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standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
CommentThis blurring of the boundaries between the private and the public is obsceneMelanie McDonagh1 minute agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. All one can say is, thank God the Queen isn’t alive to see it.
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standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
CommentThe Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Melanie McDonagh2 minutes agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.
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yahoo.com | Melanie McDonagh
The opportunity not to vote for Sandi Toksvig should never be lightly passed over, so I shall be casting a ballot in the elections for the chancellor of Cambridge. Excitingly, you can do so online, though I’d prefer to be obliged to turn up in person. Browsing through the manifestos is a dispiriting experience. It’s not just Sandi whose mission is to further diversity and inclusion; everyone is determined to engage in outreach and brag about being at a state school.
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telegraph.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
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standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
CommentMelanie McDonagh1 minute agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Only this morning, Bernie Sanders, the man I say was robbed of the US presidency (by H.Clinton), was on the radio – BBC4 – talking about what matters in politics. And the secret?
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1 week ago | 
standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
Going Out | Food + DrinkIt’s picnic season, time for pork pies and wedges of cheese. Melanie McDonagh picks the best hampers for summerThe Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Melanie McDonagh2 minutes agoSign up for our expert view on everything that’s worth eating, drinking and queuing for in LondonI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.
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1 week ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Melanie McDonagh
Rocio opens the door. “There’s nothing left in the shop and the others are still clearing up lunch. They can’t talk now and we haven’t eaten yet.” She is the youngest member of the group formed around three schismatic nuns who have dared to defy their archbishop and have emerged from cloister with a vengeance. It’s 5 p.m. on a Saturday. “I’m so hungry my stomach hurts,” she adds, with a huge smile.
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1 week ago | 
standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
CommentCloseMelanie McDonagh1 minute ago COMMENTSGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. There was, obviously, about Nigel Farage’s launch of Reform’s programme for government, a Tinkerbell element.
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1 week ago | 
standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
CommentMelanie McDonagh1 minute agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Baffled revulsion was the natural and universal response to the car-ramming horror in Liverpool yesterday. But there was another surprise: the swift police revelation that the suspect they arrested is a “white British male”.
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1 week ago | 
standard.co.uk | Melanie McDonagh
Culture | ExhibitionsThis exhibition is less about flowers and more about the chance to appreciate how Beaton wove them into his lifeCecil BeatonMelanie McDonagh1 minute agoCecil Beaton’s Garden Party, the exhibition, isn’t, alas, just about that fabulous fete champetre he held at his country home in Wiltshire in 1937 for his gilded young friends.
