#Harry Vallance

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[scotianostra]

August 4th 1870 saw the birth of the entertainer Harry Lauder in Portobello.

Harry was the eldest of seven children, Harry’s parents were John Lauder, a master potter, Porty was famous for it’s pottery works back in the day, the family moved to Derbyshire in 1882 where John Lauder was going to design china. However, he died on 20th April and they had to move to Isabella’s parents’ home in Arbroath.

When Harry left school aged about 12 he went to work in a flax mill. The family then moved to Hamilton where Harry worked in a coal mine. In 1891 he married Ann Vallance, daughter of the manager of the mine.

Harry’s fellow-workers, who whom he often sang, encouraged him to sing in local music halls. He joined a concert party and began touring, which enabled him to give up his job at the coal mine. By 1894 Harry had turned professional and was singing in London venues..

Though a few other songs contend for a place among his best, Roamin’ In The Gloamin’ seems to be the one most often remembered. and even nowadays must be one of the best known songs written in and about Scotland, come on everyone knows it;

Roamin’ in the gloamin’ on the bonnie banks o’ Clyde.

Roamin’ in the gloamin’ wae my lassie by my side.

When the sun has gone to rest,

That’s the time we love the best.

O, it’s lovely roamin’ in the gloamin.

On 28th December 1916, Harry’s only son John Lauder who was a Captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed at Pozières. Harry wrote the song “Keep Right on till the end of the Road” in memory of him. Captain Lauder was buried at Ovillers, France and his father had a memorial placed in his son’s memory in Glenbranter, the Lauder family home in Scotland.

For his many services to the war effort, Harry was knighted in 1919. Lady Lauder died in July 1927 and Harry continued to tour, sing and write songs. He retired in 1935. Apart from his songs, Harry also wrote several books and appeared in several films. He came out of retrieved in the Second World War, entertained troops in Britain and also took part in radio broadcasts.

Sir Harry Lauder died on 26th February 1950, age79.

[wankerwatch]

Lords Vote

On: Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025

Lord Roborough moved, as an amendment to the motion to approve the Regulations, at end to insert “but that this House regrets that they reduce the delinked payments to farmers at a faster rate than previously expected, undermining the viability of farm businesses and harming rural communities.” The House divided:

Ayes: 28 (75.0% Con, 14.3% DUP, 3.6% XB, 3.6% UUP, 3.6% Green) Noes: 123 (97.6% Lab, 1.6% XB, 0.8% ) Absent: ~703

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (21 votes)

Caithness, E. Coffey, B. Courtown, E. Eaton, B. Effingham, E. Fuller, L. Gascoigne, L. Goldie, B. Laing of Elderslie, B. Morris of Bolton, B. Moynihan, L. Neville-Jones, B. Nicholson of Winterbourne, B. Parkinson of Whitley Bay, L. Roborough, L. Scott of Bybrook, B. Sharpe of Epsom, L. Stedman-Scott, B. Trenchard, V. Williams of Trafford, B. Wrottesley, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)

Browne of Belmont, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L. Weir of Ballyholme, L.

Crossbench (1 vote)

Finlay of Llandaff, B.

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Elliott of Ballinamallard, L.

Green Party (1 vote)

Bennett of Manor Castle, B.

Noes

Labour (120 votes)

Adams of Craigielea, B. Alexander of Cleveden, B. Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Andrews, B. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Barber of Ainsdale, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beamish, L. Beckett, B. Berger, B. Blake of Leeds, B. Blower, B. Bousted, B. Bradley, L. Brennan of Canton, L. Brown of Silvertown, B. Browne of Ladyton, L. Campbell-Savours, L. Carberry of Muswell Hill, B. Chakrabarti, B. Chandos, V. Chapman of Darlington, B. Clark of Windermere, L. Coaker, L. Collins of Highbury, L. Crawley, B. Curran, B. Davies of Brixton, L. Debbonaire, B. Donaghy, B. Drake, B. Dubs, L. Elliott of Whitburn Bay, B. Falconer of Thoroton, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Foulkes of Cumnock, L. Glasman, L. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Gray of Tottenham, B. Griffin of Princethorpe, B. Grocott, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Harris of Haringey, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hermer, L. Howarth of Newport, L. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Hunter of Auchenreoch, B. Jones of Penybont, L. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Jones, L. Katz, L. Keeley, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Khan of Burnley, L. Kinnock, L. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Lemos, L. Leong, L. Levitt, B. Liddell of Coatdyke, B. Liddle, L. Lister of Burtersett, B. Livermore, L. Longfield, B. Mann, L. Mattinson, B. McCabe, L. Mendelsohn, L. Merron, B. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. Nye, B. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Osamor, B. Pitkeathley of Camden Town, L. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Rafferty, B. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Raval, L. Rees of Easton, L. Reid of Cardowan, L. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Rook, L. Royall of Blaisdon, B. Sahota, L. Sherlock, B. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Finsbury, L. Smith of Malvern, B. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Taylor of Bolton, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Timpson, L. Touhig, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Twycross, B. Vallance of Balham, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watts, L. Wheeler, B. Whitaker, B. Wilcox of Newport, B. Wilson of Sedgefield, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Young of Norwood Green, L. Young of Old Scone, B.

