Archive for May, 2026
A review of the new film “The Devil Wears Prada 2”
May 13th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
ou can wait wait a long time for a movie sequel these days and it’s 20 years since we first visited the fashion magazine “Runway”. This enables the new film to feature some of the consequences of the dramatic shift from print publications to the online world and to hint at recent efforts to make […]
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The eighth five-star review of my new book “Everyone Has A Story” available on Amazon
May 12th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
“What a brilliant book, and what a great idea. Maybe more of us should follow Roger Darlington’s example and take an avid interest in our close friends, listening to them carefully and asking just the right questions that get to the very heart of their personal story. These vivid accounts are just the right length […]
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Major changes in the size and election of the Welsh Parliament
May 5th, 2026 by Roger Darlington
The Welsh legislature came into operation in May 1999 as an Assembly and in May 2020 was renamed aa a Parliament and it covers the 3 million citizens of Wales. Prior to May 2026, the Welsh Parliament had 60 members elected by a system of proportional representation known as the ‘mixed member system’. As a […]
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Suez in 1956 and Iran in 2026 – are there any parallels?
May 2nd, 2026 by Roger Darlington
This week, I watched a television documentary on the Suez crisis of 1956, a period that I knew too little about as I was only eight years old at the time. In this crisis, Britain and France, together with Israel, concluded that Nasser’s acquisition of the Suez Canal represented some kind of existential threat. They […]
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