#douglas hurd

[ministerforpeas]

The Young Ones!

[famousborntoday]

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from...

Link: Douglas Hurd

[tonyrossmcmahon]

Short Sharp Shock - nightmare prison regime

Short Sharp Shock was a military-style prison regime for young offenders that wrecked lives and didn't work as Tony McMahon discovers

One of the first measures introduced by the new Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was the so-called ‘short, sharp, shock’ policy for young offenders. A regime of strict military-style discipline and strenuous physical activity designed to remove criminality from a youth’s character and wipe the smile off their face. It was also described as red meat for the blue rinses – a…

[ulrichgebert]

Statt Bibelspektakel zur Abwechslung mal ein Ritterspektakel mit Charlton Heston. Der prinzipientreue El Cid eint seinem zweifelhaften König zum Trotz die Spanier samt verständigen Mauren gegen Islamistische Welteroberungspläne. So ist recht! Nur die gute Sophia hat nicht so recht was von ihm. Am Ende ist er tot, aber legendär und reitet dem Sonnenuntergang entgegen, in Technicolor und ..hm.. Supertechnirama.

[thewarmestplacetohide]

Dread by the Decade: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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★★★★

Plot: A dark wish ensures that a man's portrait ages while he remains unchanged.

Review: A slowburn that maintains a consistent sense of dread throughout, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an excellent exploration of mortality, guilt, and the horrors that both can wreak.

Source Material: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Year: 1945 Genre: Supernatural Horror, Gothic Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes

Director: Albert Lewin Writer: Albert Lewin Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Editor: Ferris Webster Composer: Herbert Stothart Cast: Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Lowell Gilmore, Peter Lawford, Douglas Walton, Richard Fraser

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Story: 4/5 - Unsettling, dramatic, and depressive. While it departs from its source material, it still captures its horror and core themes.

Performances: 4.5/5 - Hatfield's Gray is perfectly cold, creepy, and detached, and Sanders' nihilistic wit is a stand out.

Cinematography: 4.5/5 - Very well framed and lit. Creative camera angles.

Editing: 4/5

Music: 4/5

Effects & Props: 4/5 - The transformed painting and its subsequent shifting are wonderfully grotesque.

Sets: 5/5 - Gorgeous, varied, and ornate.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 5/5 - Engrossing and elaborate—the woman's gowns and hair especially.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Mild body horror

Suicide (offscreen)

Substance abuse (brief)

Orientalism (brief)

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Actors in alphabetical order: part 1(A-D), part 2, part 3

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Anne Hathaway Anya Taylor-Joy Asia Argento Astrid Berges-Frisbey Boran Kuzum Camille Rutherford

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Carla Juri César Domboy Callum Turner Cate Blanchett Charity Wakefield Charlie Rowe Chiara Mastroianni Christian Bale Christoph Waltz

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Dagmara Dominczyk Dan Stevens Ella Purnell Emily Blunt Ezra Miller Raffey Cassidy Rebecca Emilie Sattrup Rose Byrne Roxane Duran

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Frances O'Connor Gemma Arterton Hannah Taylor-Gordon Hattie Morahan Hugh Dancy Isabelle Adjani Jude Law Keira Knightley

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Izzy Meikle-Small James Norton Jane Birkin Joanne Whalley Lucy Boynton Jim Caviezel Monica Keena Nicolas Duvauchelle Sally Hawkins

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Adriana Tarábková Dakota Fanning Elle Fanning Gaia Weiss Gwyneth Paltrow Kirsten Dunst Léa Seydoux Pia Degermark Roxane Mesquida Rosamund Pike Samantha Gates Sophia Myles Nell Tiger Free

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Annabelle Wallis Austin Butler Carey Mulligan Guy Pearce James Frain Katie Parker Kate Siegel Olivia Cooke Rachel Hurd-Wood Soko Sujaya Dasgupta Tom Cruise

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Adèle Exarchopoulos Anna Maxwell Martin Charles Dance Emma Williams Gillian Anderson Ian Somerhalder Imogen Poots Matthew Rhys Natalie Press Nina Dobrev Paul Wesley Tamzin Merchant

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Anna Friel Catherine Mouchet Déborah François Dominic West Frédéric Noaille Joséphine Japy Kevin Kline María Valverde Paz Vega

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Ben Whishaw Clémence Poésy Elliot Grihault Emilia Fox Joseph Morgan Lambert Wilson Michelle Dockery Phoebe Fox Sophie Okonedo Tom Hiddleston Tom Hughes Tom Sturridge

