From Spitting Image to The Crown – How King Charles has been portrayed on screen Film and TV have focused on his marriage to Diana along with his relationship with the Queen Consort Evening Standard · May 4, 2023
Keir Starmer will no longer scrap tuition fees. Just what does his Labour party stand for? No leader of a major party has so comprehensively junked their leadership platform in British democratic history, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023
Starmer goes quantum with Schrödinger’s tuition fees Labour leader says they will be both going and staying – and he can’t say fairer or unfairer than that The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2023
OPINION - Keir Starmer U-turns on axing university tuition fees On the face of it, Tuesday has been another red letter day for intergenerational unfairness. New data from estate agency Savills finds that the over-50s now own more than three-quarters of the nation’s property wealth. At the same time, the man favoured to be the next prime minister has U-turned… Evening Standard · May 2, 2023
Local elections: Double digit vote share win could show Labour on path to No10 Polling guru Professor Sir John Curtice pointed to both Tony Blair and David Cameron, who secured wins of more than 10% over their rival ruling party in local elections before they entered Downing Street Daily Mirror · May 1, 2023
Double-digit vote share in local elections ‘could indicate Labour government’ Polling expert Sir John Curtice said Tony Blair and David Cameron both secured local council vote share wins of more than 10% before becoming PM. The Independent UK · May 1, 2023
Steady progress in the local elections is not enough. Labour needs a knockout blow Keir Starmer needs to convert poll leads to council clean sweeps to show his party is on the road back to power The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023
After the fall of Richard Sharp, the next BBC chair must not be another political crony The public interest requires an open and scrupulous process to find the person best suited to perform an important role in our national life The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023
I’ll be bolder than Tony Blair on public service reform, pledges Keir Starmer The party would go “further than Blair on public services, further than the Tories in the private sector,” Sir Keir told said. The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2023
‘I’ll be bolder than Blair on public service reform,’ says Keir Starmer Leader pledges a radical, reforming Labour government with aid to first-time buyers and a revamp of tuition fees The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2023
On my radar: Sheena Patel’s cultural highlights The writer and director on a blockbuster biography of Jean Rhys, Steve McQueen’s Grenfell film and the car crash brilliance of US comedy Search Party The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2023
Rupert Murdoch’s talent for ‘the long game’ will see him through his annus horribilis A costly court settlement, the firing of his kingmaker-in-chief, a messy divorce... and ‘Succession’: the tycoon is enduring a torrid year, writes Nick Hilton. Will it finally erode the power of his empire? The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2023
Northern Ireland man saves the day for Senator George Mitchell after airline loses his luggage Paul O’Hara's quick action allowed Senator Mitchell to participate in events marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement Belfast Live · Apr 28, 2023
Coronation guest list: A who’s-who of everyone invited to King Charles’ big day Attendees for today’s ceremony include world leaders, foreign dignitaries, and members of the public. Emma Loffhagen charts who has — and hasn’t — made the cut Evening Standard · Apr 27, 2023
The Conversation · Apr 27, 2023 Why the Turner prize shortlist is a cultural barometer of our political times The UK’s biggest prize for contemporary art is back. The 2023 Turner prize shortlist has been announced featuring British artists Jesse Darling, Rory Pilgrim, Ghislaine Leung and Barbara Walker.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2023 Rishi Sunak refuses to apologise for UK slave trade or to pledge reparations PM says ‘trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward’ in response to Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Evening Standard · Apr 26, 2023 London nightclubs battle for late licenses to keep dancefloors alive Printwords in Surrey Quays is closing this weekend
The Independent UK · Apr 24, 2023 ‘Film sets can be a hierarchical, beastly, power-abusing structure’: Bertie Carvel on Hollywood, typecasting and Dalgliesh As Carvel returns to his role as the poet-detective in the Channel 5 drama, he tells Tom Murray about portraying a grieving man while experiencing loss in his own life
Daily Record · Apr 23, 2023 Angela Rayner: People need political change to give them second chance I had Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail, the Ashton-under-Lyne MP said people are desperately in need of that same sort of political change to improve their lives.
Glasgow Live · Apr 22, 2023 The time when a top UK Government advisor wanted Celtic and Rangers to swap shirts and play in Belfast The match was proposed by Alastair Campbell and was to be played to drum up support during the final days of the Good Friday Agreement referendum.
Belfast Live · Apr 21, 2023 Catering for the Clintons is 'a career highlight' for enterprising Lisburn twins "It was fabulous for a small family business such as ourselves within Northern Ireland to be recognised in this way."
Belfast Live · Apr 19, 2023 Good Friday Agreement Gala Dinner told: Northern Ireland can never go back to its violent past The gathering came as the Stormont Assembly remains effectively collapsed due to a DUP boycott
Daily Mirror · Apr 19, 2023 Tony Blair feared Queen would be killed by acrobat at Millennium Dome New Year's Eve party A documentary tells how trapeze artists were flying above the then Labour PM, the late monarch and husband Prince Philip on New Year’s Eve 1999
Daily Mirror · Apr 19, 2023 Labour vows to bring back Tony Blair-style NHS targets to bring down waiting times Keir Starmer accused the Tories of presiding over a "broken" system and said his team would focus on tackling long waits
The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2023 How UK governments from Major to Johnson tried to tackle obesity Successive administrations have produced hundreds of policies to solve public health threat since 1990