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Master in Scriptwriting
The MA in Scriptwriting is a professional training course for working writers. Most scriptwriters work across several media, and the course reflects this. All our tutors are working writers. We aim to turn out writers who understand the structure and craft of drama, have a finished script they can use as a calling card, know the industry in all its variety, and can pitch and sell their work.
The MA is taught in seventeen weekends of intensive workshops. It is not, however, 'low residency'. There are as many hours of teaching as on Bath Spa University's established MA in Creative Writing.
The course is taught at our beautiful Corsham Court campus where we are developing performance, capture and editing facilities. We also work closely with the School of Music and Performing Arts, and their students will have the opportunity to help act in and produce our work.
Although this is an intellectually challenging postgraduate course, there is no 'academic' side detached from the working side. Everything theoretical is geared to help the students as writers.
Course Structure and Content
The course is full-time from October to September, or part-time over two years, and is taught in modules. The first trimester runs from October to January and there are two modules, each delivered in three intensive weekends.
One is the module on Dramatic Structure. This aims to give you an understanding of the full range of ways that plays and scripts can work. You are introduced to dialogue, character, genre, and the different media. But the emphasis is on how to tell a story - a well made plot. Students will read and view widely, but the academic side is not separate from the working side. This module is to help you write.
The other module in the first trimester is a workshop in Writing Theatre and Radio. This is delivered in three intensive weekends. All of the time is devoted to the students' own work, and much of the time we work on our feet. At the end of the trimester each student finishes a 45 to 60 minute play or radio script, and a 3,000 word essay that explains the structure of that script.
The second trimester, from February to June, also has two modules. One is Professional Skills, again over three intensive weekends. All our experience is that the ability to write alone is not enough to make your way in the various industries of theatre, television, film and radio. You also need to be able to pitch, and to talk intelligently and flexibly about your own work and others'. One of our tutors facilitates this module, and various industry professionals come in for a day each to inform, rehearse and challenge you.
The other module this trimester is Workshop in Screenwriting, also over three weekends. Here you write a script for film or television. We pay particular attention to genre, to the visual and time requirements of the screen, and to writing for particular markets. At the end of this trimester each student finishes 50 to 60 minutes of TV, or a short film script, or a treatment for a full-length film plus at least 45 minutes of polished script.
The third trimester runs from June to the end of September. Here there is only one double module, the Final Script Workshop. The workshops meet over five intensive Saturdays.
In this module each student writes a full length play, a full length film script, or the equivalent in television or radio. This script can be a development and reworking of earlier pieces, but will often be completely new work. At the end of September students submit this script.
The final assessment is based on three things. The most important is this script. The second is a 3,000 word essay explaining exactly where in the market it is aimed and how it is shaped to fit that niche. The third is a cold pitch for this script. When we speak of the market, we are thinking quite broadly. Some students will want to write for Hollywood, British independent films, soap operas, or theatre. Others will want to write radio plays, documentaries, puppet shows, theatre in education, training videos or school plays. The emphasis is, however, always on getting your work to a produceable form.
Teaching Methods and Resources
All courses will be taught by intensive workshops. Over the years we have found this is far and away the most productive way of teaching writing. It is particularly suited to scriptwriting, which is very much a social and collective art.
Assessment Methods
Assessment is by coursework only. In the first two trimesters work will be assessed as work in progress. The final submission will be examined on the script (60%), and the essay on the market and the pitch (40%).
Entry Requirements
Most students accepted onto the course will have either a first degree or a thorough professional training in acting, theatre, television, or film. Some students, however, will be accepted on the basis of equivalent life experience. Applicants are asked to submit one or two pieces of creative writing with their application form, about twenty pages in all. This can be part of a novel, short stories, poems, or script. Do not assume it has to be drama. Submit your best work rather than your best script.
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Chief executive Ralph Seymour-Jackson has also stepped down after new universities minister David Willetts indicated he had "no confidence" in him, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) said.
Mr Willetts asked chairman John Goodfellow to leave and told him that while it was a matter for the board, he had no confidence in Mr Seymour-Jackson.
