#benjamin salisbury

[bobbiflekmann]

Lauren Lane behind the scenes with her once little co-stars Madeline Zima and Benjamin Salisbury

[grandmastv]

The Nanny (2.15 Kindervelt Days, 1995).

[angelstills]

S1, Ep. 5: Here Comes the Brood (1993) The Nanny (1993-1999)

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 90's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...The Nanny: Pilot (1993) on Peacock TV #TV #television #comedy #sitcom #thenanny #frandrescher #CharlesShaughnessy #danieldavis #laurenlane #nicholletom #benjaminsalisbury #madelinezima #PeacockTV #peacock #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas4thannual90sfest

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Captain Ron 1992

[thehopelessauthor]

Stepparent appreciation post

Blitz Buckzo (inevitable😈) = Helluva Boss

Fran Sheffield = The Nanny

Lucifer Morningstar (AU) = Lucifer

[amberraymond]

Fran Drescher want to do something special for the nanny

[therogerclarkfanclub]

Roger's* 2024 Comic Con Schedule

Interested in knowing if Roger is coming to your city or town? Check the listings below. Updated as new info becomes available.

If you've been waiting for the opportunity to meet Roger & The Gang, or you would like to meet him/them again, feel free to bookmark ("Like" 😉) this post if you want to keep up with Roger's Comic Con appearances. I will update and reblog this list as soon as new info becomes available.

Alternatively, you can always keep tabs on Roger's social media for the latest dates.

*This is listing is not limited to just Roger, it will also include any other cast members attending a specific Con.

⭐ LAST UPDATED: August 31, 2024 ⭐

JAN 07 - Added: Fanboy Expo

JAN 25 - Added: FANEXPO Cleveland

JAN 31 - Added: RetroGameCon

MAR 04 - Added: Fanboy Expo Orlando

MAR 06 - Added: Washington Gaming Expo

APR 10 - Added: Florida Supercon

APR 21 - Added: Stellar Con York

APR 22 - Added: Sci-Fi Valley Con

MAY 04 - Added: Fanboy Expo Orlando (Alex, Roger)

MAY 04 - Added: WonderFest 2024

MAY 07 - Added: Rob to Sci-Fi Valley Con

MAY 15 - Added: New York Comic Con

JUL 02 - Added: Brasil Game Show

JUL 26 - Added: Pittsburgh Gaming Expo (Roger)

JUL 28 - Added: Pittsburgh Gaming Expo (Benjamin)

AUG 06 - Added: FanEXPO San Francisco (Rob)

AUG 11 - Added: Soda City Comic Con (Roger)

AUG 26 - Added: Rhode Island Comic Con (Alex)

AUG 31 - Added: Comic Con North East (Roger, Rob)

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GalaxyCon Presents: Animate! Raleigh

Dates: January 5-7, 2024 City: Raleigh, North Carolina Venue: Raleigh Convention Center 500 S Salisbury St. Raleigh, NC 27601 Confirmed attendees: Roger, Benjamin, Peter Cancellations: Rob

Fanboy Anime Toy Gaming Knoxville

Dates: March 9-10, 2024 City: Knoxville, TN Venue: The Knoxville Convention Center 701 Henley Street Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Confirmed attendees: Roger, Rob

GameOn Expo

Dates: March 15-17, 2024 City: Phoenix, Arizona Venue: Phoenix Convention Center - North Building 100 N 3rd St. Phoenix, AZ 85004 Confirmed attendees: Roger & Rob

Washington State Gaming Expo

Dates: March 29-31, 2024 City: Puyallup, Washington Venue: Washington State Fair and Events Center 110 9th Ave SW Puyallup, WA 98371-6811 Confirmed attendees: Roger & Rob

FANEXPO Cleveland

Dates: April 12-14, 2024 City: Cleveland, Ohio Venue: Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland 300 Lakeside Ave E Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

PopCon Indy

Dates: April 26-28, 2024 City: Indianapolis, Indiana Venue: Indiana Convention Center 100 South Capitol Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46225 Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

