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Downing Street has paid tribute to Patrick Stewart following the actor’s death. At the daily lobby briefing, the PM’s spokesperson gave a comment that was a bit more extensive than the usual No 10 contribution when a great British celebrity dies. The spokesperson said that was because Andy Burnham feels strongly about the importance of actors.
The spokesperson said:
The prime minister was very sad to hear of the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart.
As a former culture secretary he knows how much Britain’s greatest actors mean to the country, and Sir Patrick was one of the very best.
Just a reminder that when it comes to Wales, we are not comparing like with like. The term ‘region’ in an English context typically refers to an area covering between 1.5 and 3 million people. In Wales, regions cover much less dense areas. The Swansea Bay city region captures some 700,000 people, and similarly North Wales around 690,000 people. In Mid-Wales sheep outnumber people by 7:1. Only the Cardiff city region is comparable to English tiers, and even then at the lower end: around 1.5 million people.
Transposing an English mayoral worldview onto a very different political geography just doesn’t work. Wales may be a similar population size to the PM’s old manor but that’s where the parallel ends.
Andy Burnham talks about the regions of England and Wales interchangeably but the role the new prime minister champions for metro mayors is, in many respects, already performed by the Welsh government. Powers over skills, employment support, economic development, housing investment and major spending programmes sit at an all-Wales strategic level (covering a similar population size to Greater Manchester.)
His argument for England is that powers should flow from Westminster to city regions because they operate at an economically meaningful scale. Yet when the PM turns to Wales, he seems to suggest that powers already devolved to Cardiff Bay should be dispersed further down the system.
But notably he is not calling on his successor as the mayor of Greater Manchester, Bev Craig, to fragment the powers of the Greater Manchester combined authority and redistribute them amongst its ten constituent councils. On the contrary, the whole logic of the Greater Manchester model rests on concentrating strategic authority at a regional level.
Yet the implication of his comments is that Wales should move in the opposite direction.
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© Photograph: Darren Staples/Pool AFP/AP
© Photograph: Darren Staples/Pool AFP/AP
This blog is now closed
Downing Street has paid tribute to Patrick Stewart following the actor’s death. At the daily lobby briefing, the PM’s spokesperson gave a comment that was a bit more extensive than the usual No 10 contribution when a great British celebrity dies. The spokesperson said that was because Andy Burnham feels strongly about the importance of actors.
The spokesperson said:
The prime minister was very sad to hear of the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart.
As a former culture secretary he knows how much Britain’s greatest actors mean to the country, and Sir Patrick was one of the very best.
Just a reminder that when it comes to Wales, we are not comparing like with like. The term ‘region’ in an English context typically refers to an area covering between 1.5 and 3 million people. In Wales, regions cover much less dense areas. The Swansea Bay city region captures some 700,000 people, and similarly North Wales around 690,000 people. In Mid-Wales sheep outnumber people by 7:1. Only the Cardiff city region is comparable to English tiers, and even then at the lower end: around 1.5 million people.
Transposing an English mayoral worldview onto a very different political geography just doesn’t work. Wales may be a similar population size to the PM’s old manor but that’s where the parallel ends.
Andy Burnham talks about the regions of England and Wales interchangeably but the role the new prime minister champions for metro mayors is, in many respects, already performed by the Welsh government. Powers over skills, employment support, economic development, housing investment and major spending programmes sit at an all-Wales strategic level (covering a similar population size to Greater Manchester.)
His argument for England is that powers should flow from Westminster to city regions because they operate at an economically meaningful scale. Yet when the PM turns to Wales, he seems to suggest that powers already devolved to Cardiff Bay should be dispersed further down the system.
But notably he is not calling on his successor as the mayor of Greater Manchester, Bev Craig, to fragment the powers of the Greater Manchester combined authority and redistribute them amongst its ten constituent councils. On the contrary, the whole logic of the Greater Manchester model rests on concentrating strategic authority at a regional level.
Yet the implication of his comments is that Wales should move in the opposite direction.
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Patrick Stewart è morto a 86 anni nella sua casa di Los Angeles, circondato dalla moglie Sunny Ozell, dai familiari e dagli amici. L’attore britannico, protagonista di Star Trek e della saga degli X-Men, aveva affrontato negli ultimi anni l’Alzheimer. La famiglia ha annunciato la morte il 29 ottobre.
Patrick Stewart era nato il 13 luglio 1940 a Mirfield, nello Yorkshire. Prima della fama televisiva aveva costruito una lunga carriera nel teatro britannico. Dopo la formazione alla Bristol Old Vic Theatre School entrò nella Royal Shakespeare Company, dove rimase per circa 14 anni interpretando numerosi personaggi del repertorio classico.
La svolta internazionale arrivò nel 1987, quando ottenne il ruolo del capitano Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Interpretò Picard per 178 episodi fino al 1994 e tornò successivamente nel personaggio nei film Star Trek: Generations, Primo contatto, L’insurrezione e La nemesi. Decenni più tardi tornò ancora una volta nell’universo di Star Trek con la serie Star Trek: Picard.
Per un’altra generazione Stewart è soprattutto Charles Xavier, il Professor X. Il debutto avvenne con X-Men nel 2000. Tornò nel ruolo in X-Men 2, X-Men: Conflitto finale, X-Men – Giorni di un futuro passato e Logan, oltre ad altre apparizioni legate all’universo Marvel.
Il rapporto sullo schermo con Ian McKellen, interprete di Magneto e suo grande amico anche nella vita, diventò uno degli elementi più riconoscibili della saga. Stewart riprese ancora una versione di Xavier in Doctor Strange nel Multiverso della Follia.
La carriera cinematografica era però molto più ampia. Nel 1981 partecipò a Excalibur di John Boorman. Nel Dune di David Lynch del 1984 interpretò Gurney Halleck. Nel 1993 apparve invece nella commedia Robin Hood – Un uomo in calzamaglia di Mel Brooks, interpretando Re Riccardo.
La sua attività teatrale non si interruppe con la fama hollywoodiana. Nel West End e a Broadway fu protagonista, insieme a Ian McKellen, anche di Aspettando Godot di Samuel Beckett.
L'articolo Patrick Stewart morto a 86 anni: da Picard al Professor X, chi era e quali film ha fatto proviene da Affaritaliani.it.
Silver screen legend Patrick Stewart, who gained fans the world over for generations starring in iconic rolls from "Star Trek's" Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" franchise, has died. He was 86.
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