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A simple word requesting the value for a product or services to be rendered.
But for a mallu, this word can send shivers down their collective spines like velluchettan climbing down a coconut tree.
In Kerala the word 'quotation' has a more sinister meaning. It is a term used in Kerala's underworld as the value for services rendered like beating up a person/s of your choice, having limbs cut off from your chosen people, forcibly kicking someone else's bucket on your behalf, looting, raping, threatening, intimidating, blackmailing and other unsavory activities.
The people who do these services are known very lovingly as Quotation team aka Quotation gang.
I have had the privilege of knowing a gentleman who offers this service. He runs a travel agency in Trivandrum and is part of a kalari. So he get his resources from his kalari (much like a dojo but here, kalaripayatu, the oldest known martial art is taught). Teenage boys who get a thrill in acting out their little sword dreams. I have met a few of these boys also.
Personally I wasn't impressed.
What is scary about them is that they come in a group and under great peer pressure to prove themselves. The worst case scenario in my opinion. You probably will be able to thulp the living day lights out of each one of them individually, but the sheer number can be a little off putting. A bunch of people with no common sense and weapons have always been my favorite problem.
When you think of the word 'underworld', it conjures up images of guys in suits with brooding eyes and big guns. In Kerala, nothing could be further from the truth. Our underworld quotation king's looks pretty ordinary; the lungi and shirt type. Very unimpressive. In the hierarchy they rank as service providers. They come between the needy and the needless. The needy being contractors, builders, politicians, rich business magnates (that's a mallu word for being a rich business person...have no idea where the magnet fits in), the liquor barons etc. The needless is everyone else, who are really pretty much disposable.
As service providers, they don't normally involve themselves in the action once the quotation is approved. I don't think they receive any Local Purchase Order. Normally it would be a 50% advance and balance on delivery.
So now the quotation chettan subs the contract in true mallu tradition. We subcontract everything. In the olden days, we even subcontracted our wives to the namboodiris to do the needful while we went to wars fighting over who gets another coconut tree. Along with other discoveries like matriarchal society, toddy and beef fry, we are also the patented discoverers of subcontracting.
The contract is now given to the actual people who will undertake the said service. This lot are lovingly known as goondas.
Goondas in Malluland don't have normal mallu names like Takazhi Shivashankara Pillai. They go by names like Kathi Mathai (Kathi means knife in mallu), or Minal Vasu (Minal is mallu for lightening), or my favourite soda babu (the prefix due to the said gentleman's affinity of soda bottles as a weapon).
The goondas resources can be from many sources. They could be from a particular local gym, a kalari, any government party or union, colonies etc. Every place has its own goonda and a team of goondagites (my term for minor goondas) under him.
Once the transaction is completed, our 'boyz from the hood' go over and do the actual deed. Of course sometimes they make mistakes and do the wrong person in - but hey, it is an honest mistake. Can happen to anybody. How many times have you gone and killed the wrong person? I thought so. It happens.
The thing is, this particular trade has become part and parcel of life in Kerala. They are used to turn a peaceful procession into a riot, they are used to either stall or speed up any civil contract related issues, they are used by business competitors to intimidate the competition, hell, and they can even make or break a movie that hits the screen.
These bastards are everywhere.
The only way to beat them is to get a bigger goonda, which means more quotations and LPOs and credit application forms. So in effect it's a self multiplying issue - like an amoeba.
So what do we do about this?
I honestly do not know.
Like any problem in Kerala, when it's pointed out, more fingers tend to be pointed elsewhere. It's like if there's a problem in Kerala; first we are required to go and solve world hunger, eradicate racism, resolve all religious discords, do other minor deeds like lighting a matchstick on soap. Then we can finally come back and address the issue only to be told that the court is now on vacation.
I may care about the world. I said may. I actually may not. But I do care about the place I live in. I like keeping my house clean. I don't care if my neighbor doesn't. So when I say that we should really do something about the dog shitting all over the carpet and you go like, oh, you should see what our neighbor's dog does to the ceiling, that's when I get all pissed. I do not care about my neighbor's problem. Maybe he can take a lesson from how I keep my house. Maybe he doesn't know how. Maybe he's too scared of the dog. Maybe he thinks that's how a house should be or maybe that's how he likes it. I DO NOT CARE.
