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  • 2 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Madeline Grant

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that any article about Jane Austen must begin with a mangled, platitudinous variation on her most famous line. Irritating though this is, it’s rather a good metaphor for the state of the wider treatment of Austen – and her near contemporaries – by popular culture. When it comes to adaptations of novels from the Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods, and even longer ago, we find ourselves in a deep trough.

  • 2 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Madeline Grant

    It has taken Sir Keir Starmer just under 11 months to enter his Brezhnev era. Portly, autocratic and reliant on past glories, the Prime Minister began today’s PMQs by reading a list that would make Borat proud of the infrastructural benevolences to make benefit glorious region of Red Wall. In Sir Keir’s world, there is no decay or decline: the economy is booming, pensioners and children are well cared for and the streets are safe. The praesidium – sorry, Front Bench – lapped this up.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Madeline Grant

    Which institution has fallen furthest in the recent decades of British history? That they have fallen is indisputable: where once the pillars of our public life were the envy of the globe, they are now riddled with a very particular type of rot. We might call this lanyardism. What is lanyardism? Well, to paraphrase Kenneth Clark in Civilisation, I know it when I see it. It means cutting front-line services in favour of indolent clipboard-people with impenetrable job titles.

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Madeline Grant

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Madeline Grant

    The Prime Minister simply ignored the question in favour of further boasting about his deal with the EU. "I went immediately to Lidl and spoke to the staff there", Oinky informed us. "They love it!" Just imagine, one minute you're restocking the discount yogurts and the next you're confronted with The Living Adenoid. He was lucky someone didn't mistake him for a self-service checkout. The Labour backbenches took further poundings from both Reform and the Lib Dems.

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