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In February 2020, a few weeks before Britain was thrown into lockdown, Sajid Javid resigned as chancellor of the exchequer over a bust-up with the prime minister’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings. The fight was thought to be over Cummings’s attempts to dictate who could and could not work in No. 11. In fact, it was
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A bland, reverential portrait of a socialist martyr: Nye at the Olivier Theatre reviewed
From the magazineThe memory of Nye Bevan is being honoured at the National Theatre. Having made his name as a Marxist firebrand, Nye was quick to take advantage of the privileges enjoyed by the governing classes whom he affected to despise. He entered parliament in 1929 and began to hang around the Commons bar plying female MPs
A latter-day exercise in Dada: Nature Theater of Oklahoma reviewed
From the magazineA cross between Peter Rabbit and Queen Victoria: Bliss: The Composer Conducts reviewed
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The Alfred Hitchcock of British painting
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A theatrical one-woman show: Billy Eilish at the OVO Hydro, Glasgow reviewed
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Definitely the film of the week: Four Letters of Love reviewed
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