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Butlin’s is cashing in on nostalgia
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From Spectator LifeAstute Scottish trainer Jim Goldie cannot hide his admiration for his five-year-old sprinter AMERICAN AFFAIR, who runs at Haydock tomorrow in the Group 2 Betfred Temple Stakes (3.30 p.m.). Goldie knows a thing or two about decent speedsters having trained the likes of Jack Dexter and Hawkeyethenoo in recent years – the former, in fact,
Britain has lost the plot over Peppa Pig
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Starmer vs the workers
The real Brexit betrayal
Starmer vs the workers: the real Brexit betrayal
Keir Starmer looked blank. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seemed confused. Only the old Stalinist Seumas Milne seemed really to understand. It was 2019. Labour’s front bench team, and their leader Jeremy Corbyn’s close advisers, were being upbraided – from the left. Why were they putting the interests of international capital ahead of our workers?
Starmer vs the workers: the real Brexit betrayal
Keir Starmer looked blank. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seemed confused. Only the old Stalinist Seumas Milne seemed really to understand. It was 2019. Labour’s front bench team, and their leader Jeremy Corbyn’s close advisers, were being upbraided – from the left. Why were they putting the interests of international capital ahead of our workers?
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We’ve underestimated Francis Rossi
From the magazineI have a friend who insists that had Status Quo hailed from Düsseldorf rather than Catford, they would nowadays be as critically revered as Can, Faust, Neu! and those other hallowed Teutonic pioneers of unyielding rhythm from the 1970s. Maybe so. Very probably not. Canned Heat and ZZ Top seem more reachable comparisons. But it’s
Cinema has reached a nadir in the new Mission: Impossible
From the magazineChristopher Wheeldon’s real gifts lie in abstract dance
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Magnificent: The Deep Blue Sea, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, reviewed
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If you are of a certain age, you’ll really enjoy Tina Fey’s The Four Seasons
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Wes Anderson’s latest is as hollow as anything AI could come up with
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The forgotten story of British opera
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