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Calista Flockhart Charlotte Gainsbourg Christina Giannelli David Strathairn Felicity Jones Fu'ad Aït Aattou Greta Scacchi Helena Bonham Carter Holliday Grainger Michelle Pfeiffer Rupert Friend Sophie Marceau

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Angela Bassett Brooke Carter Cillian Murphy Danylo Kolomiiets Katie McGrath Keeley Hawes Maria Bonnevie Marta Gastini Miriam Giovanelli Olivia Hussey Oscar Isaac Peter Plaugborg

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Ben Affleck Ben Barnes Ben Chaplin Bill Skarsgård Iben Akerlie Jakob Oftebro Jo Woodcock Josh Hartnett Lily-Rose Depp Reese Witherspoon Ruth Wilson Samantha Soule Taissa Farmiga Tess Frazer Virginie Ledoyen

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Cary Elwes Colin Firth Daniel Day-Lewis Emilia Verginelli Hannah James Jonah Hauer-King Loli Bahia Lorenzo Balducci Rebecca Hall Robin Wright Rupert Everett Willa Fitzgerald

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Annes Elwy Claire Danes Eliza Scanlen Freddie Fox Hugh Jackman Kathryn Newton Louis Partridge Maya Hawke Romola Garai Samantha Mathis Trini Alvarado Winona Ryder

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Douglas Smith Eric Bana Gizem Karaca Jessica Brown Findlay Kenneth Branagh Kit Harington Millie Brady Natalie Dormer Poppy Delevingne Rachel Weisz Rosy McEwen Sam Claflin

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Aubri Ibrag Christina Hendricks Connie Jenkins-Greig Guy Remmers Henry Cavill Imogen Waterhouse Josie Totah Mia Threapleton Olivia Hallinan

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Alex Fitzalan Emma Connell Essie Davis Fahriye Evcen Justine Waddell Natalia Sánchez Monica Bellucci Penelope Cruz Piper Perabo

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Alicia Vikander Alida Baldari Calabria Christopher Abbott Emma Stone Jasmine Blackborow Kim Rossi Stuart Lili Reinhart Louis Cunningham Margaret Qualley Marine Vacth Mark Ruffalo Mélanie Thierry Ramy Youssef Scarlett Johansson Sydney Sweeney

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Antonia Clarke Cameron Monaghan Daisy Edgar-Jones Domhnall Gleeson Heather Graham Isolda Dychauk Kaitlyn Dever Karen Gillan Laoise Murray Madelaine Petsch Olivia Colman Sophie Turner Vanessa Redgrave

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Claire Foy Claire Holt Clementine Nicholson Emily Mortimer Jennifer Beals Kelly Macdonald Lena Headey Perdita Weeks Ruta Gedmintas Sarah Bolger Sting Tom Holland

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Berrak Tuzunatac Burcu Ozberk Cansu Dere Deniz Cakir Melisa Sozen Merve Bolugur Saadet Aksoy Yasemin Allen

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Amelia Warner Bruce Robinson Cristiana Capotondi Christiane Filangieri David Rott Francesca Annis Golshifteh Farahani Helen McCrory Maisie Williams Nadia Parkes Pierre Niney Uma Thurman

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To do list:

Christopher Gorham under development (The Other Side of Heaven 2001) Harry Melling - The Pale Blue Eye 2022 Nora Arnezeder - Angélique 2013 Isabella Heathcote - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Dark Shadows 2012. Beneath Hill 60 2010. Eleanor Worthington-Cox in Gwen (2018) Julie Delpy - La passion Béatrice 1987,  Frankenstein 2004, Trois couleurs: Blanc 1994, The Three Musketeers 1993 Nastassja Kinski - Revolution (1985), Tess 1979 Julia Ormond - Young Catherine 1991, First Knight 1995, Legends of the Fall 1994 Laura Donnelly - Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, Britannia, Outlander Morena Baccarin in Stargate Isabella Celani - A Room with a View 1985 Neve McIntosh - Gormenghast 2000 Kate Beckinsale - Much Ado About Nothing 1993 Sarah Felberbaum as Maddalena in Medici Rocco Gottlieb - The Book of Vision 2020 Kate Beckinsale - Alice Through the Looking Glass 1998. Stonehearst Asylum 2014. Haunted 1995. Royal Deceit 1994. Love & Friendship 2016. Van Helsing 2004. Pearl Harbor 2001. Michelle Jenner - La catedral del mar 2018, Isabel Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Anna Karenina 2012. Nosferatu 2024. Oskar McNamara

Volker Bohnet — Ludwig 1973 Romy Schneider — Ludwig 1973, Sissi 1955 Helmut Berger — Ludwig 1973

