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LEAR: Who stock’d my servant? … O sides, you are too tough; Will you yet hold? How came my man i’ the stocks? CORNWALL: I set him there, sir: but his own disorders Deserved much less advancement. KING LEAR You! did you? REGAN I pray you, father, being weak, seem so. If, till the expiration Read more
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Your prophets are like jackals among ruins. Ezekiel 13:4 I wrote three years ago that a plebiscite might lance the boil of the EU’s perceived undemocratic illegitimacy. But the choice needed to be on a clear prospectus: what are we actually voting for or against? What is going on in the UK at the moment Read more
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With Britain’s declaration of war on Germany 100 years ago this week the old ‘ornamentalist’ order (David Cannadine) began to self-destruct. A year earlier in 1913, George Butterworth, grainily recorded here reviving folk dances, had composed his melodious ‘idyll’, the Banks of Green Willow, as if a soundtrack to the last spring of old England. Read more
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