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Saturday, 13 June 2020

Let's support diversity by raising UP, rather than tearing down

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As if the world couldn't get any stranger: Covid-19 is now enhanced by yet more race-related tragedy out of the United States. We've...
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Sunday, 31 May 2020

Top picks for a pandemic-constrained English holiday

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After nine weeks in pandemic lockdown, and just in time for the bank holiday weekend, restrictions in the UK started to ease ever so slightl...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Life in lockdown has its delights Chez Bencard

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Seven weeks have passed since the "non-essential" world shut down and we retreated into isolation, with one weekly grocery trip an...
Thursday, 19 March 2020

Art banishes gloom as I rush to London's museums before Covid-19 forces closure

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I can date my first memory precisely: 20 July, 1969. My parents sat me before our television and proclaimed with solemn gravity: "Remem...
Thursday, 12 March 2020

Despite big budget firepower, ENO's Luisa Miller pales before a provincial Butterfly

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Warning, readers: I'm climbing onto my opera soapbox again. I've written regularly about my frustration when the modern preferen...
Friday, 6 March 2020

Glorious Upstart Crow is one of the funniest things to ever bless the London Stage

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If you appreciate Shakespeare, think the finest form of comedy is witty wordplay, believe that  Blackadder  is a masterpiece of British tel...
Friday, 21 February 2020

Leonardo grabs the headlines, Apollon wins my heart

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Leonardo da Vinci draws superlatives like pollen pulls bees, so it's no surprise that the Louvre went big on the marketing of its curren...
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