WonderFest 2024

Dates: June 1-2, 2024 City: Louisville, KY Venue: Crowne Plaza Louisville Airport Hotel 830 Phillips Lane Louisville, KY 40209. Confirmed attendees: Rob

Sci-Fi Valley Con

Dates: June 7-9, 2024 City: Altoona, PA Venue: Blair Country Convention Center One Convention Center Drive 100 South Capitol Ave. Altoona, PA 16602 Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

Stellar Con York

Dates: June 15, 2024 City: York, Pennsylvania Venue: York Fairgrounds 334 Carlisle Ave York, Pennsylvania 17404 Confirmed attendees: Roger

Black Hills Redemption

Dates: June 21st - 23rd, 2024 City: Deadwood, South Dakota Venue: The entire town of Deadwood Panel will be held at: Homestake Opera House Meet & greet sessions: Saloon No. 10 Confirmed attendees: Rob, Steve, Benjamin, Robert Bogue, Mick, Peter, Alex, Jim Santangeli, Howard Pinhasik, Kaili, Meeya, Jim Pirri, Curzon, Roger, Samantha, Jo, Gabriel, Penny O'Brien, John Hickok, Sophia Marzocchi Cancellations: Gabriel

Florida Supercon

Dates: July 12 - 14, 2024 City: Miami Beach, Florida Venue: Miami Beach Convention Center 1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach, FL 33139 Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

Comic Con Wales

Dates: August 10-11, 2024 City: New Port, South Wales Venue: International Convention Centre Wales Coldra Woods Newport South Wales NP18 1HQ United Kingdom Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

Soda City Comic Con

Dates: August 24 & 25, 2024 City: Columbia, South Carolina Venue: Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center 1101 Lincoln Street Columbia, SC 29201 Confirmed attendees: Roger

🌟 Fanboy Expo Orlando 🌟

Dates: September 6-8, 2024 City: Orlando, Florida Venue: Orange County Convention Center - West Concourse 9800 International Drive Orlando, FL 32819 Confirmed attendees: Benjamin, Roger, Alex, Rob, Peter, Kaili

🌟 Pittsburgh Gaming Expo 🌟

Dates: October 4-6, 2024 City: Monroeville, Pennsylvania Venue: Monroeville Convention and Events Center 209 Mall Plaza Blvd Monroeville, PA 15146 Confirmed attendees: Roger, Benjamin

🌟 Brasil Game Show 🌟

Dates: October 09-13, 2024 (10th and 11th only for Roger) City: Sao Paulo, Brazil Venue: Expo Center Norte Rua José Bernardo Pinto, 333 Vila Guilherme São Paulo - SP 02055-000 Brasil Confirmed attendees: Roger

🌟 RetroGameCon 🌟

Dates: October 11-13, 2024 City: Syracuse, New York Venue: The Oncenter Convention Center 800 South State Street Syracuse, NY 13202 Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

🌟 New York Comic Con 🌟

Dates: October 17-20, 2024 City: New York City, New York Venue: The Jacob Javits Convention Center 429 11th Avenue New York, NY 10001 Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

🌟 Comic Con North East 🌟

Dates: October 26-27, 2024 City: Newcastle upon Type Venue: Utilita Arena Newcastle Arena Way Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne & Wear NE4 7NA, UK Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

🌟 Rhode Island Comic Con 🌟

Dates: November 1-3, 2024 City: Providence, Rhode Island Venue: Rhode Island Convention Center & Amica Mutual Pavilion 1 Sabin Street Providence, RI 02903 Confirmed attendees: Alex

🌟 FanEXPO San Francisco 🌟

Dates: November 29, 30, and December 1st, 2024 City: San Francisco, California Venue: Moscone Center West 800 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Confirmed attendees: Rob

[docholligay]

Books read 2023

~ = denotes reread

 * = denotes A Big Rec of The Year (Nothing I reread was allowed a Rec note. If I’m rereading it, I probably think it’s pretty good)

#–denotes Follower Pitch

^–Denotes Commissioned Read

♪–denotes Pitchless Draw

&-- denotes Holligay Book Club Pick

 Rogues edited by G.R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky*

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers~

Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham*

Montana Women From The Ground Up: Passionate Voices in Agriculture by Kristine Ellis

