Such imaginative casting has long been the hallmark of dramas involving senior British politicians.
Who will ever forget Rock Hudson playing Harold Macmillan, opposite Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Dorothy, or the glamour the young Clint Eastwood brought to playing the maverick, gun-toting loner Edward Heath in the Common Market blockbuster Busting Down the Doors (1973)?
More recently, Gillian Anderson won awards for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. But people forget that an equally glamorous actress played her in Young Margaret (1999).
Imaginative casting has long been the hallmark of dramas involving senior British politicians. People forget Pamela Anderson (pictured) played Margaret Thatcher in Young Margaret (1999)
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A COMMUNITY development company in the north of Shetland is distributing
Growing Local packs to enable residents to grow their own produce.
The packs consist of a variety of seeds for growing as well as a questionnaire for people to fill in.
Northmavine Community Development Company (NCDC) recently appointed Mark Ratter as project worker to oversee the two-year initiative aimed at increasing community access to locally grown produce.
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This follows on from NCDC’s successful
Peerie Voar seed packs which were sent out to Northmavine residents during last year’s lockdown.
Ratter has recently returned to Shetland after several years working in the South-East Asian country of Laos, supporting the development of sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers, whilst also running a restaurant and bar with his wife, Sudjai.
Xinjiang Cotton and the Shift in China’s Censorship Approach
What makes China’s shifting strategy on Xinjiang information management unique is that in addition to traditional approach to censorship, there seems to be a shift to fill the censored silence with noise.
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April 29, 2021
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In March, international clothing brands such as H&M, UNIQLO and Adidas caught the ire of Chinese social media. The initial outcry against foreign brands was spurred by H&M’s recent decision to stop relying on cotton sourced from Xinjiang due to concerns of forced labor and human rights abuses, and has since evolved into a broader online movement to “support Xinjiang cotton.”