A second behind-the-scenes video from the film shot by Powell and Pressburger in the Shropshire hills and released in 1950. Local extras are paid in cash. David Farrar rides his horse. Jennifer Jones relaxes. Esmond Knight, playing her father, ropes her in to carry a coffin. Michael Powell helps manhandle a wind machine up a hill. At the end, Cyril Cusack prepares to baptise Jones at Lords Hill Chapel above Snailbeach on the Stiperstones. The music's nice, but they really should have used this.
Who do Britons think would make the best prime minister? Keir Starmer vs Kemi Badenoch Starmer: 31% Badenoch: 20% Keir Starmer vs Nigel Farage Starmer: 36% Farage: 26% Keir Starmer vs Ed Davey Starmer: 24% Davey: 16% Kemi Badenoch vs Nigel Farage Badenoch: 22% Farage: 22%... pic.twitter.com/EchPOpSMIb — YouGov (@YouGov) February 10, 2025 There's good news for the Liberal Democrats and their leader in a new opinion poll from YouGov: voters think Ed Davey would make a better prime minister than Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch. You can see the details above. But as London Economic explains, the poll is ...
One of the oddest things about British and American politics is that it remains acceptable to politicians and right-wing commentators to call for cuts in overall taxation without specifying what cuts in spending programmes should accompany them. After successive Republican Administrations in the USA that have cut taxes and then found it difficult to make comparable reductions in spending programmes, the Trump Administration is at least being 'honest' in publicly slashing major federal programmes - through dishonest in suggesting that tariffs will provide a generous new stream of revenue. In the UK the Mail and the Telegraph, and the Conservative ...
Last night Gateshead Lib Dem council group met to discuss, among other issues, the forthcoming council budget. We received a briefing from the head of finance and the chief executive, both useful contributions to the discussion. No decisions have yet been taken on the budget by the group (the budget will be voted on at full council on 20th February.) There will be further discussions by the
On Sunday 9th February, Gateshead Lib Dems were in Chowdene ward for an action day. The aim was to deliver our latest Focus across the entire ward. Target achieved. The ward will have new boundaries in the local elections in May next year. A chunk of neighbouring Low Fell will be added to Chowdene, making the ward an interesting battle.Throughout the day, 22 members helped out. Free lunch
Those of us who know of Henry George and his "Single Tax" on land values may not know that he was also against tariffs. I didn't until in 1998 I was appointed Chief Executive at the Henry George Foundation (HGF) of Great Britain and learned that it was part of a federation of such bodies called The International Union of Land Value Taxation and Free Trade (or "The IU" for short). The same year ALTER was founded to revive a Land Campaign in the Lib Dems. I was reminded how George's thinking linked tax and tariffs when reading a piece ...
In Part 1, I introduced some ideas about how we beat populism, focusing on immigration. Today, I am going to look at the NHS, the economy and our political system. Saving the NHS from Populist Scare Tactics The NHS is under siege, and the populists love it. They use its struggles to push their own agenda, claiming that the solution is to privatise services or cut back on waste. But the NHS isn't failing because of inefficiency or because too many people are using it. It is failing because governments have underfunded it for years, forcing doctors and nurses to ...
The Independent publishes an analysis of a petition calling for a U-turn on Rachel Reeves' controversial proposal to apply inheritance tax to farms that seeks to identify the Labour MPs under the most pressure to revolts against the measure. They say that on Monday, hundreds of protesting farmers blocked Whitehall before MPs entered Parliament to debate the petition: Under the chancellor's plan, a 20 per cent inheritance tax rate will be introduced on farms worth more than £1 million from April 2026. But it has sparked a furious backlash in farming communities and created a problem for many newly-elected Labour ...
Our revised joint weekly ward surgeries take place tonight. This week they are as follows : Blackness Library (Tuesdays 5pm - every week during school term time) Harris Academy reception area (2nd Tuesday of each month at 5.45pm during school term time) All welcome - no appointment necessary!
