Hapless Stephen Doughty was given the hospital pass of defending the PM over the ex-US ambassador’s appointment Just what has Stephen Doughty done to upset Keir Starmer? Are there no limits to the prime minister’s contempt and hatred? Not that Steve is a total nobody. He’s not a run-of-the-mill backbencher. […]
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Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flame Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89 – news Robert Redford […]
Minerva theatre, Chichester Justin Audibert’s lucid production is classically considered, with a fine cast making full unsettling use of the intimate space By the time Laurence Olivier became Chichester Festival theatre’s first artistic director in 1962, he was already a revered Hamlet on stage and screen. But Chichester has never […]
After a tough week for Labour, Donald Trump is touching down for a state visit. Let’s hope the PM can stomach it Quick update on Keir Starmer’s government of “national renewal”: having just lost his deputy and housing secretary over her failure to pay the required stamp duty, the prime […]
Lowles has spent his entire adult life organising against fascism, facing countless threats as a result. He discusses the street confrontations of the 80s, foiling a murder plot, Nazi satanists – and the urgent need for optimism and action In 1979, a 10-year-old Nick Lowles saw a hard-right party political […]
Nigel’s gang has its own ‘one in, one out’ policy, having lost two MPs since the election – now it’s all eyes on the next one to exit Nigel Farage has always been keen on a “one in, one out” policy. At the last election, Reform won five seats. Two […]
As the show based on their cult TV hit goes on the road, the duo discuss haunted theatres, feeling like arthritic swans and what it was like being mobbed in Shanghai How do you make a shopping centre in Woking spooky? I bow before Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s many […]
This week the first migrants could be flown out of Britain under the ‘one in, one out’ deportation scheme. They talk about their fears and incomprehension “We can’t eat. We can’t sleep. We have been locked up in this place for more than a month. Some people expect to be […]
Created in 1997 and once a Victorian toilet, the 10 sq metre venue was at risk of demolition until the residents of Malvern, Worcestershire, stepped in Perched on a sign above a tiny stage draped with red velvet curtains are the Latin words “Multum in parvo”. Meaning “much in little”, […]
The whole pantomime is meaningless. The leader makes his or her speech, the commentariat falls upon it, and to anyone half normal reality simply continues, undisturbed Conference season has arrived for the big political parties, and every year for the past 20 years, I have attended some, though not all, […]