Songs from the musicals - and, much to my husband’s alarm, trilling along them. Wonderful stuff! Them .... not me.
There’s no business like show business!...
“As for Laurel Hubbard in the women’s weightlifting event? She let all the other women do the heavy lifting while completely over-estimating her own strength. Typical bloke.” I know it’s frowned upon...
ITV. Starring the superb Rory Kinnear as Lord Lucan. I watched the first of the two episodes and was not disappointed. Excellent. A breath of fresh air. I wonder if anyone knows what happened to him?...
//£4m scheme will form part of government effort to counter subject’s reputation as elitist// https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jul/31/latin-introduced-40-state-secondaries-england A...
//Leeds City Council has launched an educational research project into tea produced in Yorkshire and Yorkshire parkin cakes over links to colonialism and the slave trade.//...
The joy of painting This is an old programme but one I’ve just happened upon. For anyone who would like to have a go at painting - or even for those who already paint - it offers a lot of great...
....top legal minds on cancel culture fear. // The report, which has been drawn up by top QC Frances Hoare with a forward by former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption, has detailed an assault on...
I read somewhere about a programme examining famous sculptures and their history. I think it’s on BBC4 but I can’t remember the title. Any ideas please anyone?...
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1758129.html I've just composed a response but can't post it because the thread, which hasn't a single answer on it yet, appears to have been closed. Many...
//BBC tennis pair Boris Becker and John Inverdale faced a volley of criticism after calling a player’s fiancée “very pretty”.// It’s sexist - apparently. What a joyless bunch the 'Woke' are!! The most...
Given all the controversy over the transgender issue and whether or not men who self-identify as women should be allowed to use women’s facilities, should we establish an accepted third gender as I...
Having received some surprising answers on the ‘Neighbours’ thread, I just wondered how many people here have had a dispute with neighbours, and if so why, and what the outcome was. I’ve never fallen...
//White working class pupils have been failed by decades of neglect in England's education system, a report by MPs says. The Education Select Committee accused the government of a lack of targeted...