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City approves settlement agreement with owner of Mountain Water
By Martin KidstonJune 1, 2017
June 1, 2017 By cmsadmin
Missoula Mayor John Engen describes the terms of the settlement agreement reached between the city and Liberty Utilities Co., owner of Mountain Water Co., during a special meeting of the City Council on Thursday, June 1, 2017. (Martin Kidston/Missoula Current)
In a special meeting Thursday, the Missoula City Council approved a settlement agreement with the owner of Mountain Water Co., along with a bond resolution to pay for the system's purchase, expected to take place later this month.
Mayor John Engen used the occasion to praise the diligence of his staff and the majority of the city's elected officials, and to place a political punctuation mark on a process that has taken several years to resolve (read his full statement here).
"A privately held monopoly operating a water system for profit and the benefit of distant investors will never serve the long-term interest of the public it should serve," Engen said. "What we've seen under global corporate management is increased rates, higher profits taken from the community, and decreased investment in the critical infrastructure that supports Missoula."
The agreement reached between the city and Liberty Utilities Co. effectively ends all litigation pending in Missoula District Court and lays the groundwork for a smooth transition of the utility from private to public ownership.
However, the agreement does not preclude the former owner, The Carlyle Group, from appealing interest and attorney fees, nor does it stop Liberty from appealing a Montana Supreme Court ruling on property taxes.
The city also reserves its right to pursue appropriate claims against Carlyle.
"It ends everything that is pending in District Court right now," said Natasha Jones, an attorney representing the city in the case. "What is left are reserved claims by The Carlyle Group, and those will proceed to the Montana Supreme Court for eventual resolution on interest, attorney fees and taxes."
Jones said she is confident the city will prevail before the state's high court.
"We're highly confident in the outcome of the Supreme Court and believe the result will be similar, in that every time this case has been presented to the Supreme Court, the court has been favorable to the city," Jones said.
The settlement agreement includes $93.2 million to cover acquisition and other costs. Of that, Mountain Water will receive $83.8 million for the purchase while area developers who invested in the system will receive $6.8 million.
An additional $1.1 million will be placed in escrow to cover Carlyle's attorney fees – an amount the global equity firm is protesting before the state's high court. Other fees cover additional aspects of the deal.
Natasha Jones, and attorney with Boone Karlberg, has represented the city in its legal fight over Mountain Water Co. from the start. On Thursday, Jones explained the details of the settlement that effectively brings the case to a close. (Martin Kidston/Missoula Current)
"What Liberty has agreed to do is assist the city as we transition ownership," Jones said. "That's everything from the telephone services in place, billing, and setting up the city's own independent customer service and billing software system," Jones said.
That agreement will last for 60 days following possession, which is expected to take place around June 22. The city's attorneys plan to file motions in Missoula District Court on Friday to get the court's approval on the agreement and close the case.
The City Council also approved two separate bond resolutions in a principal amount not to exceed $140 million. That includes roughly $2.9 million to cover any unexpected litigation costs in the event Carlyle prevails before the Supreme Court, and the cost of future capital improvements to the system.
In a statement delivered before Thursday's hearing, Engen maintained that Carlyle had long neglected the system, shifting profits back to corporate stock holders instead of investing in the utility.
As it stands, he said, the system needs $100 million in investments to bring it back to industry standards. He said the city will make such investments as the new owner of Missoula Water.
"Because of public ownership, and the commitment to raise rates only when necessary to operate and improve the system in the public interest, those investments will be made over time," Engen said. "The system will operate to the appropriate standards, and the public will be served for generations to come by local, accountable elected governance."


This morning 6th grade made us all proud in their Playoff game.
Against all odds, these boys made a game of it against top-seeded Milford — they were in it to the end giving them a big-time scare. This team beat us by over 20 points earlier in the season. Our group has come a long way and improved tremendously led by Coach Judah.


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The luxury brand of Hilton, the Waldorf Astoria, has arrived in Berlin. The first new build hotel of this premium brand in Europe is located in the Hardenbergstrasse, Berlin City-West.
The Waldorf Astoria Belin offers 242 rooms and suites with outstanding luxury interiors. One of the highlights of the "Deluxe"-rooms is the terrific view over the skyline of Berlin. Having supplied the luminaires for this legendary hotel, Baulmann Leuchten takes pride in being part of this project.


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Jonathan Wright ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Jonathan Wright (Fußballspieler) (1880–1944), englischer Fußballspieler
 Jonathan Wright (Historiker, 1941) (* 1941), britischer Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler
 Jonathan Wright (Historiker, 1969) (* 1969), britischer Religionshistoriker
 Jonathan Wright (Regisseur) (* 1970) in Liverpool, britischer Regisseur
 Jonathan H. Wright, US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler

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Fernwood Baptist Church, in partnership with TOTAL Ministries, distributed over 6000 pounds of food on April 29.
There were 360 families that were served with this Mobile Food Pantry. There is such a critical need in our community for food right now, especially with rising gas prices.
Pictured left to right: Russell Broome, Clarence Batts, Cleon-Second Harvest Food Bank driver, Susan Plemmons, her grandson Colin and Robert Hendrix.


Laptop manufacturers spend a lot of time tuning their device drivers for Windows battery life. Linux usually doesn't get the same attention. Linux may perform just as well as Windows on the same hardware, but it won't necessarily have as much battery life.
Linux's battery usage has improved dramatically over the years. The Linux kernel has gotten better, and Linux distributions automatically adjust many settings when you're using a laptop. But you can still do some things to improve your battery life.
Before you do anything too complex, adjust the same settings you would on a Windows laptop or MacBook to maximize battery life.
For example, tell your Linux laptop to suspend—this is what Linux calls sleep mode—more quickly when you're not using it. You'll find this option in your Linux desktop's settings. For example, head to System Settings > Power on an Ubuntu desktop.
Screen brightness can affect battery life dramatically. The brighter your display backlight, the worse your battery life will be. If your laptop has hotkeys to change screen brightness, try them—they'll hopefully work on Linux, too. If not, you'll find this option somewhere in your Linux desktop's settings. It's available at System Settings > Brightness & Lock on Ubuntu.
You can also tell your Linux desktop to turn off the screen more quickly when it's inactive. The laptop will use less power when its screen is off. Don't use a screensaver, as those just waste power by making your computer do more work and leaving the display on.
You can also disable hardware radios you don't use. For example, if you don't use Bluetooth, you can disable it to gain some more battery life. Head to System Settings > Bluetooth to disable Bluetooth on an Ubuntu desktop.
If you're not using Wi-Fi, you can save a bit of power by disabling that, too. On Ubuntu, head to System Settings > Network and enable "Airplane Mode" to disable Wi-Fi and other wireless radios.
Remember that what you do with the laptop is also important. Running heavier software and using more CPU resources will cause your laptop to use more battery power. For this reason, you may want to look at a more lightweight desktop environment, such as the Lxde-based Lubuntu instead of the Unity-based main Ubuntu desktop.
If your laptop has integrated Intel graphics, congratulations. You shouldn't need to worry about power management issues with your graphics drivers. Intel graphics aren't the fastest, but they have excellent open-source driver support and "just work" out of the box.
If your laptop has NVIDIA or AMD graphics, however, you may need to do some work to decrease power consumption.
The worst case scenario is a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus or AMD's switchable graphics. Such laptops have two different GPUs. For example, an NVIDIA Optimus laptop will have both a more powerful, battery-draining NVIDIA GPU and a less powerful, battery-friendly Intel GPU. On Windows, where this is properly supported, the laptop is designed to use the Intel graphics until you play a game, when the NVIDIA graphics kicks in.
When you install a Linux distribution on an NVIDIA Optimus laptop, your laptop will use the NVIDIA graphics all the time by default, draining your battery. You'll need to install NVIDIA's Linux drivers and set up Optimus—look for the nvidia-prime package on Ubuntu—to make things work properly. On some laptops, you may also be able to enter the BIOS or UEFI firmware settings screen and disable your discrete GPU to force Linux to use only onboard graphics without any additional tweaks.
Even if you don't have a dual-GPU, switchable graphics setup, you may benefit from installing the proprietary NVIDIA or AMD graphics drivers. They may enable access to power-saving features that don't work in the standard open-source drivers.
If you're struggling with battery life, it's possible you need to replace your laptop's battery. All batteries will deteriorate over time, gradually holding less power than they did when they left the factory.
For example, on Ubuntu, you can open the Power Statistics application from the Dash. Look at the "Laptop battery" section. "Energy when full" is how much power your battery can currently store when it's fully charged. "Energy (design)" is how much power your battery could originally store when it's fully charged.
This means the battery currently holds 82.5% of its original capacity. That's not too bad. You won't be at 100% unless you just purchased a new laptop. But if it's low—under 50%, for example—and you aren't getting much time out of your battery, you may just need to replace the battery.
If you don't have the Power Statistics application on your Linux distribution, you can get this information via a few terminal commands.
This means the battery is currently at 82.5% of its original factory capacity.
That's all the low-hanging fruit. There are many low-level tweaks you can make to slightly affect battery life, but they're generally a lot of work for not much payoff. There are a variety of tools that promise to help you with your battery life, but they're less useful than they once were a few years ago. Linux distributions automatically configure various settings to function well on laptops.
