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...Other talented figures, such as Margaret Beckett, John Morris and George Foulkes, held on and became excellent ministers during Tony Blair’s premiership. But they were the exception, not the rule....
...Alan Moore has written some of the most influential graphic novels of our time, from the magisterial superhero deconstruction of Watchmen to V for Vendetta’s dystopian anarchistic howl for freedom....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Beckett writes haunting tales about the future, steeping them in a very British sense of insularity and post-imperial impotence....
...To Arthur’s energetic, hand-wagging stage direction, I did Crispin Crispian from Henry V, or “All The World’s a Stage” in the living room while my mother fried the gefilte fish....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...Labour’s Margaret Beckett tells the BBC she has a “horrible feeling” that immigration has helped the Conservative cause. 22.00 - Polls close....
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