Final cut: Mr Jones (2019)
A film about George Orwell, Lloyd George, Maxim Litivinov and the Ukraine famine? SIMON MATTHEWS has a look.
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‘They wouldn’t put up with those hats’
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Post-referendum blues?
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The donkeys
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Mrs Merton vs Ken Livingstone
Caroline Aherne’s analysis of Labour’s identity crisis. Continue reading
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Bloater paste and brown ale
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Calling all cliches: Wielding the knife
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‘Anything, as long as it’s controversial’
ALWYN TURNER celebrates a defeat for columnist-politicians. Continue reading
‘Labour: the road to oblivion’
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The next prime minister
Who should lead the nation, and will they have democratic legitimacy? Continue reading
‘An overfed Che Guevara’: A press portrait of Tom Watson
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