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Anna Mae Hoover, 64, of Thorp, Wisc., passed away Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 at her residence.
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Let them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Toward an Individual Exchange
Most non-elderly Americans purchase insurance through their employers, which sponsor a limited number of plans. We estimate how much employees would be willing to pay for the right to apply their employer subsidy to the plan of their choosing. We make use of a proprietary dataset containing information on plan offerings and enrollment for 800+ large employers between 1998 and 2006; the dataset represents over 10 million Americans annually. We estimate a model of employee preferences using the set of plans they are offered. Using the estimated parameters from this model, we predict employees' choices in a hypothetical world in which additional plans in a market are available to them on the same terms, i.e. tax-free and subsidized by their employers. Holding employer outlays constant, we estimate that the median welfare gain from expanding choice amounts to roughly 20 percent of premiums. For the vast majority of employee groups and alternative model specifications, the gains from choice are likely to outweigh potential premium increases associated with a transition from large group to individual pricing.
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|published as Leemore Dafny & Kate Ho & Mauricio Varela, 2013. "Let Them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and toward an Individual Exchange," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 5(1), pages 32-58, February.
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11) Allow the mixture in the saucepan to cool, until the mixture thickens.
12) In the meantime, take the pudding package and follow the directions to prepare the pudding. Mix almond extract to the pudding.
13) Allow the pudding to cool and then pour it on the gingersnap shell. Arrange raspberries on top of the pudding and spread the gelatin mixture on top.
14) Place the shell in the refrigerator to chill.
15) Serve chilled with whipped cream and garnish with additional raspberries, if desired.
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Calories 567 Calories from Fat 87
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 11 g16.9%
Saturated Fat 3.1 g15.5%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 2.7 mg0.9%
Sodium 646.8 mg26.9%
Total Carbohydrates 116 g38.6%
Dietary Fiber 5.7 g22.9%
Sugars 83.6 g
Protein 4 g8.2%
Vitamin A 9.1% Vitamin C 35.3%
Calcium 15.7% Iron 11.5%
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Nordic City Regions in the Creative Class Debate—Putting the Creative Class Thesis to a Test
The Nordic countries have a quite different urban structure and social systems than the USA. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden may then constitute a critical test of the empirical reach of Richard Florida's much cited creative class thesis beyond its empirical basis in the USA. This paper employs comparative statistics to examine the importance of the quality of place in attracting members of the creative class to Nordic city regions, and it analyses the role of the creative class for regional economic development. Florida's original study focused only on city regions with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Our statistical analyses mainly support Florida's results with regard to these larger Nordic city regions. The paper, however, also analyses smaller city regions, which are important in the Nordic urban structure. The findings are clearly less supportive for these smaller regions, which mean that the original creative class approach has to be considerably refined when used in the Nordic context.
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Stir in vegetable mixture to coat with sauce.
Serve immediately.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 638 Calories from Fat 142
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16 g24.7%
Saturated Fat 2.3 g11.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 631.1 mg26.3%
Total Carbohydrates 114 g38.1%
Dietary Fiber 14.1 g56.3%
Sugars 79.8 g
Protein 8 g15.3%
Vitamin A 113.2% Vitamin C 486.2%
Calcium 24.2% Iron 24.1%
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By Elliot Blair Smith, USA TODAY
NEW ORLEANS The penguins survived.
The sharks did not.
For almost nine months, the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas has been closed to the public after Hurricane Katrina swept through this storm-tossed city in August.
PHOTOS: Aquarium swims back to life
The aquarium is New Orleans' crown jewel of visitor attractions along the Mississippi River, where the central business district eases into the French Quarter. It is Louisiana's most popular destination, hosting 730,042 visitors last year, more people than attend Mardi Gras.
But the late-August sun converted the aquarium's glass-canopied interior into a 140-degree tropical inferno. Storm-related power outages starved its giant fish tanks of oxygen.
