Posted by: Iain Fisher
« on: June 15, 2023, 12:43:06 PM »Sadly Glenda Jackson has passed away. More soon.
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Glenda will appear on a British postage stamp. The series of stamps is to honour the Old Vic theatre, and features a variety of actors in roles they played in the theatre. Glenda will be on the stamp playing King Lear.
Others in the series are Judi Dench, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Albert Finney, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.
Now the election seems to be over, I think I was surprised by two things. Both pertaining to the Liberal Democrats. (1) That they'd form a coalition government with the Conservatives, as they'd seemingly had more in common with Labour. And (2) how few seats overall they won. Seemingly, they got about a third of the overall vote, but only won about 10% of the seats in the House of Commons. It'd seem that, at least for this election, whereas the support for both the Conservatives and Labour was concentrated to certain areas, the Liberal Democrats' support was wider overall.