Intel's open-source PowerTOP utility will examine your system and see how well various power-saving features are enabled, even providing some suggestions for how to reduce your system's power consumption. It's a command-line tool, so you'll need to run it from there. You'll usually find it in your Linux distribution's software repositories.
If you're really struggling and need more battery life, you can install TLP. It's designed to be a single package of aggressive battery life tweaks. It's available in Ubuntu's software repositories as well. Just install it and restart your system—that's it. TLP automatically starts at boot and enables its default power-saving tweaks.
For example, TLP will more aggressively suspend USB devices, park your hard drive's heads, and throttle your CPU. These may not be ideal tweaks if you already have solid battery life on your Linux laptop, but they may be helpful if you're struggling to squeeze more battery time out of your system.
You probably shouldn't mess with TLP if you're happy with your laptop's battery life. But it's a good last-resort option that beats manually enabling all these aggressive tweaks. There are other tools like TLP, but you can only use one at a time. They change most of the same settings under the hood.


After working for eight years as local promoter for Eindhoven's leading venue De Effenaar, Tom recently moved to Greenhouse Talent Netherlands. At Greenhouse he is working as promoter and booker. His new talent roster includes artists like Hidden Charms, Lili Grace and PAUS. Tom is also organiser and booker of the Ardennes festival La Truite Magique.


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"THRUSH" redirects here. For other uses, see Thrush (disambiguation).
For the 2015 film adaptation, see The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (film).
Spy fiction
Sam Rolfe
Norman Felton
David McCallum
Leo G. Carroll
Theme music composer
Jerry Goldsmith
No. of seasons
No. of episodes
105 (list of episodes)
Executive producer(s)
Camera setup
Single-camera
Production company(s)
Arena Productions
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Original network
Black-and-white (1964–1965)
(1965–1968) 4:3
Monaural
September 22, 1964 (1964-09-22) – January 15, 1968 (1968-01-15)
Related shows
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction television series broadcast on NBC. It follows secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a secret international counter-espionage and law enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. Originally, co-creator Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of U.N.C.L.E. ambiguous so it could refer to either "Uncle Sam" or the United Nations.[1] Concerns by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) legal department about using "U.N." for commercial purposes resulted in the producers' clarification that U.N.C.L.E. was an acronym for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.[2] Each episode had an "acknowledgement" to the U.N.C.L.E. in the end titles.
The series premiered on September 22, 1964 and discontinued its run on January 15, 1968.
The series consisted of 105 episodes originally screened between 1964 and 1968. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Arena productions. The first season was produced in black-and-white.
Ian Fleming contributed to the concepts after being approached by the show's co-creator, Norman Felton.[3] The book The James Bond Films says Fleming proposed two characters, Napoleon Solo and April Dancer (The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.). The original name was Ian Fleming's Solo.[4] Robert Towne, Sherman Yellen, and Harlan Ellison wrote scripts for the series. Author Michael Avallone, who wrote the first original novelisation based upon the series (see below), is sometimes incorrectly cited as the show's creator.
Solo was to have been the focus, but a scene featuring a Russian agent named Illya Kuryakin drew enthusiasm from the fans and the agents were paired.[5]
Solo and Kuryakin.
The series centered on a two-man troubleshooting team working for U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement): American Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), and Soviet Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum). Leo G. Carroll played Alexander Waverly, an English head of the organization. Barbara Moore joined the cast as Lisa Rogers in the fourth season.
The series, though fictional, achieved such cultural prominence that props, costumes and documents, and a video clip are in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's exhibit on spies and counterspies. Similar U.N.C.L.E. exhibits are in the museums of the Central Intelligence Agency and other US agencies and organizations gathering intelligence.
UNCLE: The organization
Main article: U.N.C.L.E.
U.N.C.L.E. is an acronym for the fictional United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, a secret international intelligence agency, consisting of agents of all nationalities.
THRUSH: The main adversary
U.N.C.L.E.'s primary adversary was THRUSH (WASP in the pilot movie). The original series never divulged who or what THRUSH represented, nor was it ever used as an acronym except in the U.N.C.L.E. novels written by David McDaniel; it is the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity,[6] described as having been founded by Col. Sebastian Moran after the death of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in the Sherlock Holmes story, The Final Problem.
THRUSH's aim was to conquer the world. Napoleon Solo said, in "The Green Opal Affair", "THRUSH believes in the two-party system — the masters and the slaves," and in the pilot episode ("The Vulcan Affair"), THRUSH "kills people the way people kill flies — a reflex action — a flick of the wrist." THRUSH was considered so dangerous an organization that even governments who were ideologically opposed to each other — such as the United States and the Soviet Union — had cooperated in forming and operating the U.N.C.L.E. organization. Similarly, when Solo and Kuryakin held opposing political views, the friction between them in the story was held to a minimum. Although executive producer Norman Felton and Ian Fleming conceived Napoleon Solo, it was producer Sam Rolfe who created the U.N.C.L.E. hierarchy. Unlike national organizations like the CIA and James Bond's MI6, U.N.C.L.E. was a global organization of agents from many countries and cultures. Illya Kuryakin was created by Rolfe as just such an agent, from the Soviet Union.
The creators decided an innocent character would be featured in each episode, giving the audience someone with whom to identify.[3] Despite many changes over four seasons, "innocents" remained a constant — from a suburban housewife in the pilot, "The Vulcan Affair" (film version: To Trap a Spy) to those kidnapped in the final episode, "The Seven Wonders of the World Affair".
Main article: List of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes
Solo-the pilot
Filmed in color from late November to early December 1963 with locations at a Lever Brothers soap factory in California, the television pilot made as a 70 minute film was originally titled Ian Fleming's Solo and later just Solo. However, in February 1964 a law firm representing James Bond movie producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli demanded an end to the use of Fleming's name in connection with the series and an end to use of the name and character "Solo", "Napoleon Solo" and "Mr. Solo". At that time filming was under way for the Bond movie Goldfinger, in which Martin Benson was playing a supporting character named "Mr. Solo". The claim was the name "Solo" had been sold to them by Fleming, and Fleming could not again use it. Within five days Fleming had signed an affidavit that nothing in the Solo pilot infringed any of his Bond characters, but the threat of legal action resulted in a settlement in which the name Napoleon Solo could be kept but the title of the show had to change.
The role of the head of U.N.C.L.E. in the pilot was Mr. Allison, played by Will Kuluva, rather than Mr. Waverly played by Leo G. Carroll, and David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin only had a brief role. Revisions to some scenes were shot for television, including those needed to feature Leo G. Carroll. The pilot episode was re-edited to 50 minutes to fit an hour time slot, converted to black and white, and shown on television as "The Vulcan Affair".
NBC in New York was not happy with the pilot. An executive wanted to drop someone but could not remember his name, saying "K...K..." and Felton replied "Kuluva?" and the executive replied "'That's it.'" Felton did not argue as he wanted to replace Kuluva anyway. Felton later told the executives he wanted to replace Kuluva with Leo G. Carroll. When the executive asked who was the actor Leo G. Carroll had replaced, Felton responded "Will Kuluva" and the executive said he meant David McCallum — Kuryakin. He wanted to get rid of the Russian and thought Carroll too old to be Solo's sidekick. Felton said the contracts had been signed.
Additional color sequences with Luciana Paluzzi were shot in April 1964 and added to the pilot for MGM to release it outside the United States as a second feature titled To Trap a Spy.[7] It premiered in Hong Kong in November 1964. The extra scenes were reedited to tone down sexuality and used in the regular series in the episode "The Four-Steps Affair".
Beyond extra scenes for the feature film, and revised scenes shot and edits made for the television episode, there are other differences among the three versions of the story. Before the show went into full production there was concern from MGM that the name of T.H.R.U.S.H. for the pilot's international criminal organization sounded too much like SMERSH, the international spy- killing organization in Fleming's Bond series. The studio suggested Raven, Shark, Squid, Vulture, Tarantula, Snipe, Sphinx, Dooom [sic], and Maggot (the last used in early scripts). Although no legal action took place, the name was dubbed as "WASP" in the feature version To Trap a Spy. The original pilot kept T.H.R.U.S.H. (presumably as it was not intended to be released to the public in that version). Felton and Rolfe pushed for the reinstatement of T.H.R.U.S.H. It turned out that WASP could not be used as Gerry Anderson's British television series Stingray was based on an organization called W.A.S.P. — the World Aquanaut Security Patrol. By May 1964, T.H.R.U.S.H. was retained for the television episode edit of the pilot. Despite this, W.A.S.P. was used in the feature film in Japan in late 1964 and left in the U.S. release in 1966. Another change among the three versions of the pilot story was the cover name for the character of Elaine May Donaldson. In the original pilot it was Elaine Van Nessen; in the television version as well as the feature version it was Elaine Van Every. Illya Kuryakin's badge number is 17 in the pilot rather than 2 during the series. And Solo's hair, after new footage was added, changed back and forth from a slicked back style to the less severe style he wore throughout the series.
With the popularity of the show and the spy craze, To Trap a Spy and the second U.N.C.L.E. feature The Spy with My Face were released in the USA as an MGM double feature in early 1966.
Vaughn and a young Kurt Russell in "The Finny Foot Affair".
