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The process of selecting a new Pope.

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The process of selecting a new Pope.

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It is the funniest example of 'this is why this isn't a good electoral system' that 'the boundary commission moves 20 thousand people in Bristol around' is the small domino to 'the UK arts sector faces deepening crisis'.

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Brilliant stuff from @yuanyiz.bsky.social. thecritic.co.uk/issues/febru...

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DOCTOR WHO opinion: In 'Dragonfire' Ace is rightly dismissed for misconduct.

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DOOMWATCH is a disappointment. I suspect the reasons it's overrated are its obscurity, the place Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis hold in the history of Doctor Who, and those fanboys who get excited by pulp being political. Sadly it's slow, static & blokey. Sexist without being sexy. No DEPARTMENT S.

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A very happy birthday to Angela Eagle, now she's 64. "Politics is very, very strange, and all sorts of strange and wonderful things happen," she said once. Then she tried to run for the leadership of the Labour Party. wp.me/p6lzJb-1Qj

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On the occasion of her 50th birthday today, here's an archive piece about Katie Hopkins's attempt to be a phone-in presenter on LBC Radio. wp.me/p6lzJb-4Sc

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Nigel Kneale's 1984 makes the Giles cartoon

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What are the 'horror classics'? Having chatted about this briefly yesterday I've been pondering what might constitute the outline of a 'canon' – essential novels and stories that help us appreciate and understand the genre. So, here's a first take, after a couple of disclaimers. 👇

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"She is so beautiful, quite bewitching, as Eva Peron must have been" - Alan Clark 50 years since Margaret Thatcher became Conservative leader, here are some quotes about her from the likes of Denis Healey, Adrian Mole & Ian Wright.👇 wp.me/p6lzJb-4JL

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"To me, socialism isn’t just militant trade unionism. It is the gentle society, in which every producer remembers that he is a consumer too." Barbara Castle reflecting on the election of Margaret Thatcher to leader of the Tories, 50 years ago:👇 wp.me/p6lzJb-1Vt

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"I cannot help admitting privately, as a woman, being pleased to see that in the Tory Party, of all parties, a woman has broken through" - Shirley Williams Our @alwynturner.bsky.social is your guide to the top ten for the week Margaret Thatcher became Tory leader. wp.me/p6lzJb-5W7

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"Thatcher proved an adept knife-wielder herself in January 1975, when she had the temerity to challenge Heath for the leadership. The following month, she destroyed him in the first ballot, going on to win outright on the second". #OTD 50 years ago. wp.me/p6lzJb-1Pp

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"I understood what a precious thing this little England was, how old and kindly and comforting. The freedom of an acre of her soil was cheaply bought by the blood of the best of us." Novelist John Buchan died 85 years ago today. wp.me/p6lzJb-5c6

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I've written on blasphemy, public order and freedom of expression: thecritic.co.uk/are-we-getti...

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50 years on 11th February since Thatcher was elected as Tory leader. Why not try her recipe for a dinner party starter (on someone you don't like) kmflett.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/m...

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Judge Plus

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NOT ANOTHER ONE is now my most anticipated British politics podcast of the week. This three-parter on Margaret Thatcher is especially good on the personal factors behind the Iron Lady's rise and fall.👇

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I'll have a steak & kidney pud and a bottle of Château Thames Embankment.

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"Mungall claimed to have seen an expression in his wife’s eyes 'like an animal who needs to be put down & cannot say it'… Are we really supposed to believe that a man who feels that way about his wife is incapable of pressuring her into applying for a medically assisted suicide?" shorturl.at/JVh9l

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"I understood what a precious thing this little England was, how old and kindly and comforting. The freedom of an acre of her soil was cheaply bought by the blood of the best of us." Novelist John Buchan died 85 years ago today. wp.me/p6lzJb-5c6

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After making judicial oversight by the High Court a principal ornament of her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to encourage MPs to vote for it at Second Reading, Kim Leadbeater MP now proposes to abandon that provision www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"If you’re under the age of 18 in Britain, you can’t buy alcohol or cigarettes, go to war, do jury service, or get either plastic surgery or a tattoo... and already on some websites you can’t buy a cutlery set until you’re that age." A typically trenchant Ed West.👇 www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-case-a...

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Paul Saffer remembers the olden days of darts, when 17,000 spectators filled the Empire Pool, Wembley. All human life is here, from the Crafty Cockney to Zsa Zsa Gabor. wp.me/p6lzJb-7mJ

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"She is so beautiful, quite bewitching, as Eva Peron must have been" - Alan Clark 50 years since Margaret Thatcher became Conservative leader, here are some quotes about her from the likes of Denis Healey, Adrian Mole & Ian Wright.👇 wp.me/p6lzJb-4JL

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"To me, socialism isn’t just militant trade unionism. It is the gentle society, in which every producer remembers that he is a consumer too." Barbara Castle reflecting on the election of Margaret Thatcher to leader of the Tories, 50 years ago:👇 wp.me/p6lzJb-1Vt

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"I cannot help admitting privately, as a woman, being pleased to see that in the Tory Party, of all parties, a woman has broken through" - Shirley Williams Our @alwynturner.bsky.social is your guide to the top ten for the week Margaret Thatcher became Tory leader. wp.me/p6lzJb-5W7

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"Thatcher proved an adept knife-wielder herself in January 1975, when she had the temerity to challenge Heath for the leadership. The following month, she destroyed him in the first ballot, going on to win outright on the second". #OTD 50 years ago. wp.me/p6lzJb-1Pp

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"The 'Long Seventies' started with the aborted attempt by Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle at trade union reform in 1969 and ended with the defeat of the miners after a year-long strike in 1985." From the great Larry Elliott. www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...

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"In the good old times before the English came there were many wars, tribe against tribe, people against people..." Today we shall mostly be reading Edgar Wallace, who died 10 February 1932. wp.me/p6lzJb-5ap

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Blue Monday open.substack.com/pub/morningc...

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Thank you Talking Pictures. I have a rotten cold. This is the perfect TV cure.

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Returning to my hobby horse of 'don't just say the remarks are offensive, you do actually need to quote them', a particularly bad bit of 'we'll just use this nebulous word offensive' with the Andrew Gywnne stuff is quoting only the PG-friendly stuff explicitly with the rest described as 'offensive'.

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