The Spectacle
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| Active until | 2006 |
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| Origin | Bodø Municipality |
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| Record labels | CrimethInc. |
| Albums | I, Fail |
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| ID | 1793192 |
About The Spectacle
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade: Annual event stars SpongeBob and minor protest
... Those enjoying the parade included families who had travelled long distances to see The Spectacle...
Laura Kuenssberg: Reshuffle deals drama but voters more worried about wallets
... Fully paid-up political nerds, myself included, have been glued to The Spectacle of the last seven days...
Remembrance Day: King Charles leads wreath-laying on Whitehall
... Here were families making sure their loved ones were remembered and here were people who had come to see The Spectacle, but also to pay their respects...
Can Rishi Sunak's switch from Mr Steady to Mr Change work?
... Quite The Spectacle: the person who was prime minister a year ago rolling up to say the current prime minister is getting it all wrong...
Kim Jong Un-Putin talks: What do the optics tell us?
... But beyond The Spectacle and bombast, observers question whether the meeting achieved any concrete deals...
Northern Lights: England's skies glow in aurora spectacle
... Photographers who stayed up to catch a glimpse of The Spectacle shared their images with the BBC...
Blue supermoon: World gazes at rare lunar phenomenon
... In the UK, the best time to see The Spectacle will be in early hours of Thursday morning...
Super blue Moon: Rare spectacle set to light up skies
... If the skies are clear, the best time to see The Spectacle in the UK will be in early hours of Thursday morning...
Can Rishi Sunak's switch from Mr Steady to Mr Change work?
By Chris MasonPolitical editor, BBC News
There are five words that get to The Crux of The Challenge for the Conservative Party .
The diminishing returns of reinvention.
This autumn, Rishi Sunak has changed tack.
Gone is the Mr Steady As He Goes. The guy who came in to settle things down After All the turbulence of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson .
Instead, Mr Sunak is now portraying himself as Mr Change: the guy who wants to get things done and is willing to point to the failings, as he sees them, of the governments that came before, including ones he served in.
Last Night I bumped into a cabinet minister in a lift.
" I like this change. It's punchy. It has raised The Mood here. Will it work? Who Knows ? " they said.
In other words, it is worth a go, but when you are the fifth Prime Minister of a 13 year run in office, those diminishing returns are never Far Away .
But, but, but: the contrast with a year ago is worth acknowledging.
Another senior minister reminds me that it is 12 Months ago since they were pivotal in bringing down Liz Truss when The Party gathered in Birmingham in October 2023.
Last Year 's party conference was like a firework display where all the bangers and rockets went off all at once.
This year is - up to a point - More conventional political pyrotechnics.
The biggest issue of The Lot will dominate on Monday: The economy.
The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt , will give his speech.
Ministers point to revised data from The Office for National Statistics, which suggest since the start of the pandemic than initially thought.
But they also acknowledge that it is how an economy feels, as well as the numbers in a spreadsheet, that really matters - and things have been difficult for Many for a long time.
Any sense of improvement matters, for peoples day-to-day lives, but matters too in shaping when the Prime Minister might be tempted to call a general election.
Oh And One other thing, that stretches, at least a little, that idea of The Return of the conventional.
Liz Truss turns up here later.
Quite The Spectacle : the person who was Prime Minister a year ago rolling up to say the current Prime Minister is Getting It all wrong.
She will say The Best way to get the economy growing again is cutting business taxes, fracking and building More houses More quickly.
Mr Hunt is dismissing her prospectus.
For years before becoming Prime Minister , Boris Johnson did his Prince over the Water act at party conference, swooping in to delight Many activists, who anticipated how things might be if he had The Top job.
Now it's Liz Truss - who, remember, was More popular than Rishi Sunak among Conservative Party members - who appears as the (former) Queen over the Water, alongside allies such as Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Dame Priti Patel .
How she is received - and by how Many - will be fascinating.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
