The next episode will be on ITV, at 8pm on Saturday November 19. The results show is on ITV on Sunday 20 November at 8pm.
What is the theme for the seventh live show? And what are the song choices?
Movie week is upon us, which is a welcome relief after the shambles of Disco Week. The theme was announced during a fun link-up with Ant & Dec in Australia. This basically means the acts can sing whatever the hell they want, and Louis Walsh will claim the song was featured in Jeepers Creepers 7. As for the song choices, we'll have to wait until later in the week to find those out.
Britain must “adapt to the moment and evolve its thinking” to become a global leader in free trade, Theresa May is to say.
The prime minister will pledge to lead the charge in remaking globalisation, days after Donald Trump was elected US president on the promise of protecting American industry and ending a string of free trade agreements.
May’s speech will be seen as an attempt to reposition the UK after the Brexit vote and the US presidential election and as a response to Nigel Farage becoming the first UK politician to meet the president-elect over the weekend.
“Not standing inflexibly, refusing to change and still fighting the battles of the past, but adapting to the moment, evolving our thinking and seizing the opportunities ahead. That is the kind of leadership we need today,” May will tell the lord mayor’s banquet in London.
Her speech follows reports that British ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, wrote a memo immediately after Trump’s victory that suggested Trump would be “open to outside influence” and that “better relationships” with his team meant that Britain would be uniquely placed to take advantage.
During his election campaign, Trump argued repeatedly that the pursuit of free trade policies had predicated the collapse of homegrown manufacturing industry, bringing cheap consumer goods at the expense of American jobs.
He has since appeared to row back on a number of campaign promises, and in his first TV interview since being elected he told CBS’s 60 Minutes programme on Sunday night there “could be some fencing” in his proposed border wall with Mexico.
Trump said up to 3 million “illegal immigrants” – including those “with criminal records, gang members and drug dealers” – could be deported or jailed after his inauguration in January.
Less than a week after the victory of the real estate billionaire, whose own business dealings have come under repeated scrutiny, May’s speech will warn about the undermining of the social contract when “a minority of businesses and business figures appear to game the system and work to a different set of rules”.
Businesses and governments must change to regain that trust, she is to say, “not just to do business but to do that business in the right way.
“Asking business to work with government to play its part is profoundly pro-business, because it is fundamental to retaining faith in capitalism and free markets. To be the true global champion of free trade in this new modern world, we also need to do something to help those families and communities who can actually lose out from it.”
Britain cannot afford to stand still in the era of such vast and sweeping changes to political orthodoxy, May will say at London’s Guildhall. “So often over our long history, this country has set the template for others to follow.
“We have so often been the pioneer – the outrider – that has acted to usher in a new idea or approach. And we have that same opportunity today.”
The prime minister will say she will be unrepentant in her argument that free markets and free trade are the best remedy for poverty, but that the government “can also do much more to ensure the prosperity they provide is shared by all”.
May will say that Britain has an opportunity “to show that our departure from the European Union is not – as some people have wrongly argued – Britain stepping back from the world, but an example of how a free, flexible, ambitious country can step up to a new global role in which alongside the traditional trading blocs; agile nation states like Britain can trade freely with others according to what’s in their own best interests and those of their people.
“This is a new direction – a new approach to managing the forces of globalisation so that they work for all – and it is the course on which the government I lead has embarked.”
May’s speech comes after Farage claimed Trump’s team had raised concerns with him about hostile comments made by British ministers about Trump’s presidential campaign. Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, and both May’s joint chiefs of staff have also criticised Trump.
Farage met the president-elect for an hour on Saturday night at Trump Tower in New York, posing for a grinning photograph with Trump in front of a pair of ostentatious gold doors. He was the first foreign politician to meet Trump since his election, and the pair discussed returning a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office.
The interim Ukip leader’s offer of serving as a go-between for the UK government and the Trump administration was roundly rebuffed by No 10. A Downing Street source said Farage’s activities in the US were an irrelevance. “We are not using Nigel Farage as a go-between for the very simple reason that he does not represent the government,” the source said. “He is an opposition politician.”
Another government minister said Farage was clearly “on a frolic of his own”, adding that high-level visits were already being planned. “Trump’s knowledge of foreign affairs is not probably his strongest suit, and he may not be fully aware that Farage is not an official member of the government, or representing the UK,” the source said.
The former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, a prominent leave campaigner, said Farage was “just trying to get attention” rather than representing British interests.
