Peter Walker

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Sadiq Khan made a peer by Starmer Mayor of London elevated to House of Lords in one of the Prime Minister’s final acts in office
He had already resolved to leave New Zealand after discovering his casting file at the national broadcasting company. “Could be all right in homosexual roles” was the only note scribbled next to his name. “I wasn’t offended,” he said. “I just knew that it wasn’t going to be a big career. People weren’t writing a lot of homosexual roles in New Zealand.”
Yet Neill quietly busied himself, burrowing under the character’s fragile masculinity: “His faults are manifest. But, of course, it’s the other dimensions you can bring to a character that give them depth and interest and, with luck, some humanity… I felt [that] instead of the usual six or seven layers of skin, he only has two. He is raw, tender and vulnerable. And there is pathos to be found in someone like that. That pathetic quality has a comic dimension as well.” Boosted by Hunter’s Oscar win, the film made $140m off a $7m budget; it also won the Cannes Palme d’Or, making Campion the first woman ever to win the prize. For Neill, it was a pinnacle: “It sits on my funny old CV like a medal on my chest… I was there in an important feminist film. I was there on the front line in an important New Zealand film. Neither of these labels does the film justice. It’s a work of art. And look, that tiny little figure in the fabric – see down there on the right – that’s me. It’s a film that will always have a place in cinema history. And I served in it.”
Kemi Badenoch The Conservative Party is for serious people, not a retirement home for failed politicians I am building a team that can run the country and deliver radical change in the 2030
Farage will win over 50% of the vote in Clacton - Reform chairman Lee Anderson
Following Nigel Farage’s decision to resign and trigger a by-election in Clacton, Liberal Democrat Leader, Ed Davey, said: "If this by-election does go ahead now, we are calling on all parties to stand aside and refuse to give oxygen to Farage’s vanity project. "But the Government should just say no to Farage’s ego-trip and block his resignation until the Standards Commissioner has finished investigating him. "The people of Clacton should have all the facts before they cast their votes."
oseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter · 6h Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA? Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump
How the grammar school rat race left the white working class behind The rise of the 11-plus tutoring industry has reshaped the classroom, with profound consequences for social mobility
The hounding of Nigel Farage and his family over their personal finances and living arrangements is a transparent attempt by established power - in the government and the media - to disable Reform because of the threat the party poses to their privileges. All these attacks haven’t revealed a single incidence of wrongdoing. They’re playing the man and not the ball. The British public will see that, and see it is unfair, and it won’t work.
James Innes-Smith The last thing drivers need is cyclists snitching on us to the authorities As well as scrutiny from inside and outside our cars, bicycle-mounted busybodies are policing minor infractions
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Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
Keir has given huge service to our country and I want to thank him for his leadership and dedication during such a challenging period. His decision marks the beginning of a transition and it is important that this process is conducted in an orderly and responsible way. I will put myself forward as part of this process. The country expects stability, seriousness and a continued focus on the issues that matter most and that is what it will get. As we move forward, our priority must be to work together to get the country back to where we all want it to be. People want to see progress on economic growth, cost of living, public services, housing and opportunities for the next generation. Political change should never distract from the responsibility to improve people's lives. The Labour movement has always been at its strongest when it looks forward with confidence and purpose. This is what we will do from here and we will make sure this transition is a positive process of renewal for our party and our country.
CAMILLA LONG Labour’s doomed unless it stops throwing voters under a bus on immigration
Dia Chakravarty Yes, Brexit did deliver an extra £350m a week for the NHS In this five part series, Dia Chakravarty talks to senior Vote Leave figures about how Britain is faring outside the EU.
Essentially what has happened is that the decaying political establishment has imported millions of migrants from alien cultures that are entirely incompatible with the British way of life. Those migrants have colonised large parts of our country, and live their lives how they choose to do so because our authorities are too frightened of being called racist to challenge them. That has meant attitudes have flourished and spread which, in short, treat women and non-Muslims like shit. And yes, I do mean that. Conservative, Labour and Reform politicians are all directly responsible for this vast importation. Personally, I will never forgive anyone responsible. Vulnerable working class white girls were treated like a piece of meat. Raped, abused, tortured, murdered. It was a racial attack, and it was a coordinated attack. All across Britain. They targeted these girls because they were vulnerable, they were young, they were white. Until the political class accepts that fact, nothing will EVER change. These men do not live by the same rules as us - it is all beyond evil. And this is a coordinated network of organised crime right across the country. It is not random groups of scumbags doing this. It is a network. Organised. Ruthless. Efficient. It is an industry. This is not homegrown. We imported it. We welcomed it. Embraced it. We continue to do so. That was a choice. Reversing it is also a choice. One we will make.
White supremacists fund Rupert Lowe’s party Donors to Restore Britain include campaigner who founded group calling for expulsion of every non-white and Jewish person
They’re Conservative, Vote Republican, and Love America. The Texas GOP Wants Them to Leave. Muslim delegates at the party’s convention faced multiple attempts to eject them from the premises—at one point, they were told to leave the country.
Jane Kelvey: As far as we were concerned, it wasn't an incident until the gunfire started.
hen there was the language. “About 80% speak [Arabic] and that even affects on-field performance. When I started, I played the best players to their positions and strengths but then I realised some couldn’t speak the language so there was no communication; what I’ve done lately is pretty much English-speaking players on the left side of the field and Arabic on the right. And a centre-back and central midfielder who speak both so we can get the communication across, all on the same page.”
omTugendhat · 22h I’m in Dulwich. One of the more expensive areas of London, supposedly a global city, and I’m getting worse mobile phone reception that I did in Kabul a decade ago. I pay for two contracts: @O2 and @EE and neither is reliable so I can’t work. Mobile phones are useless in vast areas of Britain and have got worse. You can never work on a train, unlike in France. But we’re spending £4.5 billion in bike lanes and crossings. This government is prioritising virtue signalling vanity projects when we need infrastructure urgently.
Case in point: the Prime Minister just said defence is "a number one priority". Growth was meant to the number one priority, is it still? There's not enough money for defence, but today the Government announced £4.5 BILLION for walking and cycling. Make choices. Decide. Lead.