The show's first season was in black and white. Rolfe created a kind of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland world, where mundane everyday life would intermittently intersect with the looking-glass fantasy of international espionage which lay just beyond. The U.N.C.L.E. universe was one where the weekly "innocent" would get caught up in a series of fantastic adventures, in a battle of good and evil. Rolfe also blended deadly suspense with a light touch, reminiscent of Hitchcock. In fact, U.N.C.L.E. owes just as much to Alfred Hitchcock as it does to Ian Fleming, the touchstones being Notorious (1946) where an innocent is recruited by a professional spy organization and North by Northwest (1959), where an innocent man is mistaken for an agent of a top-secret organization, one of whose top members is played by Leo G. Carroll. This role led directly to Carroll being cast as Mr. Waverly in the show.[3]
U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City was most frequently entered by a secret entrance in Del Floria's Tailor Shop. Another entrance was through The Masque Club. Mr. Waverly had his own secret entrance. Unlike the other TV series I Spy (also on NBC) however, the shows were overwhelmingly shot on the MGM back lot.[8] The same building with an imposing exterior staircase was used for episodes set throughout the Mediterranean area and Latin America, and the same dirt road lined with eucalyptus trees on the back lot in Culver City stood in for virtually every continent of the globe. The episodes followed a naming convention where each title was in the form of "The ***** Affair", such as "The Vulcan Affair", "The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair", and "The Waverly Ring Affair", etc. The only exception was "Alexander the Greater Affair," parts 1 & 2. The first season episode "The Green Opal Affair" establishes that U.N.C.L.E. itself uses the term "Affair" to refer to its different missions.
Rolfe endeavored to make the implausible elements in the series seem not only feasible but entertaining. In the series, frogmen emerge from wells in Iowa, shootouts occur between U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH agents in a crowded Manhattan movie theater, and top-secret organizations are hidden behind innocuous brownstone facades. The series began to dabble in science fictional plots, beginning with "The Double Affair" in which a THRUSH agent, made to look like Solo through plastic surgery, infiltrates a secret U.N.C.L.E. facility where an immensely powerful weapon called "Project Earthsave" is stored; according to the dialogue, the weapon was developed to protect against a potential alien threat to Earth. The Spy with My Face was the theatrical film version of this episode.
In its first season The Man from U.N.C.L.E. competed against The Red Skelton Show on CBS and Walter Brennan's short-lived The Tycoon on ABC. During this time producer Norman Felton told Alan Caillou and several of the series writers to make the show more tongue in cheek.[9]
David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin.
Switching to color, U.N.C.L.E. continued to enjoy huge popularity. Succeeding Rolfe, who left the show at the conclusion of the first season, new showrunner David Victor read articles that called the show a spoof, and consequently that is what it became. Over the next three seasons, five different show runners would supervise the U.N.C.L.E. franchise, and each one took the show in a direction that differed considerably from that of the first season. Furthermore, U.N.C.L.E. had spawned a swarm of imitators. In 1964, it was the only American spy show on U.S. TV; by 1966, there were nearly a dozen. In an attempt to emulate the success of ABC's mid-season hit Batman, which had proved hugely popular with its debut in early 1966, U.N.C.L.E. moved swiftly towards self-parody and slapstick.[5]
This campiness was most evident during the third season, when the producers made a conscious decision to increase the level of humor, though season two had moved in this direction in episodes such as "The Yukon Affair" and "The Indian Affairs Affair."[5] With episodes like "The My Friend the Gorilla Affair" (which featured a scene in which Solo is shown dancing with a gorilla), the show tested the loyalties of its fans. This new direction resulted in a severe ratings drop, and nearly resulted in the show's cancellation. It was renewed for a fourth season and an attempt was made to go back to serious storytelling, but the ratings never recovered and U.N.C.L.E. was cancelled midway through the season.[5]
Reunion TV movie
Main article: Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
A reunion telefilm, Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. subtitled The Fifteen Years Later Affair, was broadcast on CBS in America on April 5, 1983, with Vaughn and McCallum reprising their roles, and Patrick Macnee replacing Leo G. Carroll, who had died in 1972, as the head of U.N.C.L.E. A framed picture of Carroll appeared on his desk. The movie included a tribute to Ian Fleming via a cameo appearance by an unidentified secret agent with the initials "J.B." The part was played by George Lazenby who was shown driving James Bond's trademark vehicle, an Aston Martin DB5. One character, identifying him, says that it is "just like On Her Majesty's Secret Service", which was Lazenby's only Bond film.
The movie, written by Michael Sloan and directed by Ray Austin, briefly filled in the missing years. T.H.R.U.S.H. has been put out of business, and the remaining leader was in prison. (His escape begins the story.) Illya, who quit U.N.C.L.E. after a mission went sour and an innocent woman was killed, now designs women's clothing at Vanya's in New York. Napoleon was pushed out of U.N.C.L.E., and now is employed selling computers. He still carries his U.N.C.L.E. pen radio for sentimental reasons and this is how the organization is able to contact him after so many years.
Solo and Kuryakin are recalled to recapture the escapee and defeat T.H.R.U.S.H. once and for all, but the movie misfired on a key point: instead of reuniting the agents on the mission and showcasing their witty interaction, the agents were separated and paired with younger agents. Like most similar reunion films, this production was considered a trial balloon for a possible new series which, unfortunately, never materialized.
Although some personnel from the original series were involved (like composer Gerald Fried and director of photography Fred Koenekamp), the movie was not produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but by Michael Sloan Productions in association with Viacom Productions - Sloan, Vaughn, and McCallum are pictured in the Michael Sloan Productions vanity card at the end of the movie.
Spin-off: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The series was popular enough to generate a spin-off series, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. The "girl" was first introduced during "The Moonglow Affair" (February 25, 1966) an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and was then played by Mary Ann Mobley. The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. spin-off series ran for one season, starring Stefanie Powers as agent "April Dancer", a character name credited to Ian Fleming, and Noel Harrison as agent Mark Slate. There was some crossover between the two shows, and Leo G. Carroll played Mr. Waverly in both programs, becoming the second actor in American television to star as the same character in two separate series.
The theme music, written by Jerry Goldsmith, changed slightly each season.[10] Goldsmith provided only three original scores and was succeeded by Morton Stevens, who composed four scores for the series. After Stevens, Walter Scharf did six scores, and Lalo Schifrin did two. Gerald Fried was composer from season two through the beginning of season four. The final composers were Robert Drasnin (who also scored episodes of Mission: Impossible, as did Schifrin, Scharf, and Fried), Nelson Riddle (whose score for the two-part episode "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" was so loathed by Norman Felton that he never hired the composer again, although the music did get tracked into other third-season episodes), and Richard Shores.
The music reflected the show's changing seasons. Goldsmith, Stevens, and Scharf composed dramatic scores in the first season using brass, unusual time signatures and martial rhythms. Gerald Fried and Robert Drasnin opted for a lighter approach in the second, employing harpsichords and bongos. By the third season, the music, like the show, had become more camp, exemplified by an R&B organ and saxophone version of the theme. The fourth season's attempt at seriousness was duly echoed by Richard Shores' somber scores.
Guest stars and other actors
Apart from Solo, Kuryakin, and Waverly, very few characters appeared on the show with any regularity. As a result, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. featured a large number of high-profile guest performers during its three and a half year run.
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy appeared together in a 1964 episode, "The Project Strigas Affair", a full two years before Star Trek aired for the first time. Shatner played a heroic civilian recruited for an U.N.C.L.E. mission, and Nimoy played a rival of the villain's henchman. The villain was portrayed by Werner Klemperer.[11] James Doohan appeared in multiple episodes, each time as a different character.
Barbara Feldon played an U.N.C.L.E. translator eager for field work in "The Never-Never Affair," one year before becoming one of the stars of the very different spy series Get Smart. Robert Culp played the villain in 1964's "The Shark Affair." Leigh Chapman appeared in a recurring role as Napoleon Solo's secretary, Sarah, for several episodes in 1965.[12]
Woodrow Parfrey appeared five times as a guest performer, although he never received an opening-title credit. Usually cast as a scientist, he played the primary villain in only one episode, "The Cherry Blossom Affair." Another five-time guest star was Jill Ireland, who at the time was married to David McCallum. Ricardo Montalbán appeared in two episodes as the primary villain. "The Five Daughters Affair" featured a cameo appearance by Joan Crawford. Janet Leigh and Jack Palance appeared in "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" and Sonny and Cher made an appearance in the third season episode "The Hot Number Affair".[11] Other notable guest stars included: Richard Anderson, Whitney Blake, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Bochner, Judy Carne, Roger C. Carmel, Joan Collins, Walter Coy, Yvonne Craig, Kim Darby, Albert Dekker, Ivan Dixon, Anne Francis, James Hong, Allen Jenkins, Richard Kiel, Marta Kristen, Elsa Lanchester, Angela Lansbury, Julie London, Leslie Nielsen, William Marshall, Eve McVeagh, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Eleanor Parker, Slim Pickens, Vincent Price, Dorothy Provine, Cesar Romero, Charles Ruggles, Kurt Russell, Rip Torn, Guthrie Thomas, Nancy Sinatra, Terry-Thomas, Fritz Weaver, and Elen Willard (in her last acting appearance).[13]
Communications devices
U.N.C.L.E.'s security badge; Napoleon Solo's business card; insignia of the evil T.H.R.U.S.H. organization, CIA Museum
Solo and Kuryakin, trained in martial arts, also had a range of useful spy equipment, including handheld satellite communicators to keep in contact with U.N.C.L.E. headquarters. A catchphrase often heard was "Open Channel D" when agents used their pocket radios; these were originally disguised as cigarette packs, later as cigarette cases, and still later as fountain pens.[14] One of the original pen communicators now resides in the museum of the Central Intelligence Agency.[15] The museum is not accessible to the public. Replicas have been made over the years for other displays, and this is the second-most-identifiable prop from the series (closely following the U.N.C.L.E. Special pistol).[16]
U.N.C.L.E. car
A few of the third-and fourth-season episodes featured an "U.N.C.L.E. car", which was a modified "Piranha Coupe", a plastic-bodied concept car based on the Chevrolet Corvair chassis built in limited numbers by custom car designer Gene Winfield.[17] The U.N.C.L.E. car had been lost after the end of the TV series, but was found in Colorado in the early 1980s and restored to original condition by Robert Short of California.[18]
Main article: The Man from UNCLE Gun
One prop, designed by toy designer Reuben Klamer[19] often referred to as "The Gun", drew so much attention that it actually spurred considerable fan mail, and often so addressed. Internally designated the "U.N.C.L.E. Special", it was a modular semi-automatic weapon. The basic pistol could be converted into a longer-range carbine by attaching a long barrel, extendable shoulder stock, Bushnell telescopic sight, and extended magazine. In this "carbine mode", the pistol could fire on full automatic. This capability brought authorities to the set to investigate reports that the studio was manufacturing machine guns illegally. They threatened to confiscate the prop guns. It took a tour of the prop room to convince them that these were actually "dummy" pistols incapable of firing live ammunition. The actual pistol used as the prop was the Mauser Model 1934 Pocket Pistol, but it was unreliable, jammed constantly, and was dwarfed by the carbine accessories. It was soon replaced by the larger and more reliable Walther P38.
