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Time to come home, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle Hedgehog repatriation | Boris Johnson blimp | Scottish referendum | Electrifying Jersey | Steamed up over cooling towers | Post-Covid uses for a visor A hedgehog in New Zealand. Photograph: Donald Iain Smith/Getty A hedgehog in New Zealand. Photograph: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Letters Mon 10 May 2021 12.32 EDT Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 13.26 EDT New Zealand aims to eradicate the humble hedgehog, introduced by British settlers (Killing machines: humble British hedgehog causes havoc in New Zealand, 8 May). This is a golden opportunity for the UK to set ...

Time to come home, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle Letters © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Donald Iain Smith/Getty New Zealand aims to eradicate the humble hedgehog, introduced by British settlers (Killing machines: humble British hedgehog causes havoc in New Zealand, 8 May). This is a golden opportunity for the UK to set up a repatriation scheme to boost the declining indigenous population. It would be a vote-winner, especially among Beatrix Potter fans. © Photograph: Donald Iain Smith/Getty A hedgehog in New Zealand. Sam White Lewes, East Sussex • The Boris Johnson blimp see...

Family watching television, 1958. Photograph by Evert F. Baumgardner. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. A few years ago I had a conversation with a close friend of mine about the experience of watching older films on TV with my parents. I’d be sitting there, deeply involved with something by John Ford or Sam Peckinpah or King Vidor, and my father would make a comment about the color of the military uniforms being incorrect, or the fact that it looked like it was clearing up outside. These remarks were made in such a way that a response was ...

/ Roger Livesey as Torquil MacNeil (left) and Wendy Hiller as Joan Webster in "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945). Each year, cable network Turner Classic Movies puts on a film festival in a movie palace in Los Angeles. This year, the TCM Classic Film Festival, which runs from May 6 through May 9, is online. For KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, who teaches film and television at CU Denver, it’s a chance to see some exceptional films. It never makes sense to me that animation should look like the world we actually live in. Animators can imagine life on a different plane. In the great cartoons...

The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells How four generations of one American family are a synecdoche of the decline of the conservative movement. Kris Connor/Getty Images In The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a classic 1943 film that traces, in vaguely allegorical fashion, half a century’s evolution in England’s national character, the actress Deborah Kerr plays a series of roles that represent changing incarnations of the ideal British woman. Were a similar technicolor romance to portray America’s national character over the past seven decades, the right would be represented by a ...