Ken Livingstone has long enlivened our national life, with his engaging television manner and his love of newts. He has run rings around successive leaders of the Labour Party. It is arguable that for a time he was the most effective adversary of Margaret Thatcher’s regime. He has shrugged off concerted efforts to smear him, […]
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Insurgency in theatre greens
The junior doctors’ dispute has induced a mood of apocalyptic gloom everywhere that the medical profession gathers. Moaning has always been part of medical culture, but none of us have ever seen anything remotely like this before. The entire profession is very apprehensive about the forthcoming strike, despite extraordinary levels of support for Dr Malawana […]