Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain

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Royals warned of careless talk around Harry': King Charles was 'cautious' in conversation with his second son after his memoir Spare Paxman has presented the weekly TV programme review Did You See...? and You Decide. From 1994 to 2023 he was the quizmaster for University Challenge, bringing him the distinction of "longest-serving current quizmaster on British TV." [38] In 2013 the BBC received 44 complaints after Paxman's 'acerbic' remarks caused a 20-year-old contestant to repeatedly apologise for answering a question wrong. [39] In October 2022, an ITV documentary, Paxman: Putting Up With Parkinson's, revealed how the disease has impacted him [40] and revealed that Paxman recorded his very last episode of University Challenge on 15 October 2022, which aired on 29 May 2023. [41] [42] He presented a weekly compilation of highlights from the domestic edition of Newsnight from February 2008 until shortly after the 2008 U.S. election on BBC America and BBC World, when the American programme was cancelled. The programme is still aired on BBC World. [25] [43] Nutt, Kathleen (19 September 2021). "Jeremy Paxman says he would vote for Scottish independence". The National. Glasgow . Retrieved 28 September 2021.

In 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair opted to make the case for the invasion of Iraq via questions from a TV studio audience, mediated by Paxman. The programme is chiefly remembered for the fact that Paxman asked Blair if he and U.S. President Bush prayed together. Blair replied, "No, Jeremy. We don't pray together." To which Paxman replied, "But why not?" [25] [26]

In one sense, Scargill was right. The government and the National Coal Board (NCB) were going to close pits. But they would have been closed more slowly if it had not been for the strike, which also had an odd effect on the way in which the history of mining is seen. It came to loom large in the collective imagination of the Left, and I suspect that the number of historians working on this single event is now greater than the number working on all other aspects of the history of British mining. The NUM often seemed – like the French army after the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 – to be building its identity around the celebration of what had, in fact, been a crushing defeat. a b "TV tonight: Jeremy Paxman on Parkinson's, dissecting brains and quitting University Challenge". The Guardian. 4 October 2022 . Retrieved 4 October 2022. Taylor Swift sparkles in dazzling silver bodysuit and boots at Eras Tour stop in Sao Paulo... one week after fan's tragic death at Rio de Janeiro show

Profile: Jeremy Paxman". The Observer. London. 19 May 2002. Archived from the original on 26 August 2013 . Retrieved 17 November 2013.

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The narrative covers all this, as well as the push for nationalisation, then de-nationalisation when it was clear the industry was on its knees and the rise of mining Unions, in particular the NUM. It was beyond the scope of this book but I am interested in, to what extent, the NUM contributed to the demise of mining in the UK by their strike in 1984. I am looking into this time in industrial history a lot more closely now, as it mentioned in this book, Scargill was pretty much correct in everything he said. Indeed, there was a government plan to shut pits. There was a smear campaign against him personally and the Union in general, the government set about destroying not only the NUM, but subsequently the UDM too, they marshaled the police to fight the miners and on and on. Thatcher was truly, truly, a pernicious politician who is still revered on the right, despite basically destroying much of society of which she infamously claimed that there was "no such thing". But was the decline of coal mining inevitable anyway? Hilary Duff keeps it casual in frayed blouse and brown sweats as she and husband Matthew Koma enjoy a family day with their kids in Studio City Paxman became a focus of media attention in October 2000 when a German Enigma machine, which had been stolen from Bletchley Park Museum, was inexplicably sent to him in the post. He returned it to the museum. [76] [77]