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Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war
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Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare
The mood is very fragile. There is a f…
20 days ago
Gary Clarke Company: Detention review – horror and humour in stand against Section 28
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The Yorkshire-born dance artist concludes his social historical trilogy on the Thatcher era by celebrating resistance to homophobia
Gary Clarke grew up in a Yorkshire mining village …
42 days ago
The Lady's not for spurning: Margaret Thatcher's home town will hold week-long festival to mark what would have been Tory icon's 100th birthday
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David Tennant wishes JK Rowling no ‘ill will’ but says trans people ‘demonised’
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Actor who appeared in film of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hopes ‘we can all as a society just let people be’
David Tennant has criticised the “demonisation” of the trans community, saying that…
3 months ago
From the archive: Is society coming apart? – podcast
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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.
This week, from 2021: Despite Thatcher and Reagan’s best effor…
Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy | Simon Jenkins
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The PM sounds like Elon Musk when promising to fight the ‘blockers’, but his government’s plans will weaken the link between peoples and politics
Every new prime minister has an Elon Musk moment. A su…
4 months ago
When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny | Tim Walker
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The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image
- Tim Walker is a writer and broadcaster. When Maggie Met Larry is on Radio 4 at 3…
After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee
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A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering
Now she’s an opera. Yet another myth-making…