The long magazine was actually a standard magazine with a dummy extension on it, but it inspired several manufacturers to begin making long magazines for various pistols. While many of these continue to be available 40 years later, long magazines were not available for the P-38 for some years.
The P38 fired the standard 9 mm bullet, although sometimes it was loaded with a special dart tipped with a fast-acting tranquilizer when it was preferable to have a live prisoner. The drug lasted, according to Solo, about two hours.
THRUSH had a range of weaponry of their own, much of it only in the development stage before being destroyed by the heroes. A notable item was the infra-red sniperscope, enabling them to aim gunfire in total darkness. A major design defect of the sniperscope was that its image tube's power supply emitted a distinctive whining sound when operating, giving away the shooter's concealed position. It also required a heavy battery and cable arrangement to power the scope. The prop was built from a U.S. Army-surplus M1 carbine with a vertical foregrip and barrel compensator, and using real Army surplus infrared scopes. The infra-red special effect was achieved using a searchlight to illuminate the target. The fully equipped carbines were seen only once, in "The Iowa Scuba Affair". After that, a mock-up of the scope was used to make handling easier.
German small arms were well represented in the series. Not only were P38s frequently seen (both as the U.N.C.L.E. Special and in standard configuration), but also the Luger P-08 pistol. In the pilot episode "The Vulcan Affair", Illya Kuryakin is carrying a standard U.S. Army .45 pistol. The "Broomhandle" Mauser carbines and MP 40 machine pistols were favored by opponents, both THRUSH and non-THRUSH. U.N.C.L.E. also used the MP 40. Beginning in the third season, both U.N.C.L.E and THRUSH used rifles which were either the Spanish CETME or the Heckler & Koch G3, which was based on the CETME.
There were also an assortment of other weapons, ranging from sniper and military rifles to pistols of various caliber, plus swords, knives, bludgeons, staffs, chains, and the like.
Emmy Awards
1965: Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Actors and Performers (Nominated) – David McCallum
1965: Outstanding Program Achievements in Entertainment (Nominated) – Sam Rolfe
1966: Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series (Nominated) – David McCallum
1966: Outstanding Dramatic Series (Nominated) – Norman Felton
1966: Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama (Nominated) – Leo G. Carroll
1966: Individual Achievements in Music – Composition (Nominated) – Jerry Goldsmith
1965: Best TV Star – Male (Nominated) – Robert Vaughn
1966: Best TV Star – Male (Nominated) – David McCallum
1966: Best TV Show (Won)
1967: Best TV Show (Nominated)
1966: Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show (Nominated)- Lalo Schifrin, Morton Stevens, Walter Scharf, Jerry Goldsmith
Logie Awards
1966: Best Overseas Show (Won)[20]
Theatrical releases of episodes
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. rated so highly in America and the UK that MGM and the producers decided to film extra footage (often more adult to evoke Bond films) for two of the first season episodes and release them to theaters after they had aired on TV. The episodes with the extra footage that made it to theaters were the original pilot, "The Vulcan Affair," retitled To Trap a Spy and also from the first season, "The Double Affair" retitled as The Spy with My Face. Both had added sex and violence, new sub-plots and guest stars not in the original TV episodes. They were released in early 1966 as an U.N.C.L.E. double-feature program first run in neighborhood theaters, bypassing the customary downtown movie palaces which were still thriving in the mid-1960s and where new movies usually played for weeks and even months before coming to outlying screens.
A selling point to seeing these films theatrically was that they were being shown in color, at a time when most people had only black and white TVs (and indeed the two first-season episodes that were expanded to feature length, while filmed in color, were only broadcast in black and white). The words IN COLOR featured prominently on the trailers, TV spots, and posters for the film releases. The episodes used to make U.N.C.L.E. films were not included in the packages of television episodes screened outside the United States.[21]
Subsequent two-part episodes, beginning with the second season premiere, "Alexander The Greater Affair," retitled One Spy Too Many for its theatrical release, were developed into one complete feature film with only occasional extra sexy and violent footage added to them, sometimes as just inserts. In the case of One Spy Too Many, a subplot featuring Yvonne Craig as an U.N.C.L.E. operative carrying on a flirtatious relationship with Solo was also added to the film; Craig does not appear in the television episodes.
The later films were not released in America, only overseas, but the first few did well in American theaters and remain one of the rare examples of a television show released in paid theatrical engagements. With the exception of the two-part episode "The Five Daughters Affair," shown as part of Granada Plus's run of the series, the episodes which became movies have never aired on British television.
The films in the series:
To Trap a Spy (1964)
The Spy with My Face (1965)
One Spy Too Many (1966)
One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)
The Spy in the Green Hat (1966)
The Karate Killers (1967)
The Helicopter Spies (1968)
How to Steal the World (1968)
2015 remake
Main article: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (film)
A film adaptation of the television series has been produced by Warner Bros. and Turner Entertainment. Directed by Guy Ritchie, the film stars Armie Hammer, Henry Cavill, and Hugh Grant as Kuryakin, Solo, and Waverly, respectively.[22] Filming began in September 2013,[23] and the movie was released on August 14, 2015. The film received generally positive to mixed reviews.[24]
Soundtrack albums
Although album recordings of the series had been made by Hugo Montenegro (ironically, Montenegro never worked on the series itself but did score an episode of Mission: Impossible), and many orchestras did cover versions of the title theme, it wouldn't be until 2002 that the first of three double-disc albums of original music from the series would be released through Film Score Monthly.
1. First Season Main Title (:45) – Jerry Goldsmith 2. The Vulcan Affair (14:01) – Jerry Goldsmith 3. The Deadly Games Affair (11:48) – Jerry Goldsmith 4. The Double Affair (6:51) – Morton Stevens 5. The Project Strigas Affair (7:14) – Walter Scharf 6. The King of Knaves Affair (12:22) – Jerry Goldsmith 7. The Fiddlesticks Affair (6:30) – Lalo Schifrin 8. Meet Mr. Solo (2:05) – Jerry Goldsmith 9. First Season End Title (:49) – Jerry Goldsmith 10. Second Season End Title (:49) – Jerry Goldsmith, arranged by Lalo Schifrin 11. Alexander the Greater Affair (13:12) – Gerald Fried
1. The Foxes and Hounds Affair (5:16) – Robert Drasnin 2. The Discothèque Affair (8:49) – Gerald Fried 3. The Re-Collectors Affair (6:29) – Robert Drasnin 4. The Arabian Affair (5:29) – Gerald Fried 5. The Tigers Are Coming Affair (4:20) – Robert Drasnin 6. The Cherry Blossom Affair (5:12) – Gerald Fried 7. The Dippy Blonde Affair (7:50) – Robert Drasnin 8. Third Season End Title (:39) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Gerald Fried 9. The Her Master's Voice Affair (4:50) – Gerald Fried 10. The Monks of St. Thomas Affair (7:37) – Gerald Fried 11. The Pop Art Affair (4:50) – Robert Drasnin 12. Fourth Season Main Title (:32) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. unknown 13. The Summit-Five Affair (5:52) – Richard Shores 14. The "J" for Judas Affair (8:03) – Richard Shores
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Volume 2
1. First Season End Title (1:16) – Jerry Goldsmith 2. The Vulcan Affair suite No.2 (9:59) – Jerry Goldsmith 3. The Iowa Scuba Affair (6:54) – Morton Stevens 4. The Shark Affair (7:55) – Walter Scharf 5. The Deadly Games Affair suite No.2 (3:40) – Jerry Goldsmith 6. Meet Mr. Solo (1:45) – Jerry Goldsmith 7. The Giuoco Piano Affair (3:23) – Walter Scharf 8. The King of Knaves Affair suite No.2 (3:40) – Jerry Goldsmith 9. First Season Main Title (revised) (:56) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Morton Stevens 10. The Deadly Decoy Affair (4:32) – Walter Scharf 11. The Spy With My Face (5:12) – Morton Stevens 12. Second Season Main Title (:37) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Lalo Schifrin 13. Alexander the Greater Affair (1:25) – Gerald Fried 14. The Ultimate Computer Affair (5:00) – Lalo Schifrin 15. The Very Important Zombie Affair (4:10) – Gerald Fried 16. The Dippy Blonde Affair (2:01) – Robert Drasnin 17. The Deadly Goddess Affair (2:31) – Gerald Fried 18. The Moonglow Affair (7:09) – Gerald Fried
1. One of Our Spies is Missing (3:08) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Gerald Fried 2. Third Season Main Title (:31) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Gerald Fried 3. The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair (6:39) – Gerald Fried 4. The Galatea Affair (5:36) – Robert Drasnin 5. The Pop Art Affair (4:34) – Robert Drasnin 6. The Come With Me to the Casbah Affair (4:16) – Gerald Fried 7. The Off-Broadway Affair (7:12) – Gerald Fried 8. The Concrete Overcoat Affair (6:48) – Nelson Riddle 9. The Napoleon's Tomb Affair (5:17) – Gerald Fried 10. Fourth Season Main Title (alternate) (:37) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Gerald Fried 11. Fourth Season End Title (:36) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Robert Armbruster? 12. The Test Tube Killer Affair (7:05) – Gerald Fried 13. The Prince of Darkness Affair (11:39) – Richard Shores 14. The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (11:46) – Richard Shores
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Volume 3: Featuring The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.
