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Racists will love it: National Theatre’s Death of England – Delroy reviewed

Plus: James Baldwin and William F. Buckley's riveting 1965 Cambridge Union debate reconstructed

The charismatic Michael Balogun in the Olivier Theatre's politically illiterate and artistically harmful new play, Death of England: Delroy. Image: Normski Photography

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