Crossbench (2 votes)

Carlile of Berriew, L. Hardie, L.

Non-affiliated (1 vote)

Austin of Dudley, L.

[minitravellers]

10 Places to Enjoy Harry Potter Moments In London

London offers several iconic locations that are closely associated with the “Harry Potter” films and books. These sites have become popular attractions for fans of the series. Here are some of the must-visit “Harry Potter” locations in London. 1. Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross Station Photo Credit: Donna Vallance Like Love London. Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross Station is a fictional location in the…

[thecraggus]

Doctor Who: Resolution (S11E11) Review

Doctor Who: Resolution (S11E11) ends up testing my resolve. #Review

The dawn of a New Year can be a time for sober, objective deliberation. A contemplation of the year just passed; its triumphs – and its follies – and, most importantly, the chance to reflect, reconsider and refresh both yourself and your work. Not that you would glean this from the current Doctor Who production team’s faltering festive offering.

More than a millennium ago, the people of the world…

[chaplinfortheages]

Harry Lauder pays another visit to Chaplin Studios in 1919, behind Harry is William Morris (of the famed William Morris Agency), second from the right studio manager Alf Reeves and wife Amy and to his right Tom Vallance brother-in-law of Harry Lauder.

[vestatilleys]

Ann Vallance and Sir Harry Lauder.

[halfwit-halfblood]

seven months into this year and i've already;

met adam kay

met my favourite author ve schwab (who i'll be seeing again this month!!!)

gone to london to see hamilton, betrayal and p!atd

went to belgium to meet my best friend for the first time

while in belgium, went to a comic con and asked questions to jason isaacs and gaten matarazzo in front of hundreds of people and didn't freak out??? at all??? somehow??? also jason said my question was like a dickens paragraph i love he

met the legend himself tan france

met kendare blake, the author of my favourite fantasy series (other than harry potter)

got a job i'd been trying to get for TWO YEARS

and now, at the end of this month, i'll be meeting ben barnes and (hopefully) alice oseman, dean atta and jess vallance too!

this year is MY. FUCKING. YEAR. i'm proud. i'm fighting my anxiety more than i ever have and more than i ever thought i could, ive been standing up for shit i believe in no matter what, i'm happier, i finally feel like i have an idea of who i am, and i'm doing it all without the toxic cunt who destroyed my 2018.

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

Current and ex-Staff Members of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - Part Three

I’m reluctant to post photos of these people, as they are far more private, but I will include their names and jobs. I also get confused with which communications secretaries are still there, and which have left, so feel free to correct me!

Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo - Nanny to Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis

Jason Knauf - Head of Communications for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Christian Jones - Deputy Communications Secretary

Charlotte Pool - Deputy Communications Secretary (used to be Assistant Communications Officer)

Katrina McKeever - Deputy Communications Secretary

Adam Vallance - Digital Communications Lead for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Sir David Manning KCVO - Part-time Advisor to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry

Lieutenant Commander David Brannigham - Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge

Antonella Fresolone - Housekeeper

Tifare Alexander - Household help

Corporal Stewart Harvey and Lance-Sergeant Stuart Hayes - Orderlies

Nick Loughran - Ex-media Advisor to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry (left in 2016)

Chief Inspector John Hourihan - Ex-chief RPO to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

[informarbem]

As máscaras podem vir a ser descartadas no verão, pelo menos em Inglaterra. Mas devem regressar no inverno, mesmo com uma população vacinada.

