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From Spectator LifeIt’s not just that the lunatics – sorry, ‘neuro-diverse’ – have taken over the asylum. They’ve taken over the asylum and started walking on their hands, and they’re determined to make us do the same or feel ashamed for staying the right way up. That is what I thought, anyway, when I read that children
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Streeting is causing trouble for Starmer
Wild Wes: Streeting is causing trouble for Starmer
Avote on assisted dying was supposed to be one of the easiest reforms for Keir Starmer’s government. To many, including the Prime Minister himself, a law allowing terminally ill patients to choose to die would be a self-evidently progressive and historically significant change. It would mean Britain could transcend the objections of a religious minority
Wild Wes: Streeting is causing trouble for Starmer
Avote on assisted dying was supposed to be one of the easiest reforms for Keir Starmer’s government. To many, including the Prime Minister himself, a law allowing terminally ill patients to choose to die would be a self-evidently progressive and historically significant change. It would mean Britain could transcend the objections of a religious minority
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A spectacular failure: Royal Ballet’s MaddAddam reviewed
From the magazineAdapting ballets out of plot-heavy novels set in fantasy locations and populated with multiple characters is a rubbish idea. The profound truth of such a proposal is forcefully borne out by the wretched muddle of Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam, an over-inflated farrago drawn from a triptych of visionary fictions by Margaret Atwood. McGregor – hugely talented
What a remarkably bad electric guitar player Bob Dylan is
From the magazineAvoids the breathless hype of so many podcasts: Finding Mr Fox reviewed
From the magazineHow did Wolf Hall escape the attentions of the BBC’s diversity commissars?
From the magazineStimulating little exhibition: Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites reviewed
From the magazineDazzling: Marc-André Hamelin’s Hammerklavier
From the magazineHeart-warming but safe biographical drama: Going for Gold, at Park90, reviewed
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