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I am deeply impressed by Ayoub Khan

I am deeply impressed by Ayoub Khan
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Theatre / I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro 

Theatre /					 													 						I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro 
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Theatre / I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro 

Theatre /					 													 						I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro 
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Reeves’s Spring Statement just doesn’t add up

Reeves’s Spring Statement just doesn’t add up
26.03.2025 1

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The Zoom call that confirmed my fears about Just Stop Oil

23.03.2025 30

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Theatre / Irresistible: Clueless, at the Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed

Theatre /					 													 						Irresistible: Clueless, at the Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed
21.03.2025 10

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Irresistible: Clueless, at the Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed

Irresistible: Clueless, at the Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed
20.03.2025 10

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Starmer looked scared of Badenoch at PMQs

19.03.2025 4

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Sketch / Is Kemi Badenoch getting better at PMQs?

Sketch /					 													 						Is Kemi Badenoch getting better at PMQs?
12.03.2025 2

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No life / My brush with a rabid monkey

11.03.2025 20

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No life / My brush with a rabid monkey

11.03.2025 10

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Let men do the housework!

08.03.2025 10

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Brian Cox’s Bach has to be heading for Broadway

06.03.2025 10

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PMQs was a façade

05.03.2025 2

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Sick of it / How Armando Iannucci lost his edge

05.03.2025 10

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Shakespeare as cruise-ship entertainment: Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing reviewed

27.02.2025 10

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PMQs / We saw the real Starmer today – and it was ugly

26.02.2025 3

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Tedious and threadbare: Unicorn, at the Garrick Theatre, reviewed

20.02.2025 10

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If you have two hours to spare, spend it anywhere but here: The Years reviewed

13.02.2025 10

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Kemi is starting to sound like Sir Keir

12.02.2025 4

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Stylish facsimile of Carol Reed’s film: Oliver!, at the Gielgud Theatre, reviewed

06.02.2025 10

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Kemi finally has a good PMQs

05.02.2025 5

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Theatre / An excellent sixth-form drama project: Santi & Naz, at Soho Theatre, reviewed 

03.02.2025 10

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An excellent sixth-form drama project: Santi & Naz, at Soho Theatre, reviewed 

30.01.2025 9

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Starmer can’t keep blaming the Tories

29.01.2025 2

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The Traitors finale was a cruel spectacle

25.01.2025 5

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Theatre / Pious bilge: Kyoto, at @sohoplace, reviewed

23.01.2025 10

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Pious bilge: Kyoto, at @sohoplace, reviewed

23.01.2025 10

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PMQs was a particularly dozy affair

22.01.2025 2

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Cheerless and fussy: The Tempest, at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, reviewed

16.01.2025 8

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Keir can thank God for Kemi

15.01.2025 3

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Exquisite: Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed

09.01.2025 10

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The issue of rape gangs will not go away

Finally, we heard it. At PMQs today, the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, dropped the euphemism ‘grooming’ and said ‘rape gangs’ to describe the...

08.01.2025 4

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Theatre / Brutal and brilliant portrait of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

Lloyd Evans has narrated this article for you to listen to. The Last Days of Liz Truss? is a one-woman show about the brief interregnum between...

07.01.2025 2

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Theatre / Brutal and brilliant portrait of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

Lloyd Evans has narrated this article for you to listen to. The Last Days of Liz Truss? is a one-woman show about the brief interregnum between...

07.01.2025 2

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Brutal and brilliant portrait of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

The Last Days of Liz Truss? is a one-woman show about the brief interregnum between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. We first meet the future prime...

02.01.2025 6

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Theatre / Elton John’s The Devil Wears Prada is sumptuous but unmemorable

The Devil Wears Prada is a fairy tale about an aspiring female novelist, Andy, who receives a job offer from Runway, the nastiest and most...

27.12.2024 7

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Is Kemi Badenoch too nice to be Tory leader?

Kemi Badenoch got tough with Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs. Not tough enough, but at least she led on a decent issue: old folks in distress. She...

18.12.2024 5

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Don’t blame this man for interrupting David Tennant

The curse of Macbeth strikes again. David Tennant’s turn as the Scottish psychopath was interrupted this week by a kerfuffle in the auditorium at...

12.12.2024 5

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Kemi Badenoch is bad at PMQs

Flunked it again, unfortunately. Kemi Badenoch chose poor tactics at PMQs. She made flabby speeches instead of hitting the PM with short, sharp...

11.12.2024 4

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This Muslim playwright believes Yorkshire is headed for civil war

Expendable, at the Royal Court, is an urgent bulletin from the front line of the grooming gang scandal in the north of England. The setting is a...

05.12.2024 10

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Kemi let Starmer off the hook again

Labour thinks it can win on immigration. Their new strategy was road-tested today at PMQs as backbencher Olivia Bailey opened the session saluting...

04.12.2024 10

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Wonderful comedy of manners: Kiln Theatre’s The Purists reviewed

A slice of the ghetto arrives at the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn. The Purists is set on the stoop of a crumbling block in Queens, New York, and the...

28.11.2024 3

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Kemi Badenoch must get better at PMQs

Third time lucky for Kemi Badenoch. The Tory leader’s first two attempts to crush Keir Starmer at PMQs failed. Today she began by attacking the...

27.11.2024 3

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No life / The uncomfortable truth about boozing

‘Good for you. Amazing. I should do the same.’ ‘You must feel great. Lucky you.’ This is what I hear when I tell people I haven’t touched...

21.11.2024 4

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Heart-warming but safe biographical drama: Going for Gold, at Park90, reviewed

Going for Gold is a biographical drama about a forgotten star of the 1970s. Frankie Lucas was a middleweight boxing champion, born on the Caribbean...

21.11.2024 3

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Angela Rayner has lost her edge

It was deputies’ day at PMQs. Sir Keir Starmer is busy flying around the world yet again. This time he’s trying to charm the unlucky leaders of the...

20.11.2024 3

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Making hay / Why the farmers’ protest probably won’t work

Cold drizzle falling on tweed. That was the abiding image of today’s protest in Westminster which filled Whitehall with tens of thousands of...

19.11.2024 20

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A flop: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, at Ambassadors Theatre, reviewed

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button carries a strap-line, ‘an unordinary musical’. Perhaps the word ‘extraordinary’ is simply too banal to...

14.11.2024 6

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