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...Love’s Labour’s Lost is ripe for a complete overhaul, and director Emily Burns, fresh from Dear Octopus, certainly gives us that, transferring Shakespeare’s setting to an island in the Pacific....
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...In the US, economic sentiment has long been tied to voters’ feelings about the incumbent party, as John Burn-Murdoch wrote last week. But this correlation has become unmoored....
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...markets The gas-guzzling heyday of the world’s largest oil market is receding as more efficient cars, the arrival of mass-market electric vehicles and the rise of working from home prompt US motorists to burn...
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...Go deeper: Britain and America’s electoral geographies are broken, argues chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch....
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...attitudes are hardly the sole preserve of the American right, but the breadth and depth of politicisation and polarisation in the US far outstrip what we see anywhere else in the developed world, writes John Burn-Murdoch...
...The misery of an energy crisis in Europe did wonders for anyone producing stuff to burn. This year, not so much....
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...Despite fewer severe cases, the volume of infections means hundreds of thousands will be unwell in the long term, John Burn-Murdoch explains. Should artists have a stake in their own work?...
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...With career versus family no longer such a trade-off for women, “having it all” is only possible with increased paternal childcare, writes John Burn-Murdoch....
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