Tom Priestley, who has died aged 91, was a highly regarded film editor who worked with Lindsay Anderson, John Boorman, Blake Edwards and Karel Reisz, and won several awards.
The play is the best-known work by author J.B. Priestley. <em>An Inspector Calls</em> (written and first performed in 1945) has a certain enduring significance.
Stuart Maconie is proud of his country. But after travelling it to write The Full English, he’d like it to focus on being happy, healthy and progressive
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A smaller nation – post-imperial, post-EU, and possibly one day even post-UK – has begun to emerge. It’s time the left caught up
It might be time for the left to undertake its own English journey. Photograph: fotoVoyager/Getty Images/iStockphoto
It might be time for the left to undertake its own English journey. Photograph: fotoVoyager/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Sun 17 Jan 2021 01.00 EST
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Towards the end of his 1930s masterpiece,
English Journey, JB Priestley writes of “memories reaching from West Bromwich to Blackburn, Jarrow to Middlesbrough, darkly crowding in on me”. The suffering witnessed by the author during the Great Depression, he explains, turned him into a Little Englander: “That