Os habitantes do Reino Unido podem não ter de usar máscaras durante os meses de verão. Uma proteção contra a covid-19 que deve voltar a ser necessário no outono e no inverno, defende Jenny Harries, médica da equipa de combate à pandemia do Reino Unido.

Os meses mais quentes do verão são "um período geralmente muito mais seguro, com menos necessidade de intervenções" na socialização, que pode dispensar o uso da máscara, argumentou Jenny Harries numa reunião em Downing Street, uma residência oficial do primeiro-ministro britânico, Boris Johnson.

"É bem possível que durante os meses de verão, como anunciar no ano passado, quando vemos o número de novos casos a cair, não precisemos de usar máscaras o tempo todo", disse Jenny Harries, ressalvando que estas não podem ser descartadas a longo prazo.

"À medida que entramos no outono, quando chega o inverno e passamos mais tempo dentro de casa, podemos estar sujeitos ao perigo", acrescentou a médica.

Já no início desta semana, o principal conselheiro científico do governo britânico, Patrick Vallance, alertou que as máscaras podem ser necessárias em certas situações no próximo inverno, mesmo depois de todos os adultos do Reino Unido terem sido vacinados.

Durante o "briefing", Harries argumentou, ainda, que as crianças devem evitar abraçar os avós, mesmo que tenham tomado a vacina da covid-19, "até que haja certezas do impacto da vacinação".

[scotianostra]

On 12th June 1298 William Wallace defeated Sir Aymer de Vallance, Earl of Pembroke.

Or did he? There is conflicting accounts of this Battle, or skirmish as it has also been described. By now Wallace was the most hunted man in Scotland and he must have been involved in many skirmishes, few have made it to the history books, and those that have, like this one are a bit vague.

Wiki have this encounter as happening in September 1304, but a plaque at a site called "Black Earnside" near Newburgh in Fife have today's date, hence I am plumping for this! There is a mention in English records of compensation being paid for horses lost in a flight from William Wallace at "Yrenside" another tells of a "Constable" from Dundee pursuing Wallace, but why would someone from Dundee be that far south?

My main source states that “Sir Aymer de Vallance, Earl of Pembroke, and Sir John Sieward, son of the Earl of March, landed with an army in Fife, and proceeded to burn and waste. They were met by a Scotch force under Wallace in the forest of Black Ironside, and were totally defeated."

It's not just modern historians who question whether the battle happened at all, this is from 1876...... Later historians find difficulty in reconciling the date assigned... (12 June, 1298) with other facts in Wallace's history; but Blair, (Wallace's chaplain )... distinctly states that on the 12 June 1298, the guardian of the kingdom (Wallace) vanquished the English... at Ironside..., with their general... Aylmer de Valance, Earl of Pembroke.(Information from a Book 'Relations... Arnaldi Blair, capellani',) The battle is described by Blind Harry, the minstrel. The name of Wallace's Den... immemorially attached to a deep gully on the farm of Parkhill... affords presumptive evidence of the site of the battle. (There is no good historical evidence for this battle, which apparently rests only on the authority of Blair, and Blind Harry (Henry the Minstrel).) A Laing 1876.

The people of Newburgh have marked the area with the plaque seen in the photo which is in a layby above “Wallace’s Bridge”, on the Gauldry to Newburgh road, high road above River Tay, it reads “Black Earnside 12th June 1298 On this site a major tactical battle was fought and won for Scotland by their guardian, Sir William Wallace, against the Earl of Pembroke, who was acting on the orders of his English master, Edward Plantagenet. This plaque has been erected by the people of Newburgh in recognition of the part played by their forebears in assisting Sir William Wallace in defence of our country. More details here http://ptc2506.com/featured_sites/william_wallace/battles.html

Each year on this day I try to find out more about Black Earnside, and each year I end up just going round in circles, this post shows you how difficult a job it can be at times trying to make sense of our history.

I salute the Black Earnside Tartan army who turn up each year to remember the occasion.

