A Very English Scandal is an excellent 3-episode telling of a reality-based scandal with a leading MP. You can find it on Amazon Prime. I'd never heard the story (it came to the fore in the 1970s), so it was interesting from a historical perspective too.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/entertai ... index.html
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Adding to my winter watch list!
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Thanks for the warning
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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A brilliant mini series, Hugh Grant is amazingly good in it, a real eye opener.
The funny coincidence is that I had read the book it was based on, a month prior, not knowing it was to be released.
Jim, you will love this one! (A shame Meade cannot allow himself to watch it.)
The funny coincidence is that I had read the book it was based on, a month prior, not knowing it was to be released.
Jim, you will love this one! (A shame Meade cannot allow himself to watch it.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Same with me reading First Man. I didn’t know a movie was coming out until after I finished the book.Gob wrote:A brilliant mini series, Hugh Grant is amazingly good in it, a real eye opener.
The funny coincidence is that I had read the book it was based on, a month prior, not knowing it was to be released.
Jim, you will love this one! (A shame Meade cannot allow himself to watch it.)
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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I've got it on my list to watch...
I remember the story, I followed it as a teenager back in the 70s. ( A now defunct local DC paper, The Washington Star, did an in depth series of articles on it and had a reporter at the trial...)
There's nothing about it in the linked CNN story, but as I recall it was the killing of a dog that happened during the botched hit attempt that really outraged the public...
I remember the story, I followed it as a teenager back in the 70s. ( A now defunct local DC paper, The Washington Star, did an in depth series of articles on it and had a reporter at the trial...)
There's nothing about it in the linked CNN story, but as I recall it was the killing of a dog that happened during the botched hit attempt that really outraged the public...
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Too bloody true! We don't mind politicians shooting poofs, but hell's teeth, someone's great dane?!?!?!?
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We do have differing notions of shame but as I was aroond 'n aboot for the start of this one, I can't be bothered now. John Hurt's work in the Naked Civil Servant was more interesting (and yes, I did watch it without being forced to do so). Now if Jeremy had starred in Priscilla, that might be worth a view!Gob wrote:A shame Meade cannot allow himself to watch it
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts