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4 days ago

Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare

The mood is very fragile. There is a f…

11 days ago

Gary Clarke Company: Detention review – horror and humour in stand against Section 28

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Place, London
The Yorkshire-born dance artist concludes his social historical trilogy on the Thatcher era by celebrating resistance to homophobia

Gary Clarke grew up in a Yorkshire mining village …

33 days ago

The Lady's not for spurning: Margaret Thatcher's home town will hold week-long festival to mark what would have been Tory icon's 100th birthday

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'The Festival of Thatcher' is being backed by council leaders in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in celebration of the UK's first female prime minister.

52 days ago

David Tennant wishes JK Rowling no ‘ill will’ but says trans people ‘demonised’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Actor who appeared in film of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hopes ‘we can all as a society just let people be’

David Tennant has criticised the “demonisation” of the trans community, saying that…

83 days ago

3 months ago

Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy | Simon Jenkins

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The PM sounds like Elon Musk when promising to fight the ‘blockers’, but his government’s plans will weaken the link between peoples and politics

Every new prime minister has an Elon Musk moment. A su…

4 months ago

When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny | Tim Walker

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image

  • Tim Walker is a writer and broadcaster. When Maggie Met Larry is on Radio 4 at 3…

After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering

Now she’s an opera. Yet another myth-making…

‘The best screen Thatcher yet?’: the art (and craft) of playing the former PM

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Harriet Walter’s acclaimed portrayal is the latest of many screen versions. So how do you create the Thatcher persona?

Harriet Walter has become the ­latest in a line of actors, from Meryl Streep and …

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