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AS THE most tumultuous, cataclysmic and risibly farcical month in the recent history of British politics proceeds at pace it was tempting to think that nothing else could possibly occur to make the situation more ludicrous.
That however was to factor without prospective Tory leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom.
The hitherto peripheral Energy Minister appears to be revelling in her new-found, and most likely short-lived, celebrity status.
Long before modern labour movements, England’s farmworkers fought back against their oppression – and for some, like Elizabeth Studham, the price was exile to Australia. MAT COWARD tells the story
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD
GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by an unsubtle production of this comedy of upper middle class infidelity