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TRADITIONALLY the first item of business of any elected prime minister following an acrimonious leadership spat is the night of the long knives and the settling of scores.
And if this week has shown us anything, apart from the fact that what passes for politics in this country appears to be irredeemably broken, it is that Theresa May is nothing if not a traditionalist.
It wasn’t long before heads began to roll and cronies, as well as some enemies, were advanced in the grand old tradition of Machiavellian diplomacy.
It may have become a traditional month for holidays, but episodes from early British labour movement history show that class struggle never takes time off, argues KEITH FLETT
GORDON PARSONS salutes the apt return of Brecht’s vaudevillian cartoon drama that retains the vitality of the boxing or the circus ring
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’