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Kate Maltby

The Guardian

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Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence

In 1986, Sigourney Weaver completed her second Alien movie and returned to New York’s off-Broadway scene to prove she could do Shakespeare. For...

29.12.2024 40

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

We are scared to talk about cousin marriage – but we must

The American novelist Louisa May Alcott is best known for the Little Women series of novels. In the 1870s, however, her popularity with female...

23.12.2024 4

iNews

Kate Maltby

Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories

This Christmas, find some pity for Lynda Snell MBE. Fans of the BBC radio soap The Archers know Lynda as the stalwart organiser of every Christmas...

22.12.2024 3

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Chris Riddell on Labour’s Lawmaker Express. It is not for turning – cartoon

30.11.2024 2

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

The assisted dying bill answers few questions - but raises bigger, scarier ones

Between April 2022 and April 2024, a government computer divorced 79 couples by accident. Divorce within a year of marriage is illegal in the UK; a...

12.11.2024 2

iNews

Kate Maltby

America's future is our future – we just don't get to choose it

If you’ve been anxious while waiting for the results of this week’s US election, spare a thought for the nerves of the UK’s security services....

05.11.2024 2

iNews

Kate Maltby

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