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende#

Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz by Garth Nix

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara^*

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue#

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlanksy~

House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne~&

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay ♪

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke*

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang#

Provenance: How a Con Man and A Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo

David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas~

Ten Restaurants that Changed America by Paul Freedman

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead#* 

The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace

Lone Women by Victor Lavalle (A sister holligay forceread)

The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill

The Iron Tracks by Aharon Appelfeld~ 

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers ♪

The Power of The Dog by Thomas Savage

The Faceless Old Woman That Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink #

Bedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton

Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield#

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng^

Close Range by Annie Proulx

Watership Down by Richard Adams&~ 

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier^ 

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Tran^

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke~*&

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead~*#

Snake Ropes by Jess Richards^

Les MIserables by Victor Hugo~

Currently Reading: 

On deck:

[koolboobanned]

Door-to-door cosmetics sales lady Fran Fine inadvertently becomes the nanny to the three children of a widowed Broadway producer.

Starring: Fran Drescher (Fran Fine), Charles Shaughnessy (Maxwell Sheffield), Daniel Davis (Niles), Lauren Lane (C.C Babcock), Nicholle Tom (Maggie Sheffield), Benjamin Salisbury (Brighton Sheffield), Madeline Zima (Gracie Sheffield), Renée Taylor (Sylvia Fine) & Rachel Chagall (Val Toriello)

sources: IMBd, YouTube

[youbegmetostop]

Taken from @pohjanneito

RULES: Post the first paragraph of your last 10 fics posted to AO3. (Sort by date posted.) If you have less than 10 fics posted, post what you have.

melt your headaches, call it home (TGM, Hangman & Bob, gen)

Jake is on the way to the base gym when his phone pings, a text from an unknown number that just says <PHOENIX DOWN, MIA. DONT KNOW MORE>, and his heart stops. The text must be from Rooster; he and Phoenix are both deployed on the Reagan right now. He wonders how many strings Rooster had to pull to get a text out to him. And then he thinks, Bob.

2. a look, a laugh, a smile, a second (TGM, Penny/Jake, Explicit)

“You know, I think you might owe me a little something,” a familiar voice says, and Penny looks up from cleaning glasses to see Hangman standing on the other side of the bar, a flirtatious smile on his face.

3. you said the brains I had went to my head (TGM, Maverick/Cyclone, Mature)

Beau sighs, closing the file he’d just been handed and pinching the bridge of his nose. Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Of course. The bane of his goddamn existence.

4. so come take my hand, come on (RPF, Tom Cruise/Christopher McQuarrie, Explicit)

Chris sighs, setting down his book and checking his watch. It’s after 1am, and the treadmill has been humming for at least two hours, a steady thrum from down the hall. He swings his legs over the side of the bed, padding down to the workout room in his socks and pajama pants.

5. holiday from real (RPF, Jon Hamm/Lewis Pullman, Explicit)

They pour themselves into a limo, loose and warm from all the champagne at the reception. Lewis slides in close to Jon, nuzzling at his neck and dragging his soft skin against Jon's stubble. He makes contented noises, and Jon slides an arm around his waist as the limo starts to drive away. They're staying at the same hotel, ostensibly in separate rooms, which makes it easier for moments like this, sharing cars and pretending they’re not about to do exactly what they’re doing. Jon kisses Lewis' temple, nosing at his hairline before turning his face to kiss Lewis properly and deeply. Soft contented sighs turn to slightly louder groans, and Jon reaches a hand down to palm at Lewis' dick. Lew presses his hips up into it, and then Jon is sliding to his knees on the floor of the limo, struggling to unbutton Lewis' dress pants.

6. cathedrals (TGM, Maverick/Penny, Explicit)

“Penelope Benjamin!” Pete exclaims, mock surprise in his voice, hands to his chest. “I never would have pegged you for the type.” She grins and kisses his cheek, waving the joint in his face again.

7. you can trust me not to think (TGM, Penny/Jake, Explicit)

“Are you happy?” Penny asks, nestled against Jake’s solid form, their legs tangled together in post-orgasmic bliss.

