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Simon Matthews on the Carol Reed movie that Roman Polanski, Gore Vidal and Sam Peckinpah thought was better even than The Third Man.
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Simon Matthews on the Carol Reed movie that Roman Polanski, Gore Vidal and Sam Peckinpah thought was better even than The Third Man.
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"For Britain to settle the issue of its place in Europe, one side of the Conservative Party must triumph over the other"
In the second 'Reasons to be leaving', our @samkarlharrison.bsky.social made the mistake of playing at futurology👇
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"Kids are dying on the streets but never mind I’m doing a 'mince -a – long' tonight. You absolute chancer"
The latest post in Lion & Unicorn's occasional series documenting the standard of debate on X👇
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"It is the imagery of America that has shaped British popular culture.
Indeed, the dream of Stateside success has been a major motivating force. No rock ‘n’ roll band ever fantasized about breaking Austria"
Meanwhile @alwynturner.bsky.social wrote about pop👇
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Our three founder writers took turns making a case for Leave:
"There has been no greater achievement of Remain and its predecessors than the depiction of Leave-inclined people as strange or aberrant.
The economics of Leave are the economics of normality"
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American anti-alcohol campaigner Carrie Nation died 115 years ago today.
Here's the story of her visit to Britain, where she was not well received. "London is a dreadful place," she said; "the worst city in the world."
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TRIGGER WARNING: As the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote draws closer, we'll be re-upping some Lion & Unicorn posts from and about the referendum.
Here's a selection of our #EUref writing👇
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"There isn’t much of a pro-European faction any more, just a managerial class that believes that, in politics as in golf, one has to play the ball where it lies"
Posted #OTD in 2016, our @alwynturner.bsky.social's prediction for the EU referendum result👇
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And Pinter!
SIMON MATTHEWS on James Mason as an IRA gunman in Carol’s Reed’s classic movie.
