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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Hill’s striking heyday
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‘Morale could not be lower’
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The curious case of the kidnapped communist
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Proud to be British: Hugh Grant
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Proud to be British
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Is this Britain’s worst radio presenter?
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Peter Oborne and the kiss of death
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‘It was not a happy period’
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‘A long time in politics’: Blowing hot and cold on the Autumn Statement
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