On February 12th 1946, Isaac Woodard, an honorarily discharged veteran of the war in the Pacific, was set upon by officers of the South Carolina police force and blinded. The NAACP contacted Orson Welles, who used his ABC radio show to call for justice for Woodard 1/
We've had, pork scratchings, monster munch, toy busses, teacakes, pints of beer and now bars of Freddo waved in our faces to make sure we understand his point, at the same time 'pausing' his promises. I don't regret cancelling my membership.
That’s because Healey’s resignation was never about defence spending, as pretty much everyone knows. It was a way to fatally damage Starmer and help Andy Burnham become Prime Minister.
Burnham then made him Chancellor as part of this quid pro quo.
From the archive - me and Sir Lloyd Dorfman. I’d put in a request to shoot Sir Lloyd for the cover of After Nyne 20. He had donated a seven-figure amount for the revamp of the Royal Academy in 2017 and I wanted to celebrate that.
I got a call from his people saying that he would be available to shoot at the Royal Academy at 8.30am for half an hour in two days time. And we’d have to fit the interview and the shoot into that half hour. As always, we rose to the occasion.
Sir Lloyd was lovely, as was Kate Goodwin, Head of Architecture at the RA, who was on the cover with Sir Lloyd.