8. a new heart for christmas (TGM, RoosMav, Teen)

They dock at North Island in the last week of November, three days after Thanksgiving. There had been an attempt at Thanksgiving dinner on board—they’d departed too abruptly for proper provisions to be loaded, and all they had were the same old rations. Still, the mess crew did the best with what they had, and they had all piled into the officers’ mess, plates loaded with boxed mashed potatoes, Salisbury steak topped with thick gravy, and a cobbler made of canned peaches and graham crackers. It didn’t matter though—they were all still so pumped full of adrenaline and joy at being alive that they probably could have been served cat food and no one would have noticed.

9. i and love and you (TGM, RoosMav, Explicit)

From the time he’s very young, all Bradley wants is to find true love—the kind of all-consuming, soul-satisfying love he hears about in his mom’s stories of his father. So it is, perhaps, the greatest injustice of his life that he’s pretty sure he’ll never get that. It’s hard to build any sort of meaningful relationship with someone when everyone you fuck finds their true love almost immediately after. And so far, it’s never been him.

10. grateful for what's understood (TGM, Penny/Jake, Teen)

Penny wakes to soft kisses on her shoulder and a strong arm wrapped around her waist. She leans back into it, pressing against a firm torso, and her eyes fly open as she remembers who’s in her bed. She takes a few deep breaths and then rolls over to look Jake in the eye.

[with-a-martyr-complex]

With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2022

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc​, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a disgusting fiend.

Introduction to the Qur'an by Martyn Oliver with Tahera Ahmad (for Quranic recitation)

Conquistadors by Michael Wood

ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life by Stacy Sims and Selene Yeager

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe 1500-2000 by Vegas Gabriel Liulevicius

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Coup de Grâce: A Novel by Marguerite Yourcenar (Translated by Grace Fick)

Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima (Stanford Press Translation)

Classical Mythology by Elizabeth Vandiver

Metamorphoses by Ovid (Translated by Frank Justus Miller)

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't) by Carolyn Elliott

Fascism: A Warning by Madeline Albright

The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self by Leo Damrosch

Greek Tragedy by Elizabeth Vandiver

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiaticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

Natural Law and Human Nature by Father Joseph Koterski

Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay (Foreward by John McCain and Max Cleland)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Translated by Clarence Brown)

Treason by Orson Scott Card (Originally published as A Planet Called Treason)

The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas by Lawrence Cahoon

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault (Translated by Alan Sheridan)

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

History of Sexuality: Volume I by Michel Foucault (Unidentified Translator)

Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault (Translated by Richard Howard)

Lent: A Novel of Many Returns by Jo Walton

Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon by Suzanne M. Desan

The Stranger by Albert Camus (Translated by Matthew Ward)

10 Women Who Ruled The Renaissance by Joyce Salisbury

A Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements

Because Internet: Understanding The New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

The Republic by Plato (Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Davos Man: How The Billionaires Devoured The World by Peter S. Goodman

The Birth of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries by Alan Charles Kors

(Spooky) Litigation: The Practice of Supernatural Law (Volume 1) by Jeffrey A. Rapkin

Emperors of Rome by Garrett G. Fagan

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Francis of Assisi by Ronald B. Herzman and William R. Cook

Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

Popes and The Papacy: A History by Thomas X. Noble

Misery by Stephen King

The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher

The Aeneid by Virgil (Translated by John Dryden)

The Aeneid of Virgil by Elizabeth Vandiver

The Industrial Revolution by Patrick N. Allitt

[Redacted] by [Redacted]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Translated by Duke Classics)

America and the World: A Diplomatic History by Mark A. Stoler

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Translated by William Scott Wilson)

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Voltaire and The Triumph of The Enlightenment by Alan Charles Kors

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Constance Garnett)

Incomplete books: Jacques the Fatalist, The Just City, On Killing

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Great Courses consumed: 17

Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 16

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Works consumed by women: 17

Works consumed by men: 37

Works consumed by men and women: 2

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 10

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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: It’s a tie between Lent and Coup de Grace, I just couldn’t decide between the two. Feel free to mock me for my indecision.