1. First Season Main Title (revised/extended) (1:00) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Morton Stevens 2. Jerry Goldsmith Medley (2:57) 3. The Quadripartite Affair (3:27) – Walter Scharf 4. The Double Affair, suite no. 2 (6:20) – Morton Stevens 5. Belly Laughs (2:21) – Jerry Goldsmith 6. The Finny Foot Affair (4:51) – Morton Stevens 7. The Fiddlesticks Affair, suite no. 2 (5:17) – Lalo Schifrin 8. The Yellow Scarf Affair (3:35) – Morton Stevens 9. Meet Mr. Solo (3:03) – Jerry Goldsmith 10. The Spy with my Face (4:09) – Morton Stevens 11. The Discothèque Affair, suite no. 2 (4:31) – Gerald Fried 12. The Nowhere Affair (2:48) – Robert Drasnin 13. U.N.C.L.E. A Go Go (3:05) – Gerald Fried 14. The Bat Cave Affair (4:42) – Gerald Fried 15. One of Our Spies is Missing (1:09) – Gerald Fried 16. The Monks of St. Thomas Affair, suite no. 2 (3:46) – Gerald Fried 17. The Spy in the Green Hat (3:19) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Gerald Fried and Robert Armbruster 18. Gerald Fried Medley (7:21) 19. The Karate Killers (1:51) – Gerald Fried 20. Richard Shores Medley (6:37)
1. The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Main Title (:34) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Dave Grusin 2. The Dog-gone Affair (5:28) – Dave Grusin 3. The Prisoner of Zalamar Affair (6:32) – Richard Shores 4. The Mother Muffin Affair (10:59) – Dave Grusin 5. The Mata Hari Affair (7:44) – Dave Grusin 6. The Montori Device Affair (5:31) – Richard Shores 7. The Horns-of-the-Dilemma Affair (2:05) – Jack Marshall 8. The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. End Title (:39) – Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Dave Grusin 9. The Deadly Quest Affair: Teaser (3:57) - Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Robert Armbruster 10. The Deadly Quest Affair: Act I (7:48) - Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Robert Armbruster 11. The Deadly Quest Affair: Act II (9:07) - Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Robert Armbruster 12. The Deadly Quest Affair: Act III (7:24) - Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Robert Armbruster 13. The Deadly Quest Affair: Act IV (8:06) - Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Robert Armbruster
The Spy With My Face: Music From The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Movies
FSM also released a disc of music specifically written for the feature film versions culled from episodes of the series (One Of Our Spies Is Missing and The Karate Killers are particularly strongly represented, due to the original TV episodes – "The Bridge Of Lions Affair" and "The Five Daughters Affair" respectively – having been tracked with music written for other episodes).
To Trap A Spy (Jerry Goldsmith): 1. Main Title/Solo Strikes Again (Main Title) (1:19) 2. The Kiss Off/Main Title (Meet Mr. Solo/End Title) (1:54) The Spy With My Face (Morton Stevens): 3. Main Title (4:09) 4. Phase Two/Sub Male/Bugged Bobo (3:09) 5. New Alps/Impostor's First Test/Cyanide Cigarette (2:52) 6. Incarcerated Swinging (5:01) 7. The Real McCoy/End Title (2:17) One Spy Too Many (Gerald Fried): 8. Dog Fight on Wheels (Main Title) – Goldsmith, arr. Fried (2:56) 9. Briefcase/Follow That Spy (:55) 10. The Three Alexanders/The Great Design (2:45) 11. Farm/Skip Loader/Wrong Driver (2:28) 12. End Title – Goldsmith, arr. Schifrin (:31) One Of Our Spies Is Missing (Gerald Fried): 13. Main Title – Goldsmith, arr. Fried (3:08) 14. Go-Go in Soho/Cat Jam (1:46) 15. Duel by Flashlight/Fat Vat/Bridge of Lions (3:36) 16. Love With the Proper Mannequin/Thrush Cycle (1:29) 17. Thrush Guards/The Sacrifice/Jordin's Demise (2:31) 18. Hot Tie (1:58) 19. End Title – Goldsmith, arr. Fried (:37) The Spy In The Green Hat (Nelson Riddle): 20. Main Title – Goldsmith, arr. Fried/Robert Armbruster (2:09) 21. Sicilian Style/Sacre! (1:22) 22. Stilletto Tango/Wrong Uncle (1:52) 23. Von Kronen/Kit Kat Klub (1:29) 24. Mr. Impeccable/I Sure Do/Right! (1:38) 25. End Title – Goldsmith, arr. Fried/Armbruster (:32) The Karate Killers (Gerald Fried): 26. Main Title – Goldsmith, arr. Fried/Search Party (2:46) 27. Coliseum a Go Go/Arrivederci/Drain Pipe (3:08) 28. Along the Seine/Anyone for Venice (2:45) 29. Snow Goons/Touchdown (02:30) 30. Sidewalks of Japan (1:40) 31. Karate & Stick Game (1:24) 32. Mod Wedding/End Cast (1:03) The Helicopter Spies (Jerry Goldsmith, arr. Armbruster): 33. Main Title (2:01) 34. End Title (:25) How To Steal The World (Richard Shores): 35. Crazy Airport (Main Title) (2:08) 36. Trouble in Hong Kong (End Title) (:37)
Several comic books based on the series were published. In the US, there was a Gold Key Comics comic book series (one based on the show), which ran for twenty-two issues. Entertainment Publishing released an eleven issue series of one- and two-part stories from January 1987 to September 1988 that updated U.N.C.L.E. to the Eighties, while largely ignoring the reunion TV-movie. A two-part comics story, "The Birds of Prey Affair," was put out by Millennium Publications in 1993, which showcased the return of a smaller, much more streamlined version of THRUSH, controlled by Dr. Egret, who had melded with the Ultimate Computer. The script was written by Mark Ellis and Terry Collins, with artwork by Nick Choles, and transplanted the characters into the present day.
Two Man from U.N.C.L.E. strips were originated for the British market in the 1960s (some Gold Key material was also reprinted), the most notable for Lady Penelope comic, which launched in January 1966. This was replaced by a Girl from U.N.C.L.E. strip in January 1967. Man from U.N.C.L.E. also featured in the short-lived title Solo (published between February and September 1967) and some text stories appeared in TV Tornado. In 2015-2016, DC comics Kids launched Batman '66 Meets the Man from U.N.C.L.E., a crossover with its Batman '66 series.
Licensed merchandise included a Man from U.N.C.L.E. digest sized story magazine, board games, Gilbert action figures, Aurora plastic model kits, lunch boxes, and toy weapons.[25]
An example of this, the Louis Marx "Target Gun Set", a dart gun shooting game released in the form of a quasi-playset, is built around the setting of U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City. Art on the cardboard stand displays both the U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH logos, and a half-dozen soft plastic figures per "side" were provided, including Solo, Kuryakin and Waverly. These were marked on the base with the character names and the MGM copyright statement "MGM MCMLXVI" (figures not based on specific characters sport only the Marx copyright and date). The game measures 57" long by 18" tall; the figures, at 6", represent one of the few attempts Marx made at supplementing its 6" figure line. The U.N.C.L.E. figures are cast in blue, but for a single (unnamed) figure in tan; THRUSH agents are cast in gray. Marx was also responsible for an arcade game, licensed under The Man from U.N.C.L.E.[26]
The first Man from U.N.C.L.E. novel, by Michael Avallone. Pictured: Robert Vaughn.
Rare children's storybook based upon The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Left to right: David McCallum, Robert Vaughn and Leo G. Carroll.
Two dozen novels were based upon Man from U.N.C.L.E. and published between 1965 and 1968. Unhampered by television censors, the novels were generally grittier and more violent than the televised episodes. The series sold in the millions, and was the largest TV-novel tie-in franchise until surpassed by Dark Shadows and Star Trek.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (a.k.a. The Thousand Coffins Affair) by Michael Avallone. When villages in Africa and Scotland are wiped out by a plague of madness, Solo and Kuryakin dig up a graveyard and a monster named Golgotha.
