Like the characters who wear several layers of clothes even though it’s a hot summer in 1833 in Baile Beag, an Irish speaking community in Donegal about to have a new civilisation and language imposed on them by the English, director Ian Rickson’s production of Brian Friel’s Translations (1980) is ...
This is a full list of MPs who voted to remove the guarantee of a hot meal from the bellies of a million children from lower income families in England. Theresa May is ploughing ahead with changes to free school meals, childcare vouchers and free childcare as part of the ...
Richard Linklater’s latest film is a sequel, of sorts, to Hal Ashby’s 1971 great, The Last Detail, which starred a young Jack Nicholson. That film was concerned with questions around the ideas of legacy & impermanence, and Last Flag Flying continues this tradition, whilst also being shot through with a ...
This is a full list of the MP’s who voted against an amendment to end the public sector pay cap imposed since 2010 and halt further emergency services cuts. Last night Theresa May survived the first test of her slim minority government, defeating a Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor On Monday night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to reject a plan for Britain to accept 3,000 unaccompanied Syrian child refugees have ended up in mainland Europe without a parent or guardian. The amendment had been proposed by Labour’s Lord Dubs, who himself arrived ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The House of Lords was not able to halt a £30-a-week cut to disability benefits forced through by the Government. Charities warned the cut to (ESA) Employment & Support Allowance would make it more difficult for disabled people to find work and many already struggle to ...