Find this and watch this, is my advice.
MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (2024)
It’s presented, narrated & exec produced by arguably their biggest fan — MARTIN SCORSESE.
I'm on my way to Palermo, where the first Ivy Compton-Burnett scholarship is being launched at the Palazzo Butera. I'm thrilled and honoured to have been asked to be a part of this by the Compton-Burnett family. It's wonderful that some very, very distinguished admirers of Ivy
A senior Labour source has said Andy Burnham would be Labour’s first female prime minister in “all but sex”.
If Burnham is worried about gender optics, @suzanne_moore has the solution ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/2…
EXCL: Dr Zubir Ahmed has been in talks with Andy Burnham’s team about the possibility of taking up the role of Health Secretary.
Ahmed resigned as a minister in May with the intention of backing Wes Streeting for the leadership. While the move clearly backfired at first, he
The British people who have swapped their stiff-upper lip for emotional incontinence, displayed at its worst after Princess Diana’s death,
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
🚨Olly Robbins to return under Burnham - favourite to replace Powell as National Security Adviser
🚨Purnell backs PM’s department
🚨Burnham saw how many MPs came to meet him and said: ‘Blimey!’
🚨Why Burnham is Labour’s ‘first female PM’
🚨His plan, in short: ‘Levelling Oop’
Before America was born, The Spectator was already shaping the nation.
George Washington kept 6 of copies of the original Spectator at Mount Vernon.
Benjamin Franklin copied & memorised every issue.
Jefferson & Adams read it too. It’s no exaggeration to claim that The
“Are we on the side of the apes or the angels?
... I believe that we should be on the side of the angels. Uphold rules, uphold order, uphold alliances.”
@michaelgove believes the rules-based order must be defended, despite weaknesses in international institutions today.
What
EXCL: Some former Tory MPs applying to be candidates at the next election will be rejected by Kemi Badenoch as she seeks a major break from the party of the past.
More than 2,000 people have now put their names forward to stand as Conservatives, as the party prepares for the
By the end of this year, Britain will have had (at least) seven prime ministers in the past decade – and more than 700 recommendations on how to stop the ongoing scandal in NHS maternity services. None of which have – as yet – been implemented.
The Ockenden review into maternity