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Armando Iannucci
Now it is one of those ironies that on the few occasions you see the worlds of comedy and news collide – the quiet, pensive people tend to be the comedians, and the wise-cracking dispensers of bonhomie tend to be the journalists. Armando Iannucci has been laying into broadcast journalism and its ‘shameful failure’. He…
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Enough respect
The T-word is back. And about time. I have lost count of the times politicians have called on me to show respect for people’s religious faith. Respect a woman’s right to hide her face, respect the Church of England’s earnest debates over women and homosexuality. Respect religious holidays, festivals, rituals and dogmas. Absurd millennia-old diktats…