Days after the storm, rescuers found the aquarium's macaws, parrots, penguins and sea otters panting in stifling heat. Its silver tarpon fish survived by gulping air from the surface of the 132,000-gallon Caribbean Reef tank. But most of its aquatic life, including the sharks, perished. Among the survivors: Spots, the white alligator; King Mydas, the giant green sea turtle; and Patience, the 27-year-old matriarch of a colony of African black-footed penguins.
Today, the non-profit Audubon Nature Institute, which operates the city zoo and aquarium, is under immense financial pressure. The challenges it faces are symptomatic of struggles throughout the state's $9.9 billion hospitality industry, nowhere more than in New Orleans, which historically counted on visitors for $5.5 billion in annual revenue and 85,000 jobs. Tourism is New Orleans' biggest business and the state's second-largest after oil and gas. It generates $600 million a year in state and local taxes.
Angle Davis, Louisiana's secretary of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, estimates the hurricane cost Louisiana $2 billion in visitor spending. Davis says the damage does not end there. In a survey of key visitor markets, her department found that 34% of prospective visitors are less interested in visiting the state than before Katrina; 62% believe the state is less scenic; and only one in five leisure travelers were willing to schedule a trip during hurricane season, which begins June 1.
In uptown New Orleans, where National Guard troops camped after the hurricane, the Audubon Zoo reopened at Thanksgiving. But it loses money, including $3.9 million last year. The aquarium and its Entergy Imax theater downtown typically turn enough profit — $4.9 million in 2005 — to support the city's animal exhibits and its nature center in the eastern part of the city, which was destroyed.
Now, Audubon management must restock aquarium exhibits, rehire staff — after laying off 82% of its 267 workers Oct. 1 — and support debt service on $42 million in general-obligation bonds held by Wall Street investors without the benefit of a single paying customer. It also is hastening to finish $3.5 million in storm-related repairs.
A happy ending?
There might be a happy ending to this story yet. Children's voices are rising again in the French Quarter at a Catholic school whose students visit the aquarium each year.
Before Easter, they raised $600 in a coin-collection drive for the aquarium. Children, parents and teachers around the USA collected thousands of dollars more through bake sales, car washes and concerts. And several leading aquariums contributed their own gifts, including new sharks, stingrays and a school of blue runner.
What's more, penguins do fly. Next week, the Aquarium of the Americas' 19 penguins and two sea otters — rescued days after the storm, hungry and hot, and evacuated to California's Monterey Bay Aquarium for safekeeping — are arriving home on a specially equipped jet, courtesy of FedEx.
The New Orleans aquarium is scheduled to reopen May 26 amid signs that tourists and conventioneers are ready again to look to this city as a destination rather than as a point of escape.
Mardi Gras festivities in February and the Jazz Fest in April surpassed organizers' expectations though not past years' results. In June, the city convention center will host the first major conference since the storm. In September, the Superdome returns to action, hosting an ESPN Monday Night Football game.
"Visitors will come back to New Orleans," says Stephen Perry, chief executive of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The real question is, what will be the pace at which people return?" It is a big question. The answer will make all the difference to the local hospitality industry's ability to survive, and lead the state's recovery from Katrina.
The governor-appointed Louisiana Recovery Authority, which is marshalling state comeback efforts, plans to spend about 10% of an expected $332 million in federal economic aid to promote tourism.
Past tourism campaigns returned $16 for each $1 spent, says Davis, the state tourism secretary. The state also is spending about $7 million on a print and TV advertising campaign it calls "Fall in Love with Louisiana All Over Again," featuring endorsements by such celebrities as John Goodman, Wynton Marsalis and Allen Toussaint.
After the storm
New Orleans' central business district looks much as it did before the storm. Banks, brokerages, restaurants and stores bustle during the day. Night life in the French Quarter burns almost till dawn. But Katrina's scars are everywhere:
• Only 41% of New Orleans' world-renowned restaurants are open, according to Tom Weatherly, a spokesman for the Louisiana Restaurant Association.