[wankerwatch]

Lords Vote

On: Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025

Baroness Grender moved, as an amendment to the motion to approve the Regulations, to leave out from “that” to end and to insert “this House declines to approve the draft Regulations as they accelerate the reduction of delinked payments made to British farmers; regrets the failure to establish alternative funding schemes; and calls on the Government to reinstate applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme.” The House divided:

Ayes: 54 (88.9% LD, 7.4% DUP, 1.9% UUP, 1.9% Green) Noes: 124 (97.6% Lab, 1.6% XB, 0.8% ) Absent: ~676

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Liberal Democrat (48 votes)

Addington, L. Beith, L. Benjamin, B. Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, B. Brinton, B. Bruce of Bennachie, L. Burnett, L. Campbell of Pittenweem, L. Clement-Jones, L. Dholakia, L. German, L. Goddard of Stockport, L. Grender, B. Hamwee, B. Harris of Richmond, B. Humphreys, B. Hussain, L. Kramer, B. Lee of Trafford, L. Ludford, B. Marks of Henley-on-Thames, L. Miller of Chilthorne Domer, B. Mohammed of Tinsley, L. Newby, L. Northover, B. Oates, L. Parminter, B. Pinnock, B. Purvis of Tweed, L. Razzall, L. Redesdale, L. Russell, E. Scriven, L. Sharkey, L. Smith of Newnham, B. Stoneham of Droxford, L. Storey, L. Strasburger, L. Suttie, B. Thomas of Gresford, L. Thomas of Winchester, B. Thornhill, B. Tope, L. Tyler of Enfield, B. Wallace of Saltaire, L. Wallace of Tankerness, L. Walmsley, B. Wrigglesworth, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)

Browne of Belmont, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L. Weir of Ballyholme, L.

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Elliott of Ballinamallard, L.

Green Party (1 vote)

Bennett of Manor Castle, B.

Noes

Labour (121 votes)

Adams of Craigielea, B. Alexander of Cleveden, B. Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Andrews, B. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Barber of Ainsdale, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beamish, L. Beckett, B. Berger, B. Blake of Leeds, B. Blower, B. Blunkett, L. Bousted, B. Bradley, L. Brennan of Canton, L. Brown of Silvertown, B. Browne of Ladyton, L. Campbell-Savours, L. Carberry of Muswell Hill, B. Chakrabarti, B. Chandos, V. Chapman of Darlington, B. Clark of Windermere, L. Coaker, L. Collins of Highbury, L. Crawley, B. Curran, B. Davies of Brixton, L. Debbonaire, B. Donaghy, B. Drake, B. Dubs, L. Elliott of Whitburn Bay, B. Falconer of Thoroton, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Foulkes of Cumnock, L. Glasman, L. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Gray of Tottenham, B. Griffin of Princethorpe, B. Grocott, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Harris of Haringey, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hermer, L. Howarth of Newport, L. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Hunter of Auchenreoch, B. Jones of Penybont, L. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Jones, L. Katz, L. Keeley, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Khan of Burnley, L. Kinnock, L. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Lemos, L. Leong, L. Levitt, B. Liddell of Coatdyke, B. Liddle, L. Lister of Burtersett, B. Livermore, L. Longfield, B. Mann, L. Mattinson, B. McCabe, L. Mendelsohn, L. Merron, B. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. Nye, B. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Osamor, B. Pitkeathley of Camden Town, L. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Rafferty, B. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Raval, L. Rees of Easton, L. Reid of Cardowan, L. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Rook, L. Royall of Blaisdon, B. Sahota, L. Sherlock, B. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Finsbury, L. Smith of Malvern, B. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Taylor of Bolton, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Timpson, L. Touhig, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Twycross, B. Vallance of Balham, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watts, L. Wheeler, B. Whitaker, B. Wilcox of Newport, B. Wilson of Sedgefield, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Young of Norwood Green, L. Young of Old Scone, B.

Crossbench (2 votes)

Carlile of Berriew, L. Hardie, L.

Non-affiliated (1 vote)

Austin of Dudley, L.

[kentonramsey]

We Love The Cut-Out Trend But It’s About More Than Just Sex Appeal

In a year when many of us have been wearing little but loungewear, swaddling our bodies in soft rolls of cotton or, if we’re lucky, cashmere, the trend for cut-outs feels like a bolt from the blue. If 2020 has been the year of “soft-talgia” – velour tracksuits standing in for style – then cut-outs could be read as a high-fashion riposte.