The Doomsday Affair by Harry Whittington. The agents must find the mystery man "Tixe Ylno" before he triggers war between the USA and the USSR.
The Copenhagen Affair by John Oram. "UFOs" are buzzing Europe, and the U.N.C.L.E. agents crisscross Denmark to find the factory before THRUSH launches an armed fleet.
The Dagger Affair by David McDaniel. DAGGER fanatics have an energy damper that can shut down electrical fields, atomic reactions, and human beings, and even T.H.R.U.S.H. is panicked. This novel is when McDaniel introduced the acronym T.H.R.U.S.H.
The Mad Scientist Affair by John T. Phillifent. The agents stop biochemist "King Mike" from poisoning London, then discover his second plan is to contaminate the entire North Sea.
The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel. Napoleon and Illya don't believe in vampires and werewolves, but an U.N.C.L.E. agent has died, so they must investigate an ancient castle in Transylvanian Romania.
The Radioactive Camel Affair by Peter Leslie. Solo joins a caravan and Kuryakin threads a war zone to reach a missile base deep in the Sudan hinterlands.
The Monster Wheel Affair by David McDaniel. The agents canvass the globe and infiltrate a remote island to confirm an inexplicable space station belongs to - Egypt?
The Diving Dames Affair by Peter Leslie. The deaths of two merry missionaries lead the agents to the plains of Brazil and a giant dam with no apparent purpose.
The Assassination Affair by J. Hunter Holly. Surviving assassins' bullets and a "do-it-yourself murder room", the agents follow T.H.R.U.S.H. to desolated Michigan farms and a scheme to starve the world.
The Invisibility Affair by Thomas Stratton (Buck Coulson and Gene DeWeese). The agents track an invisible dirigible to a submarine in Lake Michigan - and a plot to hijack an entire country.
The Mind Twisters Affair by Thomas Stratton. People in a college town are unaccountably catatonic, euphoric, and raging. The agents must ferret out who and how before the "experiment" goes nationwide.
The Rainbow Affair by David McDaniel. The agents consult every classic fictional spy and detective in England to find the world's best bank robber before T.H.R.U.S.H. can recruit - or kill - him.
The Cross of Gold Affair by Fredric Davies (Ron Ellik and Fredric Langley). Clues hidden in crossword puzzles lead the agents, hippies, and frogmen to a Coney Island death-trap to stop the biggest heist in history.
The Utopia Affair by David McDaniel. Solo must command U.N.C.L.E. North America while Waverly is on a forced six-week vacation, and an undercover Illya tries to protect Waverly from T.H.R.U.S.H. assassins.
The Splintered Sunglasses Affair by Peter Leslie
The Hollow Crown Affair by David McDaniel. In the last published David McDaniel's novel, T.H.R.U.S.H. Agent Ward and Irene Baldwin from The Dagger Affair return in a battle against an U.N.C.L.E. lab chief who has defected to T.H.R.U.S.H.
The Unfair Fare Affair by Peter Leslie
The Power Cube Affair by John T. Phillifent
The Corfu Affair by John T. Phillifent
The Thinking Machine Affair by Joel Bernard
The Stone Cold Dead in the Market Affair by John Oram
The Finger in the Sky Affair by Peter Leslie
The Final Affair by David McDaniel. Completed but never published, the manuscript is circulated by fans.
Volumes 10–15 and 17 of the series were only published in the United States.
The Rainbow Affair is notable for unnamed cameos by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Willie Garvin, Tommy Hambledon, Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.
Whitman Books published three hardcover novels aimed at young readers: The Affair of the Gunrunners' Gold and The Affair of the Gentle Saboteur by Brandon Keith, and The Calcutta Affair by George S. Elrick. The first two are notable for breaking the ".... Affair" naming convention used by the franchise on most other TV episodes and book releases.
A children's storybook was written by Walter B. Gibson entitled The Coin of El Diablo Affair.
The digest-sized Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine featured original novellas continuing the adventures of Solo and Kuryakin. Published under the house name "Robert Hart Davis," they were written by such authors as John Jakes, Dennis Lynds, and Bill Pronzini. 24 issues, which also offered original crime and spy fiction short stories and novelettes, and occasional reprints under the title "Department of Lost Stories," ran monthly from February 1966 till January 1968.
Three science-fiction novels appear to be rewrites of "orphaned" U.N.C.L.E novel outlines or manuscripts: Genius Unlimited by John Rackham (a pseudonym of Phillifent), The Arsenal Out of Time by McDaniel, and Agent Of T.E.R.R.A. #1: The Flying Saucer Gambit by Jack Jardine (writing as Larry Maddock).
TV Annuals
There have been four TV Annuals published in UK between 1967-1970 by World Distributors which features written stories and reprint of a Gold Key story which were never published in the UK.
In November 2007, after coming to an agreement with Warner Home Video, Time-Life released a 41 DVD set (region 1) for direct order, with sales through stores scheduled for fall 2008.[27] An earlier release by Anchor Bay, allegedly set for 2006, was apparently scuttled because of a dispute over the rights to the series with Warner Home Video.[28][29]
On October 21, 2008, the Time-Life set was released to retail outlets in Region 1 (North America) in a special all-seasons box set contained within a small briefcase. The complete-series set consists of 41 DVDs, including two discs of special features included exclusively with the box set. Included in the set was the Solo pilot episode, as well as one of the films, One Spy Too Many. Paramount Pictures and CBS Home Entertainment released Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to DVD in Region 1 on March 3, 2009.[30][31]
On August 23, 2011, Warner Archive Collection released The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 8-Movie Collection on DVD via their "manufacture on demand" service.[32] On November 4, 2014, Warner Home Video released the complete series set on DVD in Region 1 in a new repackaged version.[33] On August 4, 2015, Warner Home Video released an individual release of season 1 on DVD in Region 1.[34] Season 2 was released on February 2, 2016.[35]
In Region 2, Warner Bros. released the complete series set on DVD in the UK[36] They also released a separate movie collection on September 8, 2003.[37] The DVD contains five of the eight movies, missing the following: To Trap a Spy (1964), The Spy in the Green Hat (1966) and One of Our Spies is Missing (1966).
On March 26, 2012, Fabulous Films released Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on Region 2 DVD.[38]
U.N.C.L.E. in popular culture
References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled "The Man from My Uncle." References in other television shows have continued over the years, including a 2010 episode of Mad Men called "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword." It has also been referenced in other television shows including Get Smart, Angry Beavers, and Laugh-In. An episode of Tom & Jerry from the Chuck Jones era titled "The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R." paid homage to the show, with Jerry as a secret agent tasked with the mission of retrieving a sizeable stash of cheese from the villainous Tom Thrush (portrayed by Tom).
The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. was a Man From U.N.C.L.E. parody in 1960s Archie Comics. The comic portrayed Archie and the gang as a group of high-tech spies, as part of world-defence organization P.O.P. (an acronym for Protect our Planet). Their chief enemy was a counter-group known as C.R.U.S.H. (a spoof on T.H.R.U.S.H., but whose acronym was never explained). Although Reggie, Veronica and Moose were initially cast as C.R.U.S.H. agents, they later became members of P.O.P. All the characters also had undefined acronyms for names (A.R.C.H.I.E., B.E.T.T.Y., etc.).
The TV show My Favorite Martian (1963–1966) also used CRUSH as the name of the evil spy organization, spoofing T.H.R.U.S.H. in two episodes. In the season two episode "006 3/4" Tim finds a distress note from Agent 006 of Top Secret, who is being tracked by CRUSH. Top Secret asks Tim to assist Agent 004, to save 006. In the season three episode "Butterball" Uncle Martin must rescue Tim who is kidnapped by Butterball.
A 1966 episode of The Avengers was titled "The Girl from AUNTIE."
In a 1966 episode of the sitcom Please Don't Eat the Daisies titled "Say UNCLE", the young twins are fans of The Man From U.N.C.L.E, and become convinced that their father Jim is a secret agent. In one scene, they watch Jim emerge from a tailor shop similar to Del Florio's. Another man entering the shop asks Jim for a match, and Jim gives him his matchbook. The boys are astonished, because the other man is David McCallum, identified in the ending credits as Illya Kuryakin; they believe their father has just passed a secret message to the "real-life" Illya Kuryakin. The scene ends with the U.N.C.L.E scene transition: the action freezes and goes out of focus.[39]
It was also referenced in Glad commercials in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which starred the "Man from GLAD," a trenchcoat-wearing agent who flew around in his combination boat/helicopter demonstrating Glad products to suburban housewives and saving the day.
In 1970, a "secret agent" theme was used by Australian confectionery manufacturer Allen's to market their Anticol cough lozenges, with TV commercials running under the title "The Man From A.N.T.I.C.O.L.," featuring agent "Napoleon Brandy" combatting illnesses being spread by the agents of S.L.A.S.H.[40][41]
Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee stated in the introduction notes to "Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D.," in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics, that both the Marvel Universe spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Marvel Universe terror society HYDRA were inspired by the Man From U.N.C.L.E. television program.