✦Ethan Erickson

Dorian 2003— under development

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[nessjo]

20th anniversary of Peter Pan (2003)

Peter Pan

International theatrical release poster

Directed by: P. J. Hogan

Screenplay by:

P. J. Hogan

Michael Goldenberg

Based on: Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie

Produced by:

Lucy Fisher

Douglas Wick

Patrick McCormick

Starring:

Jeremy Sumpter

Jason Isaacs

Rachel Hurd-Wood

Richard Briers

Olivia Williams

Lynn Redgrave

Ludivine Sagnier

Geoffrey Palmer

Cinematography: Donald McAlpine

Edited by:

Garth Craven

Michael Kahn

Music by: James Newton Howard

Production companies:

Universal Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Revolution Studios

Red Wagon Entertainment

Allied Stars Ltd

Distributed by:

Universal Pictures (English-speaking territories and South Africa)

Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (International)

Release dates:

18 December 2003 (Australia)

24 December 2003 (United Kingdom)

25 December 2003 (United States)

Running time: 113 minutes

Countries:

United Kingdom

United States

Australia

Language: English

Budget: $130 million

Box office: $122 million

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Title: Dorian Gray

Rating: R

Director: Oliver Parker

Cast: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Emilia Fox, Ben Chaplin, Fiona Shaw, Caroline Goodall, Maryam d'Abo, Douglas Henshall, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Max Irons, John Hollingworth, Pip Torrens, Michael Culkin, Nathan Rosen, Jeffrey Lipman Sr, Jo Woodcock

Release year: 2009

Genres: thriller, fantasy, drama

Blurb: Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When his obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.

[hongkongcrisisupdate]

Press Release #16

" MI5 is the best counterintelligence agency in the world. Nothing goes in or out of Britain without us knowing. Rest assured that the safety of Her Majesty's most sensitive secrets and your secrets are also safe with us.

"Rest assured people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the MI5 is a shield that can never be pierced! all traitors to the country will be caught and face justice!"

- Douglas Hurd

[wholesomeobsessive]

Books of 2022

Classroom Management by Dawson Schultz

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

George VI by Philip Ziegler

Elizabeth II by Douglas Hurd

Fly In The Ointment by Anne Fine

Elizabeth I by Helen Castor

Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones

Millennium by Tom Holland

An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry

Woke Racism by John McWhorter

Let That Be A Lesson by Ryan Wilson

Teaching With Poverty In Mind by Eric Jensen

Boys Don't Try by Mark Roberts and Matt Pintell

How To Manage Your Slaves by Jerry Jones

Reread tons of Discworld in December

[ministerforpeas]

COMMONS OF HOUSE!

[newsingit]

Israel-Palestine war: Has David Cameron revived the Tory Arabist tradition? Imran Mulla, Peter Oborne 29/11/23

On 6 November 1956, after Britain and France launched a military action in collusion with Israel to occupy the Suez Canal, the Spectator published an editorial denouncing it as an ill-considered “act of aggression”. It was a bold move from Britain’s iconic Tory magazine, one that would age well, on the part of then-editor and proprietor Lord Ian Gilmour.

Gilmour went on to serve briefly as defence secretary under Edward Heath’s Conservative government, and then for two years as Margaret Thatcher’s lord privy seal - until she sacked him in 1981. During that time, and throughout his life, Gilmour belonged to the almost extinct tradition of Tory Arabism and was a staunch and consistent supporter of the Palestinians.

Britain’s new foreign secretary, former prime minister David Cameron, is an important case study in the demise of Tory Arabism. As a young politician, he was influenced by Tory supporters of Palestine, especially Douglas Hurd, whose Witney constituency he inherited, and former party chairman Chris Patten.

As leader of the opposition, Cameron allowed his shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, to strongly criticise Israel’s war in Lebanon in 2006. "I think we can say that elements of the Israeli response are disproportionate,” Hague told MPs in the House of Commons, going on to cite "attacks on Lebanese army units, the loss of civilian life and essential infrastructure, and such enormous damage to the capacity of the Lebanese government".

[scavengedluxury]

Handsworth Riots 1985 - Pogus Caesar.

[blossomgutz]

i am suffering right now so i’m gonna spread the pain via this cursed thing i made where i drew 1980s british politicians as gals because of that au i came up with there it’s just a politics club and because i can’t draw adult men fo shizzle. all of them are based on the spitting image portrayals. cecil is wearing a schoolgirl outfit. what the fuck is this.

[textsfromwestminsterredux]

[gymfanconfessions]

“The two gymnasts I miss the most in elite are Gabby Douglas and Morgan Hurd. I hope they're both having a great day today.”