In recent collections, slices, squares and gaping holes have been crafted into clothes. Cut-outs add a sense of occasion: when Alexa Chung wanted something that was “spectacular and OTT for what was essentially a Zoom meeting” (The Fashion Awards), she went for a Christopher Kane frock with the sides carved out. On one of the January covers of Vogue, Kate Moss – no stranger to the cut-out look – has been shot wearing a pair of Versace trousers with an artful cut-out on the hip. Emma Corrin was all set to give cut-outs the royal seal of approval by wearing a holey design by Nensi Dojaka to promote The Crown, had the pandemic not put paid to that.

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While some of these cut-out designs will have been sketched long before the name Patrick Vallance entered our daily lexicon, others can be read as either a subconscious or deliberate response to a year in which trackie bottoms have reigned supreme. 

Showing skin has long been a red carpet power move. See: Angelina Jolie’s leg at the 2012 Oscars, which still has its own Twitter account. But cut-outs, more than plunging necklines or thigh-high slits, are a way to really frame parts of the body and draw attention to them. 

In many ways cut-outs feel like a highbrow take on the naked trend which has been so pervasive in recent years, with sheer frocks and bodycon in muted tones. They perform a sort of peepshow; windows onto the body. It’s incredible what a missing piece of fabric or – reframe that – an artfully placed part of the body can be used to communicate. 

Cut-outs are “playing with that issue of hiding and revealing,” Valerie Steele, a fashion historian and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, tells Refinery29. “Concealing … [is] playing – like a fig leaf it’s ambivalent, it calls attention to what it’s supposed to hide.”

“From a designer’s perspective when you have a cut-out you really have the chance to draw attention to a particular body part,” says Michaela Stark, whose work was worn by Beyoncé in the “Apeshit” video and who uses cut-outs unexpectedly and cleverly (more on this later). 

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While cut-outs might traditionally be thought of as sexy with a capital S, in recent seasons many have been embracing cut-outs that seem almost defiantly the opposite; PG-rated and innocent. At Christopher Kane triangular AW20 cut-outs made up part of the geometric pattern of a dress more Pythagoras than Paphian. London designer Ashley Williams’ AW20 collection includes a dress with a big egg-shaped hole missing from the middle, the perfect frame for one of the body’s most lustless bits: the belly button. Although, as Steele points out, the links to the placenta make it not as far removed from the erotic as you might think.

For many others cut-outs have been a way to put a more unexpected, “wonky sexy” or – dare I say it – empowered spin on designs without necessarily the emphasis on the male gaze; from Dion Lee’s taut leather cut-out dresses shaped like the leaves of a monstera plant to Maximilian Davis’ SS21 collection – a statement “that Black elegance exists” – with its slashed dresses and cut-out-tailored tops. 

The British-Indian designer Supriya Lele created a collection for SS21 that was a direct response to a year spent in trackie bottoms. As the LVMH Prize-winner recently told Vogue: “I like to show sexual confidence in the clothing and I wanted to make more of a statement of that this season because I felt so tired of wearing joggers for months.” She singles out parts of the body with a surgeon’s precision: a slice of hip here, a slither of torso there.

Bella Hadid-approved designer Nensi Dojaka’s lingerie-inspired designs are often more negative-space than anything else; architectural and strange. Drawing on fashion’s deconstructivist tendencies, Dojaka seems to be playing with the very fabric of what makes a top a top, a dress a dress, and in the process of unpicking and putting back together, she leaves plenty out, bringing focus to parts of the body that perhaps aren’t usually thought of as erogenous.

Wonky cut-outs can be just as potent as those that more strictly adhere to what we traditionally think of as sexy. While the more obviously sexy cut-out might be one that falls squarely over a traditional erogenous zone, Valerie Steele thinks that it almost doesn’t matter where a cut-out falls on the body because “skin implies nakedness and therefore, as Barthes said, eroticism is where the garment gapes, where suddenly you’re showing a flash of skin… If you cover it up and you show a piece of skin then that’s an exciting revelation.”

By bringing focus to the – often female – body, cut-outs ask questions and speak volumes about where we’re at in terms of acceptance of different shapes and sizes in fashion and beyond. It is, generally, much more “acceptable” to wear a midriff-baring dress if your body fits within the narrow limits laid out by society. 