“This is an ego trip – not a diplomatic one,” Duncan Smith said. “While the PM focusses on sensible, measured diplomacy in Britain’s national interest, all Farage cares about is talking rubbish abroad.”
While some senior Conservatives have indicated that a lack of trust in Farage’s intentions makes a negotiating role impossible, a senior former cabinet minister told the Guardian that the Ukip leader’s help in forging a productive relationship with the new US administration should not be dismissed out of hand. “He is probably the most successful, non-machine party politician the country has seen in a long while,” the source said.
“Frankly, given what the political establishment have said about Trump, any help Nigel Farage is able to give Great Britain with the incoming administration should be welcomed. But the normal machinery of government and diplomacy clearly now kicks in.”
Speaking after the meeting with the president-elect, Farage said: “It was a great honour to spend time with Donald Trump. He was relaxed and full of good ideas. I’m confident he will be a good president. His support for the US-UK relationship is very strong. This is a man with whom we can do business.”
Johnson was absent from an emergency meeting of Europe’s foreign ministers in Brussels on Sunday, which had been called to hash out unified stance on Trump’s election.
Foreign Office sources insisted Johnson believed the meeting was unnecessary since there was a regular meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday, though his decision not to attend wwould be intended to send a signal that the UK’s loyalty would be to the special relationship rather than the EU.
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says U.S. President-elect Donald Trump poses risks for the relationship between the European Union and the United States.
Speaking to students at a conference in Luxemburg late Friday, Juncker said Trump must get up to speed on how Europe works in order to avoid "two years of wasted time" when he assumes the presidency in January.
"Generally speaking," Juncker said, "the political class and the U.S. in general take no interest at all in Europe. Mr. Trump has said during his campaign - I was just telling this to our president here - that Belgium is a little village in Europe. It's spot on if you look from very far, but it does not reflect the reality. So we have to teach the president-elect what Europe really is and how Europe works."
Juncker reminded his audience that Trump had called NATO into question, which could have "harmful consequences" because it is the model of Europe's defense.
"He called into question the Trans-Atlantic Alliance, which is actually quite pernicious, and so he questions the model of the defense of Europe," Juncker said. "With regards to refugees and non-American whites, Trump has an approach which in no way coincides with the convictions and feelings in Europe. I think that we will waste two years before Mr. Trump gets to know the parts of the world he is unaware of."
Juncker's blunt remarks reflected the shock and concern among some European leaders at the election of Trump, who has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, among other statements, and questioned the principle of collective defense in NATO.
During the U.S. election campaign, candidate Trump was also a vocal critic of the open border migration policies of some EU nations.
Juncker's comments contrasted with the more diplomatic reactions of other European leaders, who have said they look forward to working with the next Republican president.
On Wednesday, after Trump's victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk invited him to an EU-U.S. summit to discuss issues including terrorism and Ukraine.
PanARMENIAN.Net - J.K. Rowling has debunked rumor that the sequel to "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will be set "days after" the first movie, which hits U.S. theaters this Friday, November 18. The British author herself took to Twitter on Sunday, November 13 to make it clear that the setting rumor spread by Snitch Seeker is not true.
"This isn't correct, I'm afraid!" Rowling tweeted in response to Snitch Seeker's post claiming that the sequel would pick up "almost immediately after the first, or within weeks at most after the premiere installment." She clarified, "The sequel doesn't begin days after first movie ends (although we do go to Paris)."
In related news, David Yates reveals that he is not committed to directing the entire "Fantastic Beasts" sequels like previously reported. During an interview with Collider, Yates says that he will only sit behind the lens for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2".
"It's lovely being part of it and I love doing it," he shares, before elaborating, "How long will I stay with it I'd like to say I want to stay with it for the whole thing. The only thing that makes my knees wobble a little bit is just the sheer volume." "Five movies over eight years is a massive undertaking," he adds. "So I have to be careful that I'm able to give everything. If there's any point in that period where I go, 'You know what, it might be wise to step away for a bit,' I would, to give someone else a shot."
Though Warner Bros. has yet to officially announce Yates' continued involvement, this doesn't minimize the possibility of Yates directing the other three movies. As he recalls, "On Potter, once I'd done one, I enjoyed it so much I felt I had to do another one. Then to finish it, I couldn't let anyone finish it. I had to finish it. I was territorial. With this, especially as I've started it, I sort of... I don't know ... I feel committed to it."
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" stars Eddie Redmayne as magizoologist Newt Scamander and is supported by the likes of Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Ron Perlman, Alison Sudol, Carmen Ejogo, Jon Voight and Dan Fogler.
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