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...Spector, director Katy Rudd and her cast have a lot of fun satirising the bien pensant liberal left: headteacher Don (Mark McKinney) is a cuddly, ageing hippie, who, in one toe-curling moment, “welcomes...
...By Mishra’s yardstick he thus belongs to the “bien pensant” classes he reviles. All of which is a shame because Mishra has plenty to say. A lot of it richly deserves being said....
...Louise’s anger is understandable, says Bernard Spitz, author of On Achève Bien les Jeunes (“They shoot youths, don’t they?”)...
...She is not voluptuous — she is what the French would describe as bien dans sa peau....
...In the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor, the first episode of which was broadcast in 1979, a few months after the election of Margaret Thatcher, Connie is played by Beryl Reid and Smiley with fastidious,...
...The former president gives a throaty chuckle as an aide says the single name “Margaret” from the sidelines....
...Asked to name her proudest achievement, Margaret Thatcher plumped for Tony Blair and his market-friendly New Labour: “We forced our opponents to change their minds.”...
...American violinist Margaret Gould enthused about the “amazing” repertoire the orchestra is performing: “We’re capable of it, it’s within our reach.”...
...This finding from Peter Baldwin’s meticulous, insistent and elegant book may be shocking to those who, like the English writer Margaret Drabble, are rendered nauseous by contemplation of the monstrous country...
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