I was saddened to hear that Roger Lloyd-Pack passed away today. To most people he was Trigger from Only Fools and Horses. But he was also a committed left-wing campaigner, standing up for vital causes even in his last months. I never met him in person, but I was proud to have worked with him […]
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Margaret Thatcher died today. They say you should not speak ill of the dead, so I shan’t be writing any long obituaries. Thatcher was my ideological opposite, after all. Born in the year of the miner’s strike, I was too young to remember much of her time in power, but looking back on her record,
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I was saddened today to hear of the death of Richard Griffiths. There were many roles in which he glowed, not least as Hector in The History Boys. But his standout performance for me was as the flamboyant, predatory thesp Uncle Monty in Withnail & I, who wept in butcher’s shops, thought the cauliflower more
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Latin America’s staunchest warrior, lost his final battle to cancer today. Hugo Chavez was a divisive figure; he polarised his country and the world’s media. Critics will point out the dangers of the cult of personality he seemed to be building around himself, but he was far more than just another
