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Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on - The Guardian
25 May 2012, 4:54 pm
"It is difficult to find a bright moment in 1972," wrote the historian Christopher Lee in This Sceptred Isle. And he had a point. Few people think back fondly to a year that saw mass unemployment, a miners' strike that led to blackouts lasting nine hours a ...
This sceptered style - Financial Times
25 May 2012, 2:53 pm
Austerity may be looming over Europe but it isn’t affecting fashion, which has embraced an opulent, rather royalist tone of late, evoking 1960s princesses, English aristos and Russian monarchs. “There are references to royalty everywhere in the ...
Melvyn Bragg: why we need heritage angels - Daily Telegraph
22 May 2012, 1:27 am
John of Gaunt, a high-born villain with some remarkably radical tendencies, regent to the young boy king Richard II and flailer of the poor, was given by Shakespeare the timeless phrase “this sceptred isle”. And many of us can still see it. We see it ...
Still, there's no place like Home - Toronto Sun
20 May 2012, 6:40 pm
the “sceptred Isle” that is their home. And yet, the playwright implies with often subtle humour, all is not right in their world and we’re not just talking the decline of the British Empire that they periodically lament. That fact becomes ...
Euro discontent could infect us - South Wales Argus
17 May 2012, 4:32 am
one is left with the feeling that increasing civil unrest in these countries isn’t too far away and is likely to infect our sceptred isle. I base my theory on the fact that our government, though outside this élite club, continues to follow the same ...
Shakespeare?s Italy - Ghanasoccernet
12 May 2012, 9:46 am
Yet truth be told, the Bard had split loyalties. While many of his 38 plays were set in ?this sceptred isle? of Britain, 13 of them were based or part-based in the sunnier climes of Italy. From the lovelorn streets of Romeo and Juliet?
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