“Not a single man or boy appears in the real world, save Riley’s dad. Its preoccupations are alien to boys in a way they were not in the original film.”

🍿 David Sexton reviews Inside Out 2
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“Hereditary peers will be removed from the Lords, and peers will be required to retire at 80.”

🖊️ Chris Deerin
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“That sounds unnervingly reminiscent of Help To Buy, which helped bid up prices by increasing demand without increasing supply.”

🖊️ jonn elledge

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“Soon I found myself plucking random thoughts from the pages of a flawed life. Schubert had become my confessor.”

🎸 Michael Henderson
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“No doubt, this will be another weird summer where football converges with politics, as it usually does.”

🖊️ Clive Martin

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“A long time coming, it is conclusive proof that the current societal model is not viable.”

🖊️ Christophe Guilluy
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The claim that Labour is turning away from the ideas of the past 14 years seems far-fetched – at least, for now.

📫 Today’s Morning Call, with Freddie Hayward

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“Winny was our wartime hero, so why were we chanting for Attlee? Must have been the mood on the streets at the times.”

🖊️ Hunter Davies
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“I am wary of admitting I have lost weight because it feels like suggesting that past me had, in some way, failed.”

🤦 Pippa Bailey in Deleted Scenes
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“[Dominic West] makes a lot of the role in a compelling performance that captures the humour of the play and the darkness.”

🎭 Jason Cowley reviews A View from the Bridge
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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

“Just look up and you’ll find the sky still there.” I haven’t always remembered this, but mostly I have.

❓ The NS Q&A, with Shami Chakrabarti
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“In other words, I can’t tell them off for doing something stupid if I’ve done the same thing before and enjoyed it.”

🖊️ @NickLezard newstatesman.com/culture/life/2…

It's one reason I call Labour's manifesto quietly radical. Starmer hasn't gone around shouting that public bodies will have a legal duty to reduce inequality. But it's in there. newstatesman.com/politics/2024/…

“Now, nine years later, here’s Inside Out 2, which Pixar hopes will be the biggest theatrical release of the year.”

🍿 David Sexton reviews Inside Out 2
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“The manifesto is not without edge.”

🖊️ Chris Deerin
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'The form of Brexit we were given by Boris Johnson has not worked'

Andrew Marr argues Britain should rethink Brexit after the general election, on the New Statesman podcast.

Listen here: pod.fo/e/2466c0

“Everyone can see what Eddie cannot: that there is no way out for him. He has started something only he can finish.”

🎭 Jason Cowley reviews A View from the Bridge
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Labour’s manifesto is quietly radical - New Statesman

Great read from ⁦George Eaton⁩ newstatesman.com/politics/2024/…

“They both see themselves as modernisers in how they ripped up the existing structures at their respective HQs. They seem to inhabit the same, softly-spoken “better Britain”, and are fully-paid up members of Team Sensible.”

🖊️ Clive Martin

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“If this crisis was easy to solve, someone would have done it already.”

🖊️ jonn elledge

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