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From Spectator LifeIf you have been to the cinema recently and arrived in time for the adverts, you may already know what I am talking about. Somewhere between promotions for mega-burgers in glorious technicolour and exotic holiday destinations, you are plunged into what seems an endless, but is actually only a two-minute, horror flick, entitled ‘Sicker than
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How universities raised a generation of activists
It was only a matter of time before America’s student protests spread to the UK. In Oxford, tents have been pitched on grass that, in ordinary times, no student is allowed to walk on. The ground outside King’s College in Cambridge looks like Glastonbury, complete with an ‘emergency toilet’ tent. Similar camps can be found
How universities raised a generation of activists
It was only a matter of time before America’s student protests spread to the UK. In Oxford, tents have been pitched on grass that, in ordinary times, no student is allowed to walk on. The ground outside King’s College in Cambridge looks like Glastonbury, complete with an ‘emergency toilet’ tent. Similar camps can be found
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Minority Report is superficial pap – why on earth stage it?
From the magazineMinority Report is a plodding bit of sci-fi based on a Steven Spielberg movie made more than two decades ago. The setting is London, 2050, and every citizen has been implanted with an undetectably tiny neuroscanner which informs the cops about crimes before they’ve been committed. However, as the first scene reveals, the undetectably tiny
Yunchan Lim’s Chopin isn’t as good as his Liszt or Rach
From the magazineAcross Britain punters are lapping up ultra-trad opera – the Arts Council will be disgusted
From the magazineDense, melancholic, hypnotic: Brighde Chaimbeul, at Summerhall, reviewed
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‘‘If I’d known this was going to happen, I wouldn’t have bothered with the gender-reassignment surgery.’’
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