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Battle Royale May 10, 2023
Two houses, each alike in indignity. For there can be no dignity when the world knows your business because your exiled brother and his American wife are complaining about you to the media. The Meghan and Harry saga is what Sigmund Freud and Elizabet...
Ghosts of British Life May 09, 2023
One summer, when I was a student, I worked at the Tower of London for a few weeks. The work itself was pretty soul destroying, but in my breaks I could wander anywhere I wanted within the Tower’s precincts. Chatting to Beefeaters was a particular hig...
Meghan Markle’s Comeback May 08, 2023
Maybe it was always going this way. After being a briefcase girl, an actress, a D-list celebrity and blowing it as a real-life royal, perhaps the only natural next step for Meghan Markle was to become an influencer. Look at Fergie, once married to Pr...
A Queen's Lesson for America May 02, 2023
The unity that the death of Queen Elizabeth II brought to the United Kingdom last fall offers a provocative contrast to the division characteristic of American democracy as we head into a presidential election next year.British electoral politics can...
Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to You, Possums) Is Dead at 89 April 24, 2023
Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more.To be unflinchingly precise, Barry Humphries, the Australian-born actor and comic who for almost seven decades brought that divine doyenne of divadom, Dame Edna Everage, to delirious, dotty, disdainful Dadaist life, ...
