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The lost art of the Christmas single
The great Christmas singles came from the broken remains of a country that had forgotten how to be itself
Is the malaise at Eton symptomatic of something wider?
Is the whole institution of the public school starting to become unfit for purpose in the 21st century?
Sandy Devereux
Smallscreen scriptwriter
Fishermen’s tails
Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold
Carving out a new genre
Digital theatre is now beginning to offer stalls-starved audiences the kind of quality work they would have queued to see live
Pop over to Tier 3, take a shufti, don’t come back
It will raise the whole tone of the pandemic
Government to table Brexit Bill next week
Legislation designed to neuter the Withdrawal Agreement was welcomed by Brexiteers
Fisherpeople
Tears over Jordan Peterson’s book, The Sun goes woke and the BBC’s “fisherpeople”
No Finance Bill bad news for Brexiteers
Without a Finance Bill, the UK has ever decreasing options to avoid implementing the EU Withdrawal Agreement
Over the top with Boris
The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one