"It is mostly the independent restaurateurs that have been able to get up and running, and basically the ones that had to. This is their only market," Weatherly says.
• The convention bureau expects to host one-third the number of major shows and only half its normal number of attendees this year, says Fitch Ratings public finance analyst Steve Murray.
• With up to three-quarters of the Big Easy's rooms available, hotel occupancy rates rose as high as 80% in the winter. But government contractors who filled those rooms are getting ready to leave, meaning occupancy rates will fall again.
Historically, business travelers represented only 10% of the city's hospitality business. Since Katrina, they have constituted 90% of the visitor market, according to visitors bureau CEO Perry.
• And though Mardi Gras was hailed widely as a triumph for a city that so recently confronted tragedy, this year's crowds were two-thirds of pre-Katrina levels, reducing direct visitor spending by one-half to $200 million. Many hotels and restaurants have trouble even finding workers.
Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, La., an hour's drive west of New Orleans, was on pace to host a record 250,000 visitors last year but ended up with 181,000, says proprietor Zeb Mayhew Jr. Attendance at the plantation this year is one-quarter of pre-storm levels. "It is definitely survival mode," he says.
Mayhew believes New Orleans is in better shape than most visitors perceive and that the tourism industry is rebounding "slower than it needs to." Says Mayhew: "On the one hand, you can't paint a rosy picture because you really do have problems. On the other, the part of the city that tourists would come to is fine, and something they can enjoy. ... Somehow there's got to be a separation of those two realities."
The reopened aquarium will bring back some of the tourists necessary to support what Perry calls "the working middle-class of New Orleans: the chefs in the restaurants, the doormen at hotels, the jazz musicians, really the entirety of the cultural economy."
But it will be a more embattled aquarium than before. One of the Audubon Nature Institute's chief concerns is how to pay its investor debt, which Fitch Ratings has downgraded to non-investment-grade junk status. A default on its bonds, which the state-chartered New Orleans Board of Liquidation issued on the city's behalf, would badly impair the ability of the city and state to borrow on Wall Street.
Dale Stastny, the institute's chief operating officer, says the aquarium has about $2 million in cash and a $25 million endowment, which it doesn't want to touch, to meet its immediate obligations. It also will receive a share of city property tax receipts, though this year's tax bills haven't been issued.
"All we need before October is a little less than 20% of the normal (property tax) collections to come in, and we'll have enough to cover debt service," Stastny says. He says the aquarium probably will have to restructure its debt to rebuild its cash cushion and make up for what is expected to be a large, ongoing deficit in city tax receipts.
That's where the children are pitching in. In the Vieux Carré, or French Quarter, the Cathedral Academy — which has educated children since 1718 — was the city's first school to reopen, on Oct. 17.
Sister Mary Rose Bingham, the principal, says she did not know how many children to expect. But the school's registered rolls doubled the pre-storm total to 237 students, swelled by the children of law enforcement workers temporarily living aboard a cruise ship on the Mississippi River. At last count, students from 28 schools across the metropolitan area were enrolled at the academy.
Each day, Bingham and the children walk around the French Quarter. She says she has watched the city struggle to regain its footing.
"The adults that live here who are running small businesses and large businesses really need tourists to come back," Bingham says. "I tell my friends and family: If you want to donate, get on a plane and come down to New Orleans and spend money. Because then you're helping not only this school but the hotels, the restaurants and all the tourist attractions."
To aid the aquarium, the school's students from kindergartners to eighth-graders began to bring in coins they collected in jars and plastic bags. Some children donated their money for snacks.
It swiftly added up.
"Everyone can do something, and that's what I wanted our children to know. Even though you might not have a home, or anything, we all can do something," Bingham says. "We were hoping that perhaps some others would hear about what these children had done, and maybe they would help."
Help from kids across USA
Across the USA, children were helping, according to aquarium spokeswoman Melissa Lee:
• In Kansas, Wichita High School East and Robinson Middle School held a concert, raffle and silent auction that raised $5,000 for the aquarium and zoo.
