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Henry V
1 comment on Henry VLast Friday I went to see Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe on the South bank. It was a bit of a late birthday treat and I had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon watching the play in that wonderfully recreated “wooden O”. Perhaps my only niggles would be the extraordinarily irritating laugh of a woman sitting next to us and the decision of what appeared to be every helicopter in London to fly over the airspace above the…
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Review: Michael Cockerell’s ‘The Great Offices of State’
I’ve just finished catching up on, courtesy of iPlayer downloads, the BBC 4 documentary series ‘The Great Offices of State‘ filmed by journalist Michael Cockerell. Unfortunately the series is no longer on iPlayer so you will need to look out for the repeats if you want to watch it. The series consisted of three programmes each looking, as the name suggests, at the three great offices of the British state; the Home Office, the Foreign…
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Total Politics: a review
I’ve been enjoying the issues of Total Politics magazine that I am being regularly sent. It is good to read a publication that takes a positive approach to politics, that understands that it something done by real people and mostly for good reasons, and is concerned to write intelligently about it. Some of the highlights of the latest issue (Issue 6) for me have been learning about Nick Clegg’s worrying (and frankly illiberal) choice of…