>>>> Honorable mention: The Stars My Destination, Misery

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: The Guns of August

>>>> Honorable mention: Living the French Revolution and The Age of Napoleon, Greek Tragedy, Conquistadors, The Aeneid of Virgil

>>>> Great Courses Division: The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: We

>>>> Honorable mention: Crime and Punishment (This may have suffered from me reading while quarantining, I could easily have swapped it with We under other circumstances)

>>>> Nonfiction Division: Leviathan

>>>>>>>>Honorable Mention: Discipline and Punish

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

>>>> Honorable mention: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Leviathan

The “This is Kooky Made Up Nonsense But Still Worth Checking Out” Award: Existential Kink

The “Reading This has Allowed Me To Stop Caring About Its Author Too Much” Award: The Benedict Option

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This marks the first year where I’ve reached my goal of at least 1 book per week for the year, and I’m reasonably proud of that. I’m especially proud that I didn’t overload the list with short works to reach that goal and was able to tackle some difficult or long works while maintaining a solid pace. I did find myself reading fewer literary works than I tend to prefer, and my nonfiction that wasn’t lectures was lower than I’d generally like (however much I do love lectures). 

Goals for next year: more foreign policy reading, more literary fiction, write something of my own.

[angelstills]

S1, Ep. 1: The Nanny (1993) The Nanny (1993-1999)

[pastedpast]

I listened to Times Radio every day without fail, morning, noon, and night, for over two years (I even bought a portable DAB so I could listen while gardening, and I took it with me on holidays). My interest began around the start of national lockdown in 2020, then stopped abruptly when the coverage became all about the Tory leadership contest between Truss and Sunak. I switched to 'The Rest Is Politics' podcast with Campbell and Stewart instead, which I still listen to quite regularly even though I can't stand either of them, and I didn't bother with Times Radio again until the recent announcement of the forthcoming general election.

I've started tuning in to the radio station over the past few days, and this long-winded preamble leads me to explain my posting (above) of the front cover of the book, 'The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler' by Kathryn S. Olmsted. It's because a guest on Matt Chorley's show today, historian and journalist Dominic Sandbrook (of 'The Rest Is History' podcast co-hosted with fellow historian and writer Tom Holland - I used be subscribed to that, too, but I couldn't keep up!) was talking about a politician from the past whom he admired, the three-time British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. And during the discourse he mentioned an accusation made by Baldwin of Britain's most powerful "press barons", which is what inspired me to investigate the topic further.

Ah! Stanley Baldwin. I remember his name, along with William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Salisbury, Lord Arthur Balfour, Ramsey Mcdonald, Andrew Bonar Law, Joseph Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, etc., etc., from my A Level British History (1870-1945) days. Yeh, I remember their names, but aside from Winston Churchill, my knowledge of politicians from that era merges into one big blur, as I found the history of British domestic policy from that period really, really dull. I was far more interested in the European history side of the course, beginning with Bismarck and the Franco-Prussian War. Anyway, what Sandbrook was saying about Baldwin did interest me, so I listened back later, transcribed some notes in my new notebook, and then automatically headed towards Google (or in my case, the search engine with the duck). My tap-tap-tapping led me to a book review (I love book reviews, I can glean sufficient information without going anywhere near the book itself), the subject of which was six press barons from Britain and the US who, according to the book's author, Olmsted, “worked together to pressure their respective governments to dismiss and ignore the fascist threat” in the run up to the Second World War. Naturally, I was intrigued.

Throughout his political career, Baldwin was involved in what Sandbrook described as a "terrible feud" with the owners of two British newspapers, Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook, ('The Daily Mail' and 'The Daily Express' respectively) who criticised his leadership extensively in their popular publications. His put-down of them is famous, essentially equating them with prostitutes of no morals in their exercise of: "power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages". And it was these two British lords who conspired with US newspaper proprietors, aiming to prevent their countries becoming entangled in European affairs (and consequently, as the book title dramatically suggests, enable Adolf Hitler in his quest to redraw the map of Europe into an empire of German domination).