Stark is plus-size and creates cut-out-saturated work for herself that could be read as what happens when you take wonky, sexualised cut-outs to their extreme. When she was previously working on “smaller” girls, she says, “I was trying to figure out how to make my designs more sexy and classically beautiful”. A “cutaway would be something that would actually turn the outfit into something more subtle and sexy”; a peekaboo moment. When she turned her focus on herself, it wasn’t not about being sexy but it was also about emphasising “all the parts of my body that I was insecure about.”

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Her lingerie designs bind and constrict and surreally sculpt the body. They “make you look at the part that’s the cut-out so the cut-out is so in your face and your eyes are so drawn to it – it makes it more unapologetic.” Through her work she has come to a different understanding of her own body: “I think that when I started I always knew that it was about body acceptance for myself,” she says, “and it has really helped me and the way that I view myself. Now my body is something different – it’s almost like a tool now. When I see fat I know how to make it look beautiful.”

While many of the current cut-out designs in high fashion are shown most routinely on models who fit within the limited ideals of a “model-body-shape”, there are exceptions. A cut-out-rich SS21 collection from Berlin design duo Ottolinger was worn by a cast of models of different body types to stress the universality of their work, and zany designer Collina Strada recently chose plus-size model Alva Claire for a pink dress with cutaways across different stretches of the tummy. Plus, as Stark points out, fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova, for all their sins, “actually know how to dress women amazingly and are doing cut-outs for plus-size women a lot.” 

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Stark thinks that change is also coming via women themselves: “Plus-size women are actually starting to put cut-outs in their clothes, maybe even doing DIY cut-outs… They know how to photograph themselves, they know how to work it and are leading by example and the brands are scrambling behind.” It is, she says, “one of those bubbling up effects where plus-size women are taking ownership over their bodies and saying if fashion brands don’t know how to dress me, I know how to dress me.”

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[chaplinfortheages]

Tom Vallance (Harry Lauder’s brother-in-law and manager) Harry Lauder star of the British Music Halls, Charlie Chaplin and brother Sydney, also pictured Douglas Fairbanks - Chaplin Studios, January 1918.

He was shooting “A Dog’s Life” at this time, it was Harry Lauder who inspired the title, it was originally titled “I Should Worry”

Seeing all that Charlie’s life had become, said to him: “It’s a dog’s life you’re leading these days, Charlie, a dog’s life.”

[dailynewswebsite]

Next slide please: data visualisation expert on what’s wrong with the UK government’s coronavirus charts

“For those who can’t persuade them, confuse them.” For those who watched the UK authorities’s COVID-19 briefing to announce and England-wide lockdown, you might need been reminded of this quote by Harry S Truman. Following slide after slide of maps and charts, there was rising frustration about the best way nationally essential statistics have been being offered to the general public.

Getting this stuff proper is essential. We’ve seen beforehand and on this pandemic that belief in authorities influences whether or not individuals observe public well being pointers. And in a UK survey earlier this 12 months, those that had low ranges of belief within the authorities’s capability to deal with the outbreak have been twice as more likely to suppose its response had been confused and inconsistent. Whereas a set of complicated slides received’t alone dictate how individuals behave, this stuff add up.

We don’t want excessive manufacturing values, and even a lot polish – it’s good to really feel like we’re seeing the most recent knowledge reasonably than one thing endlessly adjusted – however being understandable and looking out skilled will assist help the message. In the meanwhile, these slide decks are paying homage to rushed convention displays pieced collectively whereas the earlier presenter was talking. Right here’s how you can repair that.

Clarify your working

Maybe the most important betrayal to an viewers keen to know is the phrase “as you’ll be able to see”. It’s repeated many instances at these briefings, and it’s too shortly adopted by “subsequent slide please”. The data proven is advanced and takes a second to digest. The presenters – the UK authorities’s chief medical adviser Chris Whitty and its chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance – must decelerate.

On the map under from briefing in query, how many people observed that the weekly case charges per 100,000 individuals didn’t improve by the identical quantity every time in the important thing? We had intervals of 25 for the primary two classes, however then jumps of 50 till 200+. The map’s design additionally failed to indicate that the speed far exceeded 200 circumstances per 100,000 individuals in some areas. Wigan, for instance, had 622 circumstances per 100,000 individuals.

