When I was 15 in 1978, the English, Drama and Music departments of my school, Brigshaw Comprehensive, held ‘An Evening of Dreams.’ The programme consisted of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, a reading from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a performance of the Everly Brothers’ All I Have To Do Is Dream. There was […]
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Should we speak ill of the dead? Probably, not–if we can help ourselves. Speaking ill of someone who can’t speak up for himself is too much like kicking a chap when he’s down. But how about speaking ill of the living for praising the dead for qualities they didn’t have? Surely, we may do that,
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When George Bush Jr sent his troops into Iraq back in 2003, his declared motive was the extirpation of Saddam Hussein’s WMDs and the elimination of Iraqi-sponsored terrorism. The Left dismissed his demarche as a cynical desire to annex Iraq’s oil reserves. Millions of anti-war protesters marched in capitals across sixty nations. Yet, now that Nicolas
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There is much political noise about the Covid enquiry, stop the boats, the Rwanda plan and COP28, but the most important and potentially most terrifying topic is barely discussed. The war in Ukraine is at a crossroads, with a general lack of western leadership in the face of increased Russian aggression. Western leaders appear happy to bury
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Christmas is a time for families, apparently. But don’t despair, there are some enjoyable aspects to it too. Who doesn’t like getting whooshed up on alcohol at breakfast time, especially if your Christmas is going to be a time for ‘the family’? Under the guise of bucks fizz we have the perfect excuse to neck
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I had a revealing conversation with a Year 10 class last week. They asked me what I thought about the repatriation of the Elgin Marbles. ‘Should they be sent back to Greece?’ one asked. Initially surprised by an unexpected foray into current affairs, I demurred from committing to a position, concerned that the wrong answer
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(Photograph: TheAsianAwards, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) When the beknighted multimillionaire Lenny Henry made the claim that black people were underrepresented on television back in 2019 (while simultaneously receiving the ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ at the South Bank Sky Arts award ceremony), I naïvely suspected he’d bitten off more than he could chew. I should have
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As a fifteen-year-old studying for O Level in History some forty years ago, one of the topics I learned about was the League of Nations. This was an international structure established after the Great War to prevent more wars from erupting. It was a forerunner of today’s United Nations. I had to learn about the
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‘Net Zero’, we hear these words echoed on the news bulletins, and I am sure you will encounter them on a daily if not hourly basis. This is not just because of the current COP28 in Dubai. The term is used by all and sundry as the reason for ULEZ, LEZ, LTN, veganism, not flying,
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Even if (like me) you know precious little about the law, the chances are you know one thing: Lady Justice is supposed to be blind. Equality before the law is a cornerstone of any functioning democracy, and is vital for social cohesion. Despite what we may have witnessed playing out on the streets of London recently (alongside
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