords. Very interesting, but my eye was caught by a note at the end: This article was amended on 20 July 2024. The Duke of Norfolk is not a descendant of Queen Elizabeth I as stated in an earlier version.
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The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the illegality of Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinia...
On 30 December 2022, the UN General Assembly passed resolution A/RES/77/247 in which it asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to opine on two questions: First, what are the legal consequences arising from the violation of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination by Israel's prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 (OPT), including measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and from its adoption of related discriminatory legislation and measures? Second, how do these Israeli policies and practices affect the legal status of the occupation, ...
Embed from Getty ImagesYou can see Jo's evidence in two videos - one and two - on YouTube, but for some reason they are age-restricted so you'll have to watch them there. In that second video she is followed after 20 minutes or so by the former Post Office chief executive Dame Moya Greene, whose comments got press coverage too.
From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee : Change Minds - Exploring stories from Dundee's asylums An exhibition in Dundee Central Library, Wellgate Centre, open until Saturday 3rd August. This fascinating exhibition looks at what life was like in Tayside asylums in the 19th century. The exhibition was created by the participants in a National Lottery Heritage Fund project led by the University Archives called Change Minds. This unique heritage and creative wellbeing project encouraged people with mental health challenges to use historical archives to research and develop creative responses to the lives of asylum patients ...
