Presque vu XXXXI

Tony Blair made a 35 minute speech to 400 millionaire bankers in Las Vegas last week. The ex-prime minister’s fee for the event was £125,000. He urged his audience to support the policies of George Bush’s republican world view. Allegedly the Clinton’s were not too chuffed.
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Family Voices

We were in Sheffield last evening to see a reading of Harold Pinter’s Family Voices. The Sheffield Crucible Theatre are celebrating Pinter’s work, and this was just one of several productions around the same theme.
The play was directed by Polly Thomas and Justine Potter and recorded for the BBC. The voices were read by Samuel [...]






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