From the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966).
Ben Quinn explains how the National Trust fought back against the culture warriors: "When it comes to disinformation, [Celia] Richardson speaks of taking 'a broken windows approach' - borrowing from the criminology theory that addressing low-level problems creates an atmosphere that discourages larger ones." "From the 19th to 20th century, children were physically removed from their homes and separated from their families and communities, often without the consent of their parents. The purpose of these schools was to strip Native American children of their Indigenous names, languages, religions and cultural practices." Rosalyn R. LaPier says Joe Biden's apology for the ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Welcome to the 133rd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at what early post-Budget polling says, carefully avoiding talking about any impact on voting intention scores (no matter how tempting that is for Lib Dems). Then it's a summary of the latest national voting intention polls and a round-up of party leader ratings, followed by, for paid-for subscribers, 10 insights from the last week's polling and analysis.. Find out more by reading this edition of The Week ...
I came across the McPeake family through the obituary of Francis McPeake. He was its third generation of celebrated folk musicians, so was known as Francis III. His grandfather (Francis I) and father (Francis II) are playing the pipes here, and his uncle is one of the harpists. The obituary gives some family history: The first piping McPeake was Francis I, who learned to play from John O'Reilly, a blind piper. Francis I won competitions and in 1910 attended the Pan-Celtic Congress in Brussels. At this time, there were very few pipers in Ulster and Francis's rarity was enhanced by ...
Labour's housing secretary may have set up an inter-ministerial group on homelessness and rough sleeping to create a long-term plan to end the 'shameful' crisis facing the new government, but she would do well to look to her own cabinet colleagues first, to get things off on the right foot, without undermining her policy objectives. This is because, as the Observer reports, low-income renters will continue to struggle to afford housing costs after Rachel Reeves's decision to freeze the amount of housing benefit they receive in the budget, placing many of them in danger of losing their accommodation altogether and ...
With grateful thanks to Jim Glover, some superb photos of the West End after dark ...
