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...Alas The Regime appears to be working under the assumption that its heavily signposted parallels with real events are daring satire; that its depiction of a petty, petulant dictator is telling us something...
...A dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions....
...Then you’ve got another generation looking down, accusing them of being self-involved and petty.” She looks ironic. “What does that remind you of?”...
...New Boy , by Tracy Chevalier, Hogarth, RRP£12.99/$25, 192 pages Photograph: H Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images...
...PANELLISTS: Harsh Patel, Principal, Victory Park Capital Rhydian Lewis, Founder and CEO, RateSetter Sachin Patel, Global Head of Capital Markets, Funding Circle Tracy Alloway, Executive Editor, Bloomberg...
...Even the residual warmth of Todd Solondz is absent from these dysfunctional Dallas-dwellers, scripted by Tracy Letts (from his stage play) and directed by William Exorcist Friedkin....
...Things like petty bribery are a day-to-day fact of life in India, but this latest — unrelenting — outpouring of scandal is a step-change....
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