Musical examples include Elvis Costello's 1980 album Get Happy!! and an Argentinian Funk duo who took the name Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas honoring the fictitious spy. Alma Cogan paid a similar tribute to the Russian agent in her single "Love Ya Illya," released in 1966 under the pseudonym "Angela and the Fans." In the 1980s, The Cleaners from Venus penned "Ilya Kuryakin Looked at Me;" the song was later covered by The Jennifers. The English 2 Tone band The Specials made an instrumental song called "Napoleon Solo." It was also the name of a Danish 2 Tone band. Space–surf band Man or Astro-man? covered the theme song for their 1994 EP Astro Launch. The British trip-hop group U.N.K.L.E. derive their name from the show.
In a late 1986 episode of The A-Team, Robert Vaughn--who had been added to the show's cast as mysterious retired agent Hunt Stockwell for the show's final season, as part of a revamp effort to revive flagging ratings--was reunited with guest star David McCallum, in an episode entitled "The 'Say U.N.C.L.E.' Affair." This story paid homage to The Man from U.N.C.L.E., complete with "chapter titles," the word "affair" in the title, the phrase "Open Channel D," similar scene transitions, and much mention of Vaughn's and McCallum's respective characters having once worked closely together as agents.[42] But in this story, McCallum's agent had turned villainous, selling out to the enemy and now capturing Vaughn to try to find out the whereabouts of a Soviet jet fighter.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), the Promenade directory lists "Del Floria's Tailor Shop" as a location.
Beginning in 2003, McCallum starred in the CBS television series NCIS as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, M.D., the Medical Examiner and one of the key characters. During the episode "The Meat Puzzle" (Season 2, Episode 13), as an inside joke, NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is asked, "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" Gibbs responds, "Illya Kuryakin." The photo supposedly of a younger Ducky is actually a promotional photo from McCallum's Man from U.N.C.L.E. days.[43]
The protagonist in the video games The Operative: No One Lives Forever (2000) and No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way (2002) works for an organization known as U.N.I.T.Y. The villains in both games work for an organization known as H.A.R.M.
The video game Team Fortress 2 (2007) has an achievement referencing the show, named "The Man From P.U.N.C.T.U.R.E."[44]
On the fifth episode of the fourth season of Mad Men (2010), "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", as Sally Draper is watching an episode of the show at a sleepover, she is caught by her friend's mother absent-mindedly masturbating while staring at the television.
Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie was a British television comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton. The title of the series was a play on words of both the American spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and "Auntie," an informal name for the BBC.
A scene from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is shown in the HBO movie Temple Grandin, the biographical movie about the high-functioning autistic woman who overcame many of her symptoms to acquire a Ph.D. in Animal Sciences, and in an early scene from the film, Claire Danes, who impersonated Grandin in the film, repeated a line from the episode "The Gazebo in the Maze Affair:" "Would you like for me to open that gate?"
"Lyra and Bon Bon and the Mares From S.M.I.L.E." is an upcoming title in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic chapter books published by Little, Brown, and Company, to be released in March 2016.
Illya Kuryakin
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The Liberal Democrat Manifesto 2019 – Stop Brexit: Build A Brighter Future
November 20, 2019 Charles Cummins
Posted by Charles Cummins on November 20, 2019 November 20, 2019
The Lib Dem's have published their General Election manifesto entitled 'Stop Brexit: Build a Brighter Future' and a 'manifesto costings summary' setting out their spending plans and where they predict the additional Government income required to pay for their proposals will come from, which includes a £50m 'Remain Bonus' dependent on the UK not leaving the EU.
Their manifesto includes pledges to invest £130bn in infrastructure, a £10,000 per person 'Skills Wallet', a reversal of cuts to school funding, a renewables target of 80% of UK electricity by 2030, investment in public transport and rail electrification, an additional £7bn a year for the NHS and social care through a 1p increase in income tax, £6bn for the benefits system, building an additional 100,000 social homes a year, a £50bn Regional Rebalancing Programme, a transformation of the immigration system, changes to the voting system and votes for 16 year olds, a commitment to NATO defence spending and an end to arms exports to Saudi Arabia.
A full summary can be found below:
Stop Brexit
Revoke Article 50 if elected with a majority government, otherwise fight for a second referendum and campaign to keep the UK in the EU.
Protect and maintain freedom of movement, and extend the right to vote in all elections to EU citizens who have lived in the UK for five years or longer.
Introduce a legal requirement for council to inform citizens of what they need to do to be registered to vote, and make the changes needed to ensure the UK has an automatic system of inclusion in elections.
Use the £50bn 'Remain Bonus' to invest in public services and tackle inequality.
Our Plan for a Stronger Economy
Priorities in the next Parliament:
Invest £130 billion in infrastructure – upgrading transport and energy systems, building schools, hospitals and homes, empowering all regions and nations of the UK and developing the climate-friendly infrastructure of the future.
Enable an adaptable, future-focused workforce – empowering individuals through new Skills Wallets worth £10,000 for every individual.
Introduce a wellbeing budget and basing decisions for government spending on what will improve wellbeing as well as on economic and fiscal indicators.
Increase spending on R&D to 3% of GDP, with an interim target of 2.4% by 2027, double innovation spending in the economy, creating more 'Catapult' innovation centres.
Introduce a new two-year visa for students to work after graduation, and expand high-quality apprenticeships supported by new sector-led National Colleges.
Reform building standards to ensure all homes built from 2022 have full connectivity to ultra-fast broadband and are designed to enable the use of smart technologies.
Reform the British Business Bank's support for venture capital funds by allowing it to help funds 'crowd in' new backers, and expand it to allow it to play a more central role in the economy.
Develop a mechanism to allow the public to share in profits made by technology companies in the use of their data.
Create a 'start-up allowance' to support new businesses and provide mentoring advice to those looking to scale-up. Prioritise SMEs in the rollout of hyper-fast broadband.
Oblige all government contractors with over 250 employers to sign up to the prompt payment code.
Require companies with over 250 employers to have employee representation on their boards.
Introduce a general duty of care for the environment and human rights, and reform fiduciary duty to ensure all large companies have a formal statement of corporate purpose.
Require binding and public votes of shareholders on executive pay policies.
Increase corporation tax to 20% and tax capital gains and salaries through a single allowance.
Replace Business Rates with a Commercial Landowner Levy.
Introduce a General Anti-Avoidance Rule setting a target for HMRC to reduce the tax gap, and improve the Digital Sales Tax to make tech giants pay their 'fair share'.
End retrospective tax changes like the loan charge and scrap the Marriage Tax Allowance.
Establish a Worker Protection Enforcement Agency to protect people in precarious work.
Make flexible working open to all from day one unless business reasons mean it is not possible.
Set a 20% higher minimum wage for people on zero-hour contracts and give a right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months of working on a zero-hour contract.
Strengthen the ability of union to represent workers in the modern economy.
Expand the apprenticeship levy into a Skills and Training Levy with 25% of funds raised going into a Social Mobility Fund targeted at areas with the greatest need.
Protect the independence of the Bank of England and maintain the inflation target of 2%.
Introduce a wellbeing budget, appoint a Minister for Wellbeing and base decisions on what would improve wellbeing as well as on economic and fiscal indicators.
Our Plan for Better Education and Skills
Provide free, high-quality childcare for children of working parents from nine months.
Reverse cuts to school funding, employing an extra 20,000 schoolteachers, and clearing the backlog of repairs to school and college buildings.
End "teaching to the test" by scrapping mandatory SATs, and replacing existing government performance tables ('league tables') of schools with a broader set of indicators.
Invest £1bn a year in Children's Centres to tackle inequalities in children's health, development and life chances, and triple the Early Years Pupil Premium to £1,000.
Allocate additional cash to local authorities to halve the amount that schools pay towards the cost of a child's Education Health and Care Plan.
Introduce a 'curriculum for life' including PSHE, financial literacy, environmental awareness, first aid, mental health education and RSE.
Replace Ofsted with an HM Inspector of Schools, with inspections taking place every three years.
Give local authorities responsibility for places planning, exclusions, entries and SEND functions.
Oppose any future expansion of grammar schools.
Raise teachers' starting salaries to £30,000 with a 3% increase each year.
Extend free school meals to all primary school children, and to secondary school children whose families receive Universal Credit.
Invest £1bn in Further Education, such as through refunding colleges the VAT they pay.
Introduce a Young People's Premium to help children from poorer families remain in education and training.
Reinstate maintenance grants for the poorest students and establish a review of higher education finance.
Maintain free access to national museums and galleries, and protect sports and arts funding via the National Lottery.
Set up a BBC License Fee Commission, protect the independence of the BBC and maintain Channel 4 in public ownership.
Our Plan for a Green Society and a Green Economy
An emergency programme to insulate all Britain's homes by 2030, cutting emissions and fuel bills and ending fuel poverty.
Invest in renewable power so that at least 80 per cent of UK electricity is generated from renewables by 2030 – and banning fracking for good.
Protect nature and the countryside, tackling biodiversity loss and planting 60 million trees a year to absorb carbon, protect wildlife and improve health.
Invest in public transport, electrifying Britain's railways and ensuring that all new cars are electric by 2030.
Require all companies registered in the UK to set targets consistent with the Paris Agreement and regulate financial services to encourage green investments.
Establish a Department for Climate Change and Natural Resources and appoint a cabinet-level Chief Secretary for Sustainability in the Treasury.
Support investment and innovation in zero-carbon and resource-efficient infrastructure and technologies by creating a new Green Investment Bank.
Implement the UK's G7 pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.
