Michael Deacon

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OpinionMichael DeaconWed, April 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC4 min readWith a grin of malevolent glee, Nigel Farage has announced that he and Reform are “parking our tanks on Labour’s lawn”. And with just two weeks to go until the local elections, plus the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, many in Labour are terrified. So they’re frantically trying to brainstorm ways to scupper Mr Farage’s plans. One group of Labour MPs has been begging Sir Keir Starmer to “do more on illegal migration” (like what?

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Michael Deacon

With a grin of malevolent glee, Nigel Farage has announced that he and Reform are “parking our tanks on Labour’s lawn”. And with just two weeks to go until the local elections, plus the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, many in Labour are terrified. So they’re frantically trying to brainstorm ways to scupper Mr Farage’s plans. One group of Labour MPs has been begging Sir Keir Starmer to “do more on illegal migration” (like what? Keep increasing it?).

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Michael Deacon

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OpinionMichael DeaconTue, April 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC4 min readCongratulations to Ncuti Gatwa, the star of Doctor Who, on landing an exciting new role. He’s been cast in Born with Teeth, a Royal Shakespeare Company play about the relationship between the Bard and his fellow Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Mr Gatwa says the play is “like no version of Shakespeare and Marlowe that I’ve ever seen before”. I can well believe it. Not least because Mr Gatwa is to play Marlowe.