Georgina

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTributes are pouring in for Bafta-winning actor Georgina Hale after it was confirmed she had died earlier this month, at the age of 80. Hale was best known for her role in the original London production of Streaming, as well as her performances in the hit UK soaps Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. Filmmaker Ken Russell, who cast Hale as the leading lady in a number of his films, described her…

In 2010, Kevin Younger began an article in the Guardian with the words: “Recognise the faces but can’t place the names?” Among the list of Britain’s top 10 great unsung television character actors that followed was Georgina Hale. “This slinky, adenoidal, estuarine glamour-puss oozed naughtiness in some interesting films and some classic television in the 70s,” he wrote. “She has latterly cornered the market in nouveau riche languor and middle-aged decadence.”Although most of her screen roles were on television, Hale, who…

When is a £50bn fiscal black hole not a £50bn fiscal black hole? More often than you might think, according to a new book about government data that will leave readers with renewed cynicism about every statistic that comes out of a politician’s mouth.Its author, Georgina Sturge, is a statistician at the House of Commons library. She has not set out here to expose attempts by rogue actors to bamboozle us deliberately with figures – although there are plenty of them. Instead, even more alarmingly, Bad Data explains how the…