Remove restrictions on solar and wind power, invest in cutting-edge energy technologies, including tidal and wave power, energy storage, demand response, smart grids and hydrogen, and support CCS technology.
End fuel poverty by 2025.
Provide free retrofitting for low-income homes and reduce VAT on home insulation.
Graduate Stamp Duty Land Tax by the energy rating of the property.
Require all new homes and non-domestic buildings to be built to a zero-carbon standard by 2021.
Increase minimum energy efficiency standards for privately rented properties
Adopt a Zero-Carbon Heat Strategy, encompassing the phased installation of heat pumps in homes and businesses off the gas grid.
End support from UK Export Finance for fossil fuel-related activities.
Ban non-recyclable single-use plastics and replace them with affordable alternatives.
Extend the deposit return schemes for all food and drink bottles and containers, working with the devolved administrations to ensure consistency across the UK.
Invest in large scale restoration of peatlands, heathland, native woodlands, saltmarshes, wetlands and coastal waters, helping to absorb carbon and protect against floods.
Introduce a National Food Strategy to promote the production and consumption of healthy, sustainable and affordable food.
Accelerate the transition to ultra-low-emission transport through taxation, subsidy and regulation.
Accelerate the rapid take-up of electric vehicles by reforming vehicle taxation, cutting VAT on EVs to 5 per cent and increasing the rate of installation of charging points.
End the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030.
Shift more freight from road to rail, including electrifying lines leading from major ports as an urgent priority, and amend the current HGV road user levy to take account of carbon emissions.
Pass a Clean Air Act, based on World Health Organisation guidelines.
Oppose any expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted and any new airport in the Thames Estuary, introduce zero-carbon fuels blending requirement for domestic flights, and introduce a Frequent Flyer Levy.
Give local authorities the ability to introduce network-wide ticketing.
Introduce a nationwide strategy to promote walking and cycling, increasing spending to 10 per cent of the transport budget.
Convert the rail network to ultra-low-emission technology (electric or hydrogen) by 2035.
Support High Speed 2, Northern Powerhouse Rail, East-West Rail and Crossrail 2, but ensure far tighter financial controls.
Our Plan for Health and Social Care
Raise £7 billion a year in additional revenue by putting 1p on Income Tax, with this money to be ringfenced for spending on the NHS and social care.
Transform mental health by treating it with the same urgency as physical health.
Reform the Health and Social Care Act as recommended by the NHS, to make the NHS work in a more efficient and joined-up way, and to end the automatic tendering of services.
Establish a cross-party health and social care convention to reach agreement on the long-term sustainable funding of a joined-up system of health and social care.
Introduce a statutory independent budget monitoring body for health and care, similar to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
Develop a scheme to reward employers who invest in the mental wellbeing of their employees, piloting reduced business rates for employers who support employees' mental wellbeing and provide mental health first aid training.
End the GP shortfall by 2025.
Move towards single place-based budgets for health and social care to encourage greater collaboration between the local NHS and Local Authorities in commissioning.
Develop a strategy to tackle childhood obesity including restricting the marketing of junk food to children.
Close loopholes in the Soft Drinks Industry Levy and extend it to include juice- and milk-based drinks that are high in added sugar.
Require labelling of food products, in a readable font size, and publication of information on calorie, fat, sugar and salt content in restaurants and takeaways.
Reduce smoking rates by introducing a new levy on tobacco companies to contribute to the costs of health care and smoking cessation services.
Legislate for the right to unpolluted air.
Introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol and provide universal access to addiction treatment.
Help to break the grip of the criminal gangs by introducing a legal, regulated market for cannabis.
Our Plan to Build a Fair Society
Invest £6 billion per year to make the benefits system work for people who need it and reducing the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days.
Introduce a principle of universal access to basic services: starting by building 100,000 social homes a year, ending rough sleeping and bringing in a new legal right to food.
Create a £50 billion Regional Rebalancing Programme to address the historic investment disparities between our nations and regions.
Adopt a public health approach to serious violence by investing £1 billion to restore community policing and ringfencing £500m for youth services fund to local authorities.
Reinstate the Independent Living Fund.
Increase Local Housing Allowance in line with average rents in an area.
Reform Universal Credit to be more supportive of the self-employed.
Retain the Triple Lock on the basic state pension, so that it rises in line with the highest of wages, prices or 2.5 per cent.
Build at least 100,000 homes for social rent each year and ensure that total housebuilding increases to 300,000 each year.
Devolve full control of Right to Buy to local councils.
Scrap the Vagrancy Act, so that rough sleeping is no longer criminalised.
Tackle modern slavery and human trafficking through proactive, intelligence-led enforcement of labour market standards.
Replace Police and Crime Commissioners with accountable Police Boards made up of local councillors.
Our Plan for Freedom, Rights and Equality
Stand up for human rights by championing the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Fix the broken immigration system by scrapping the Conservatives' hostile environment, ending indefinite detention and taking powers away from the Home Office.
Give asylum seekers the right to work three months after they have applied and resettle 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children in the UK over the next ten years.
Invest £500m to restore Legal Aid.
Introduce a Lovelace Code of Ethics to govern the use of personal data and artificial intelligence.
Immediately halt the use of facial recognition surveillance by the police.
Introduce a right to no-fault divorce and extend limited legal rights to cohabiting couples.
Make all hate crimes aggravated offences, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Reform the Gender Recognition Act and introduce an 'X' gender option on passports.
Increase accessibility to transport by making more stations wheelchair accessible and introduce a British Sign Language Act.
Remove VAT on sanitary products and provide them for free in a multitude of public buildings.
Replace Tier 2 work visas with a more flexible merit-based system, introduce a 'Training up Britain' programme to make the most of migrants' skills, create a new two-year visa for students to work after graduation, and reduce the fee for registering a child as a British citizen from £1,012 to the cost of administration.
Move asylum policymaking from the Home Office to the Department for International Development, provide free basic English lessons to refugees and asylum seekers and increase the 'move-on period' for refugees from 28 days to 60 days.
Our Plan for Better Politics
Give people a voice with a fair voting system so that everyone's vote counts equally, letting people vote at the first election or referendum after they turn 16 and giving votes to all British citizens abroad and to EU citizens who have made the UK their long-term home.
Embark on a radical redistribution of power away from Westminster to the nations, regions and local authorities, giving power to communities to hold local services to account and decide how their taxes are raised and spent.
Introduce a written constitution for a federal United Kingdom.
Introduce proportional representation through the Single Transferable Vote for electing MPs and local councillors in England, enable all UK citizens living abroad to vote for MPs in separate overseas constituencies and scrap plans for voter ID.
Reform the House of Lords with a democratic mandate and enable Parliament, rather than the Queen-in-Council, to approve when parliament is prorogued and for how long.
Devolve further revenue-raising powers away from Westminster, to regions from Cornwall to North East England, and key levers of economic development including transport, energy, housing and skills.
Mandate the provision of televised leaders' debates in general elections.
Strengthen and expand the lobbying register and ban MPs from accepting paid lobbying work.
Increase transparency over political advertising, donations, spending and algorithms used in digital advertising.
Specifically include health and education departments of the Scottish and Welsh governments in UK policymaking on drug policy and student visas.
Create a Joint Climate Council of the Nations to coordinate action to tackle the climate emergency.
Oppose a second independence referendum in Scotland.
Allocate to the Scottish Parliament all of the powers set out in the Scotland Act 2016.
Devolve Air Passenger Duty and powers over policing and prisons to the Welsh Assembly.
Our Plan for a Better World
Defend international cooperation against the rising tides of nationalism and isolationism, supporting multilateral organisations like the UN and NATO which are increasingly under threat.
Spend 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on aid: reducing poverty, defending human rights, protecting the environment and preventing violent conflict worldwide.
Cooperate with the UK's European and global partners in tackling the climate and environmental emergencies.
Control arms exports to countries with poor human rights records and, as part of this, suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Introduce a European Magnitsky Act that would enable sanctions against corrupt individuals and perpetrators of human rights abuses.
Improve control of arms exports, including by introducing a policy of 'presumption of denial' for arms exports to countries listed as Human Rights Priority Countries in the FCO's annual human rights report.
Legislate to ensure there is a parliamentary vote before engaging in military action.
Commit to the principle of collective self-defence as laid out in the North Atlantic Treaty and spend two per cent of GDP on defence in line with NATO recommendations.
Strengthen the UK's armed services and address critical skills shortages by recruiting STEM graduates to be armed forces engineers, providing 'golden handshakes' of up to £10,000.
Promote an international treaty on the principles and limits of the use of technology in modern warfare.
Recognise the expansion of warfare into the cybersphere by investing in the UK's security and intelligence services and acting to counter cyberattacks.
Maintain a minimum nuclear deterrent, while pursuing multilateral nuclear disarmament: continue with the Dreadnought programme but procure three boats and moving to a medium-readiness responsive posture and maintain the deterrent.
Increase the proportion of the aid budget committed to tackling climate change and environmental degradation.
Work through international bodies for better regulation and scrutiny of international trade and investment treaties to ensure they do not worsen inequalities or undermine human rights.
Develop proposals with the BBC for investment to grow the World Service to reach more people across the world and continue to support BBC Monitoring and the British Council.
Initiate negotiations within the UN for a legally binding international treaty on plastics reduction.
Argue for an end to all fossil fuel subsidies world-wide and provide aid to developing countries to help them transition to clean sources of energy.
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