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Don’t Cry For Me Andy Murray
Can I really be alone? Can I really be the only Brit to find Murray’s post-Wimbledon blubbering neither moving nor touching but mawkish, inappropriate and self-indulgent? What has become of our age-old stiff upper lip, bulldog spirit and blitzkrieg defiance? Since when did grown sportsmen – worse, British ones – believe it was acceptable [...]
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We’re all in this together? Not since Marie Antoinette’s infamous “let them eat cake” has a phrase so neatly captured the class divide. For despite what the likes of David Cameron and his erstwhile chum, the former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, might once have thought – we are blatantly not all in this together. The [...]
Murdoch’s empire is, as empires must, beginning to crumble. For a media Midas who, for so long, seemed infallible, a master of manipulation, the ends are unravelling with startling speed. The mistakes and misdemeanours were, of course, reprehensible. From Milly Dowler to 9/11, the News of the World’s alleged victims could not be more emotive. [...]
There is scant agreement as to the secret of a successful relationship. For Robert Mitchum it was simply “proximity”. For Oliver Reed, it was mostly about toast in bed. For Tom Cruise’s sleep-deprived wife Katie Holmes, it’s being able to pack her husband off to their “snoratorium”,Hollywood’s quaint euphemism for the spare room. Helena Bonham-Carter [...]
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Adam is a freelance feature writer, columnist and university lecturer
Tony Nicklinson is an intelligent, happily married, loving father-of-two. He also has locked-in-syndrome: an acute brain trapped in a defunct, mute body. Paralysed after a stroke in 2005, he is wholly reliant on others for his every need. He can only communicate by means of a computer that translates blinks and minute head movements [...]