Shelley (1980)

 

Shelley (1979/80)

 

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

 

Disraeli (1929/34)

 

Play For Today: Kisses at Fifty (1973)

 

Play For Today: Just a Boys' Game (1979)

 

The Job Lot (2015)

 

Play For Today: A Cotswold Death (1982)

 

In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan (HarperCollins 2021)

Since being elected in 1992 as the Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton, I had always considered myself to be an instinctive Eurosceptic. I voted ‘No’ in the 1975 referendum, and maintained my belief in the following decades that the EU was undemocratic, inflexible and in need of fundamental reform. As 2016 came around, I still expected to join the Leave campaign, and began discussions to do so. But, as will be seen, I eventually decided against it. With age and experience comes, if not wisdom, greater perspective. Politics cannot always be about indulging one’s natural inclinations.

Like many, I received my share of abuse for backing Remain, but I do not regret it. If anything,  events have reinforced me in my belief that I was right to pull back from the brink. Nor do I think I have fundamentally changed my position on Europe. Somewhere along the line from the early 1990s the cause of honest and thoughtful Euroscepticism mutated into a form of simplistic nationalism that strikes me as ugly and demeaning. Rather than devoting their energies to campaigning for the reform of outdated EU institutions and seeking a better deal for the UK, too many Eurosceptics retreated instead to crude sloganeering. There was a rational and pragmatic case to be made for leaving the EU, but few bothered to make it. Instead, we faced a wave of populist nonsense, emotive platitudes and downright lies: a barrage of Farage.

The Job Lot (2014)

 

Play For Today: All Good Men (1974)

 

The Goodbye Girl (1977)

 

Smiffy

Those Michael Smith stems and flights snapped and broke . . . just like Smiffy broke all those hearts at the PDC World Championship this year.

10/50

Chariots of Fire (1981)

The Paper Chase (1973)

 

The Job Lot (2013)

 

Murder, They Hope (2021)

 

Pig (2021)

 

Arthur (1981)

 

A History of Violence (2005)

 

Deadpool 2 (2018)

 

Click & Collect (2018)

 

Jerry Maguire (1996)

 

From Here to Eternity (1953)

 

High Times (2008)

 

The 20 segment is Green and White . . .

 . . .  and so is Glasgow, folks.

9/50

Tootsie (1982)

 

High Times (2004)

 

A Fine Romance (1981)

 

Gavin & Stacey (2007)

 

Fame (1980)