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She could defuse a dangerous or tense situation in the Chamber, and transform the snarls of MPs into gusts of laughter.

TOM UTLEY: What can we expect, in an age when T-shirts fly off the shelves at Labour Conferences, emblazoned with the slogan: 'Never kissed a Tory'?

It is over twenty years since the final collapse of the left-wing Liverpool Labour council of 1983-6. Through that council, the avowedly Marxist “Militant Tendency” had the leadership of a mass workers’ movement which could have shaken or defeated the government. Arguably it marked the highest point ever (so far) of active mass influence for would-be revolutionary Marxists in Britain, higher than anything achieved by the Communist Party when it was a revolutionary party in the 1920s.

From the blog of Diana Johnson at Jewish News

Died: March 6, 2021. NIKKI van der Zyl, who has died aged 85, played a vital but unacknowledged part in one of the best-remembered scenes in 20th-century film history. In the first James Bond film, Dr No (1962), it was her voice that issued forth from the bikini-clad form of Ursula Andress, whose own tones were judged “not exotic enough”, as she emerged onto a Jamaican beach, under the intrigued gaze of Sean Connery in his debut as 007. A specialist in dubbing – or “revoicing”, to use her preferred term – van der Zyl stood in vocally for several leading ladies in subsequent ...