The US press barons were as follows: William Randolph Hearst, Robert McCormack, Joseph Medill Patterson and Eleanor Medill Patterson. McCormack and the two Pattersons were all grandchildren of Joseph Medill, an early proprietor of 'The Chicago Tribune'. Olmsted asserts that this formidable and hugely influential cabal opposed their countries' involvement in Europe for several reasons, the foremost being to protect their formal (British) and informal (US) empires. Even after the surprise attack on the American naval base, Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1941, in which over 2,400 Americans died, they argued that defeating Japan should be America's priority and to desist from tackling the other "Axis powers", namely Japan's allies, Germany and Italy. Reluctance to oppose fascism sweeping across the continent also stemmed from their political standpoints of antisemitism and/or anti-communism. A group of just six people, yet they held considerable political clout, easily disseminating their views on a grand scale to a national readership. The governments on both sides of the Atlantic struggled to counteract what Olmsted calls the "divisive politics and sometimes hateful messages" the newspapers espoused.

The Wikipedia page about Baldwin says he has been criticised for his part in the policy of appeasement towards Hitler and the failure to rearm sufficiently after the First World War to prepare for the Second. It also says, however, that he has received praise for his role in forcing and expediting the abdication of the British king, Edward VIII, as rumours circulated about Edward's Nazi sympathies and potential compromises to British national security. Sandbrook also praised Baldwin for his "consensual" style of politics which he believes enabled Britain to enter the war as united as it did, while under another leader, indeed, Churchill, Britain could well have gone in much more conflicted and divided. Sandbrook also mentions the fact that Baldwin gave 10% of his own fortune anonymously towards paying off the National Debt at the end of World War One, because he felt guilty that his family firm, EP&W Baldwin Ltd., an ironmakers, had made so much money out of the war.

Photograph from the aforementioned 'Chicago Tribune' of Stanley Baldwin (on the right of the picture), in his second term of office as British Prime Minister, with Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) in October 1926. Edward came to power a decade later and abdicated the same year, on 10 December 1936. The abdication took place during Baldwin's third term as PM.

POSTSCRIPT: I've been genning up a bit on Sandbrook. Apparently, he has been a vocal critic of the Iraq War (2003 to 2011) and I would like to hear his opinion about his podcasting neighbour, Alastair Campbell - both podcasts are produced by Gary Linekar's 'Goalhanger' production company - and Campbell's role as British PM Tony Blair's 'comms man' during the war in Iraq. I'd also like to know what he thinks about 'The Daily Mail', for whom he is/has been a columnist, and how he squares working for a right-wing newspaper, as I think I once heard him describing himself as a Marxist ???

[EDIT: I must've misheard him as, although admittedly I haven't dug very deep, I found this online: "Sandbrook is an unashamed apologist for Margaret Thatcher who’s made no secret of his disdain for the policies of ‘Red Ed Miliband’ and his Marxist father, Ralph". Ah well, I knew there was something about him I didn't like!]

Also, been reading articles about Rory Stewart. One is about how his hatred of Boris Johnson became so obsessive that he went into therapy to try to deal with it and even his own mother told him to stop talking about him. There's a critical one in the New Statesman that I must read again called: "Rory Stewart still doesn’t know who he is", in which Stewart describes himself as "tortured" and "complicated". He's certainly had a fascinating and, to use one of his favourite words, "distinguished" career, although he seems to flit about a lot, and on a personal level it's mad to think he's younger than me. His beautiful, clever, capable wife is even younger !! The couple have achieved so much in their lives already, changing things for the better with their charity work and what-have-you, whereas me... zilch! (I don't mind that I'm useless, though. I'm happy with my lot nowadays, and am not complaining.)

A final note, as this post about ultra-powerful media moguls leads me to Rupert Murdoch, the owner of, amongst other news dispensaries, the radio station I mentioned at the beginning of this post. I re-watched some of the three-part documentary series about him and his family on BBC iPlayer the other day, and this seems like an appropriate time to add the link.

ADD MUSSOLINI QUOTE RE WHY GMNY, ITALY AND JAPAN WERE CALLED THE AXIS POWERS

ALSO THE REASON WHY JAPAN JOINED THEM

[purplelito1996]

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