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3 giorni fa · In 2018, Grant returned to television screens after 25 years, as Jeremy Thorpe in the BBC One miniseries A Very English Scandal, which marked his second collaboration with director Stephen Frears. The miniseries, and in particular Grant, were widely and highly praised.
1 giorno fa · Transgender rights in the United Kingdom have varied significantly over time, with transgender Britons facing certain social challenges not experienced by non-trans individuals. These include various laws and public attitudes in regards to identity documents, as well as anti-discrimination measures used by or pertaining to transgender people ...
5 giorni fa · The inevitable second election of 1974 was generally marked by despondency and apathy on all sides; the only light relief provided by Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe’s hovercraft sinking off the Isle of Wight. After the election Wilson’s drinking continued to spiral out of control.
4 giorni fa · Whereas Britain in Europe was a well-endowed and highly professional organisation chaired by Labour’s home secretary Roy Jenkins and supported by a strong cross-party coalition of political heavyweights like Ted Heath and Jeremy Thorpe, the ‘National Referendum Campaign’ by contrast seemed like an ad-hoc, amateurish, and ...
2 giorni fa · I heckled the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe in 1974 on the steps of 10 Downing Street (then open to all) as he went in to discuss a coalition with Ted Heath.
1 giorno fa · The great nineteenth British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.” When a later British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his Cabinet in July 1962, in what became known as the Night of the Long Knives, Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe wryly commented – in a clever paraphrasing of St John’s ...
1 giorno fa · The issue, WW, is not whether or not she is "right" according to your theology, or that of your teachers, or that of the Most Reverend Jeremy Scunn-Thorpe DD, but whether she believes it as part of her religious doctrine. And whether the State can legitimately punish her as a criminal for stating her belief.
