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...Nicholas Hytner’s production is one of dozens on offer right now: Dickens’s story of darkness conquered and priorities changed feels highly charged this year....
...The cabinet, few of whom entered politics to second-guess the private sector, is too meek. The Labour party, even if it were minded to object, is a non-factor....
...According to this narrative, Lloyds’ shareholders were victims of Blank’s meek submission to a government that was desperate to prevent the collapse of HBOS for fear of a contagious systemic crisis....
...Elegant it ain’t, but the play – and Nicholas Hytner’s big, bold production – are well in tune with both its subject matter and its times....
...Tim Hayward is editor of Fire & Knives and the FT’s regular restaurant critic in Nicholas Lander’s absence. …………………………………………………………….....
...The Heart Broke In , by James Meek, Canongate, RRP£17.99 Meek creates a compelling and wonderfully sharp family saga situated in the contemporary bohemian hinterlands of London....
...Nicholas Hytner is a brilliant theatre director....
...It is not all plain sailing with the cast, where some sing better than they can act and vice versa, highlighted here by Nicholas Garrett’s Carl-Magnus and Deanne Meek’s Charlotte, who can do both, magnificently...
...“The US relationship with India is of increased strategic importance to my country, and we are achieving a partnership between our two countries which is truly historic,” said Nicholas Burns, assistant US...
...The meek, in short, have inherited the theatre....
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