• In Plano, Texas, the parents of 12-year-old Nick Epstein, a penguin lover who died of a stroke, directed gifts to the Dallas World Aquarium, which forwarded the money to New Orleans. Total: $1,753.
• In Culver City, Calif., the second-grade class at Willows Community School created hand-drawn note cards that they sold as gifts, raising $1,600.
• In Montgomery, Ala., 6-year-old twins Wylie and Spangler Edwards had their friends donate to help New Orleans animals and fish life rather than buy them birthday presents. Total donated: $805.
• In Trumbull, Conn., third-graders at the Nichols United Methodist Church school raised $410 with a bake sale and lemonade stand.
And in New Orleans, a dozen young mothers whose children play together donated $400. Leila Garnard, one of the mothers, says, "It just broke my heart" to know that her daughter Whitney "though she's 1 year old — and doesn't know the aquarium or the zoo — she might never get to know it."
With the return to New Orleans of Patience and the aquarium's other temporarily displaced exhibits, the city is getting back a part of its life, as it did when the first children returned in October. Bingham says, "Even old men would come up to us on the sidewalk and say, 'Thank you for bringing the children back. It's been so quiet without them.' "
The penguins add their own waddle and feistiness.
Christina Slager, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's curator, who formerly worked in New Orleans and has known Patience for nearly 20 years, says, "They recognize human beings. They recognize individuals. And they form opinions. They like some of their caregivers. They don't like others so much. I'm sure they will remember the people they are returning to in New Orleans. It will be a nice homecoming."


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When I tell people I publish a magazine about the Internet retailing industry, they sometimes wonder whether such an industry still exists-given the demise of so many dot-com merchants in the last year. My response is straightforward: Do not confuse a market shakeout with a market debacle. The demise of legions of dot-coms, I am quick to add, is simply the result of too many competitors chasing a market that is growing fast, but not fast enough to support the number of players trying to gain a foothold in it.
Look at the history of any major new market, and you see the same trend repeating itself. At the on-set of the "revolution" that creates the market, there is a flood of new companies to exploit it. That is followed by a classical industry shakeout where the weaker players are eliminated and the more efficient players grow and prosper, until ultimately only a handful of giants remain in the field. So it was with oil, steel, railroads, and automobiles during the American industrial revolution. The same trend occurred in the service economy of the second half of the American century. The fast-food phenomenon of the 1950s and 1960s created a rush to the consumer and stock markets that was not unlike the dot-com gold rush. It was followed in the 1970s by a shakeout that cleared the fast-food landscape. Remember Burger Queen, Burger Chef, Lums, Red Barn, Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken, and Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips? They and dozens of other weak operators failed, while McDonald's and other stronger chains survived-and created a dine-out industry that has made home cooking a lost art.
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LONDON (AFP) – A puppeteer in Britain has been rapped for portraying Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein as villains, a report said.
American-born Brent de Witt, 41, has been scolded for using the pair's characters in the traditional children's puppet play, Punch and Judy.
The show had crowds in fits of laughter — but a few dissenters at the seafront in Broadstairs, southeast England, failed to see the joke.
"I put them in the show as villains who would go and steal Punch's sausages," De Witt told the Daily Express. "It was very topical and just a bit of fun.
"But then we had a few people who did not care for it and instead of telling me they went straight to the council.
"They sent word down for me to take the characters out of the show."
Osama bin Laden heads the Al-Qaeda global terror network, while ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is in US custody near Baghdad awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
Bin Laden, cast as the devil, is defeated by Mr Punch in traditional fashion: clobbered with a stick.
Something is definitely wrong in the world when Bin Laden, who has threatened to destroy Britain, can be defended by anyone in Britain as "not a villain." The council (presumably town council) of Broadstairs should have told the complainers to shove it. Would the complainers have been incensed by a silly portrayal of Bush or Blair in the Punch and Judy puppet show? Likely not.
Britain went to war to oust Saddam's barbaric regime – agree with the war or not, Saddam is a barbaric thug, a "villain" in just about anyone's book. Portraying him in a Punch and Judy show may show a lack of discretion, but portraying him as a villain anywhere is completely justifiable.
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