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Older citizens have contributed to society for decades, and many rely on the state pension Many older people are dependent on the state pension. Photograph: Kirsty OâConnor/PA Many older people are dependent on the state pension. Photograph: Kirsty OâConnor/PA Sun 18 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT Will Hutton lumps pensioners together, equating us all with a wealthy elite (âEnding pension lock is a start, but thereâs no easy fix to the yawning generation gapâ, Comment). We are not all wealthy with the perks Hutton sets out and many are dependent on the state pension, one of the l...
Such imaginative casting has long been the hallmark of dramas involving senior British politicians. Who will ever forget Rock Hudson playing Harold Macmillan, opposite Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Dorothy, or the glamour the young Clint Eastwood brought to playing the maverick, gun-toting loner Edward Heath in the Common Market blockbuster Busting Down the Doors (1973)? More recently, Gillian Anderson won awards for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. But people forget that an equally glamorous actress played her in Young Margaret (1999). Imaginative casting has long been the hallma...
Oriel controversy: Meet ‘Red Kate’, leader of the ‘People’s Republic of Worcester College’ Although she made no secret of her Left-wing views, dons were nonetheless shocked to see professor had signed up to boycott Oriel 10 June 2021 • 10:00pm Prof Kate Tunstall is the most prominent scholar to join the Oriel boycott. Lord Mendoza, the provost of Oriel, is an exception to the usual left-leaning appointments and was last year handed a Tory peerage If the Rhodes Must Fall movement was looking for a new leader, it seems they have found it in “Red Kate”. As interim provost of the...