Emily Lawford
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- Sep 16, 2026
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Piddington's treason (opens the original)
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Two signs mark the entrance to Piddington, east Oxfordshire. “I AM SPARTACUS. YOU ARE SPARTACUS. WE ARE SPARTACUS,” reads one in blue and yellow letters. The other leans on a fence, bearing the words: “The Village That Roars.” Tim McNally, Piddington’s energetic parish council chair, came up with that one. It’s a tribute to the 1959 British comedy The Mouse That Roared. Peter Sellers plays the prime minister of Grand Fenwick, a tiny European Duchy that declares war on the US and accidentally win
Prince George starts at Eton and enters the belly of the beast (opens the original)
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In Exodus, Moses is tending to his flock when a bush bursts into flames and God’s voice calls out from within its leaves. At Eton, the Burning Bush is an elaborate 19th-century lamppost sitting on a stone plinth, and the voice is a teacher’s. For schoolboys the Bush is symbolic in its own way: during the “five-point challenge” in June, they have to break out of their boarding houses to meet at five places around the school – one is the Bush – while “beaks” (teachers) patrol the area and hand out
Exclusive: Brexit “bad boy” Arron Banks launched secret probe into Sunday Times star reporter (opens the original)
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Prominent Reform member Arron Banks hired private investigators to look into Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage’s finances, the New Statesman can reveal. Banks is a multi-millionaire businessman, and was a major Ukip donor. He co-founded the Leave.EU pro-Brexit campaign and, in May 2025, he stood unsuccessfully as the Reform candidate in the West of England mayoral election. Last month, an investigation led by Pogrund, editor of the Sunday Times’s Insight
Sarah Kane's Cleansed leaves you feeling anything but (opens the original)
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Midway through Sarah Kane’s Cleansed my mum whispered to me that she was about to pass out. I think it was just after someone’s feet had been cut off. She took out her hearing aid and kept her eyes closed for the rest of the play. Later an usher at Islington’s Almeida Theatre told me people have fainted in previews. Sarah Kane’s play is always a hard watch. Kane killed herself only a year after it premiered in 1998. She wrote Cleansed, she said, in part because of an idea in Roland Barthe’s “A L
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