images that spring to mind unbidden, part 849: "you lost the mandate of heaven?!"

tbf the most immediate cause of the whole struggle that resulted in the 1911 bill was the Lords' rejection of Lloyd George's budget

damn its a good movie

for gods sakes its getting more coverage than the mandelson furore at this point* (*in my narrow perspective of the british and irish political ecosystem)

its weird that journalists, MPs, ministers etc are all making grandiose, sometimes even apocalyptic statements about this in specific - where were they for the last rash of assassinations/assassination attempts?

personally i found The Blackcoat's Daughter a better horror film. Longlegs was certainly more stylised and braver/bolder in its creative choices, but i preferred the eerie simplicity Perkins was able to achieve in 2015 which better centres the performances (esp. Kiernan Shipka's)

the supernatural/satanic elements that i often thought were a bit unfocused in Longlegs are a lot clearer and more carefully used in TBD and it helps put into perspective their thematic use for communicating the something uneasy or subtly horrifying about each film's subject

*Peel was a staunch opponent of Catholic Relief throughout the 1810s and 1820s, but this was built on a principled concern for the stability of the Church-Crown-State model Britain operated on then. he found the Protestant Ascendancy distateful and was never as bigoted as later unionists could be

...could be trusted in a modern, peaceful, non-sectarian* government, and that it was ultimately more important to neutralise the 'Irish question'. Gladstone clearly made a similar calculation for his more liberal principles ("You must clear the line. You must dispose of the Irish question")