The great American director Martin Scorsese has curated a series of striking but undervalued British films. It opens at the British Film Institute tomorrow and runs until the end of the month. You can find the programme on the BFI website. You could argue that Went the Day Well? and It Always Rains on Sunday have now been given their rightful place in the canon, but it's a very good selection. Scorsese was interviewed about the season for Sight and Sound by James Bell. He talks about is love of British films in general and, enticingly, of the long list ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls – indicates that party didn't feature in the polling questions separate from 'Others' or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change ...
[IMG: Copies of Bad News by Mark Pack on a shelf] Buy from Waterstones, Amazon (paperback and Kindle), Biteback (including ebook) or Bookshop.org (supports independent bookshops).* Bad News is my book about the media. (Though yes, politics and polls do feature too.) It's a popular guide that helps you make sense of the news wherever it appears – print, broadcast or online. Peppered with examples from around the world, the book turns a serious subject into an enjoyable read. Thoughtful and perceptive, Bad News is required reading for anyone who wants to get to grips with how the journalism we ...
"It was when his candidate barely succeeded in defeating Dr David Owen's hilarious "Continuing SDP Party" at the first Bootle by-election of 1990 that my old friend Lord Sutch decided to step back from the front line of politics."
Having long campaigned for road resurfacing in West Park Road, we are pleased to advise of this temporary traffic order from the City Council : Dundee City Council propose to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose of facilitating carriageway resurfacing works. The Order is expected to be in force for ten days from 2 September 2024. Its maximum duration in terms of the Act is eighteen months. The effect of the Order is to prohibit temporarily all vehicular traffic in West Park Road from its junction with Blackness Road to ...
You can tell it's the silly season when right wing newspapers have nothing better to do than lead on the removal of a picture from No. Ten Downing Street, effectively promoting the subject of that portrait to cult status much like past leaders of totalitarian countries of both the left and right. The Independent reports Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from his new grace and favour pad. The paper tells us that Starmer's biographer, Tom Baldwin said that the prime minister found the £100,000 painting, which was commissioned by Gordon Brown, "unsettling" - sparking outrage ...