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One aim of a map maker is to disclose patterns that will exist within the knowledge, and colouring is essential to this – they need to determine when to maneuver from one color to a different. In some circumstances it’s preferable to separate up a slim a part of the distribution into numerous colors after which assign the remainder to a couple. Otherwise you would possibly assign every a part of the distribution equally. Both is okay, nevertheless it must be defined, or else it’s a nuance that may get missed or misinterpreted.

The selection made for this map overemphasises small leaps in small numbers on the expense of huge leaps in massive numbers. Until the values as much as 25 and people between 25 and 50 had significance in coverage, they may have been lumped into 0-50. Likewise, the map suggests something higher than 200 doesn’t actually matter – {that a} fee of 201 deserves the identical color as a fee of 601. This doesn’t appear proper to me. However the level is, this technique must be defined, as a result of selecting completely different intervals can create a really completely different impression.

Think about the next graphs. The highest left is similar as the federal government’s purple one above, whereas the others current precisely the identical knowledge, simply with completely different sized intervals.

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On this level as properly, the presenters made their lives exhausting by utilizing nationwide maps when a lot of the motion is in cities. These are exhausting to see at this scale. The maps pulled out London, however ought to have accomplished the identical for different city areas.

Presentation issues too

On this map, we have been presupposed to concentrate on the darkish brown areas – these are dangerous information. However as an alternative our eyes can’t resist the greens. Whitty needed to inform us that the brown areas have been what we must be taking a look at.

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These greens and browns are an business customary color palette, however extra intuitive alternate options exist, reminiscent of gentle blues for slowing charges and darker reds for the growing ones.

Many individuals on-line additionally complained that the slides didn’t match the display. This was an error seen on the BBC solely, which had set them up improper, and wasn’t the federal government’s fault. Nonetheless, it does recommend the federal government isn’t contemplating what gadgets individuals will use to view the press conferences. They look like designing for the 50-inch tv they’re viewing and never for the many individuals streaming or catching up on their telephones.

It’s all the time a dangerous technique to push content material proper to the sting of slides, as issues can get reduce off. The structure additionally didn’t account for the chyrons that seem on the backside of reports broadcasts, which might simply have been anticipated and designed for.

Try to preserve it easy

“It is a sophisticated slide,” mentioned Sir Patrick Vallance as he drew issues to a detailed, forgiving us for not totally understanding it. However this slide was essential. It was the climax to the case for lockdown. The 16 maps and graphics that got here earlier than have been simply preamble. The 2 graphs on this slide advised us that the NHS would doubtless run out of capability to deal with the sickest sufferers in just a few weeks if we didn’t act. It was all he wanted to indicate.

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Sadly, the dates have been misaligned on each graphs (the one on the correct takes us to the top of the 12 months, the left mid-December). It’s splitting hairs maybe, nevertheless it demonstrates once more that nobody took a breather to dot the Is and cross the Ts.

The abundance of acronyms and specialist language can also be symptomatic of making an attempt to throw an excessive amount of at a common viewers to construct credibility by means of complexity. This strategy dangers alienating the viewers – when truly there was one key message on Saturday: with out lockdown we’ll run out of hospital beds inside a number of weeks and other people we might in any other case save will die.

I wish to be clear that I’ve large respect for the groups of individuals concerned in creating these maps and graphics. I even have sympathy with the scientific advisers themselves, who’re treading the more and more strained tightrope between science and politics. The truth that they’re displaying such a wealthy array of information in some fairly attention-grabbing methods is a very good factor, and we’d like extra of it.

However knowledge visualisation and communication is completely different to epidemiological modelling. It’s exhausting to do properly, even tougher underneath stress, although it’s doable. Sadly, if the federal government briefings are something to go by, it stays an ignored and undervalued talent.

James Cheshire doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or organisation that may profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their educational appointment.

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Westerns… and no, Dirty Harry does not count….

High Noon and Rio Bravo (it’s John Wayne and Gary Cooper’s argument)

Man Who a Shot Liberty Vallance

True Grit

Shane

Pale Rider

A Fistful of Dollars

Magnificent Seven (the original with Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen. The remake is “meh” and it’s a shame given the cast)

John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy (Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande)

Silverado

Blazing Saddles (after you’ve watched a few of the earlier ones and you will understand the jokes better)

The Professionals and The Wild Bunch (the closing of the west)

I’m sure I’m forgetting some. I’ve deliberately left off a few (e.g. Unforgiven) off.

I need suggestions for Western films to watch.