If you enjoyed The Death of Stalin or the television adaptation of Tinker Tailor Solder Spy, you will enjoy Conclave - it's another film about power and hierarchy in a very male organisation. In this one, the cardinals meet to choose a new Pope, and politicking, corruption and violence ensue. Conclave threatens to veer into Judge John Deed country when Ralph Fiennes, as Cardinal Lawrence, turns detective, but stops short of that line. And Fiennes plays the scene where he is overcome with grief on finding the late Pope's glasses well, but Jean Alexander did it better when she found ...
Mon 2nd
18:49
Matthew Taylor's great grandmother funded Aleister Crowley, 'The Wickedest Man in the World'
Liberal England takes a deep breath: Matthew Taylor - that's Baron Taylor of Goss Moor, who was Liberal and then Liberal Democrat MP for Truro and then Truro and St Austell between 1987 and 2005 - was adopted as a baby. (His adoptive parents were the screenwriter Ken Taylor and his wife.) In 2008 Matthew traced his he traced his birth mother, Margaret Harris. She was the daughter of the prominent New Zealand businessman Sir Jack Harris, and the granddaughter of the former Liberal chief whip Sir Percy Harris. Sir Percy sat for Harborough between 1916 and 1918, and for ...
Mon 2nd
10:18Lord Bonkers' Diary: Dominic Sandboy's 'What My Housemaster Told Me About The Seventies'
I love happy endings and I expect you do too. No doubt there will be more from Lord Bonkers in the new year. Sunday Over a post-service Amontillado, I try to persuade the Revd Hughes to stand for Archbishop of Canterbury. He's never happier than when on his hind legs, and would look good in the frocks, but I fear my blandishments fall on stony ground. After the roast beef and Yorkshire p., I hunker down in my library. I can't get on with Dominic Sandboy's 'What My Housemaster Told Me About the Seventies', but a telephone call brings good ...
If, like me, you've been an observer of American politics over the decades, one thing that is glaringly obvious is the amount of money that washes through the system, paying for advertising, cadres of professional staff and all of the paraphernalia that make electoral politics increasingly a game for the wealthy or those with access to the wealthy. One candidate in a Senate or Gubernatorial race can, if they're unlucky, spend as much as the British political parties combined in a General Election campaign. We already have cause for concern over the influence of a small number of multi-millionaires on ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 2024 Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from its westmost end (in cul-de-sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new housing development until November 2025. Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until April 2025 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until April 2025 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until ...
One of the more bizarre claims during the 2016 referendum campaign was that leaving the EU would enable us to invest £350m a week into the NHS. In fact not only has that sum failed to materialise but the ongoing cost of our divorce continues to mount. The Independent reports that Britain has set aside more than £10bn for post-Brexit payments to the EU as the UK continues sending billions to Brussels despite leaving the bloc years ago. The paper adds that to cover the cost of the UK's divorce from Europe, the government has accounted for £10.6bn in future ...
