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4 years ago

50 op-eds that told the story of 2020 (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Want to keep up with the best commentary in 2021? Frida Ghitis: This is the bombshell Trump’s team didn’t want revealed Frida Ghitis CNN January 3 The praise or condemnation President Donald Trump is drawing for the latest US actions in the Middle East in no way diminishes the power of the legal bombshell that just exploded in …

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4 years, 9 months ago

What Shakespeare can – and can’t – teach us about Covid-19 (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian newspaper. The very plot of “Romeo and Juliet” turns on an outbreak of this plague: returning from his failed mission to tell Romeo of Juliet’s survival, Friar John laments that: Going to find a …

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5 years ago

Harry and Meghan aren’t actually quitting the family business (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian newspaper. In a series of statements across its pages, the pair made clear that they intend to remain ‘“royal” patrons of charities, take part in some royal activities, and most importantly of all, continue …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Prince Andrew interview is a PR nightmare and a national joke (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian newspaper. He didn’t organize a birthday party for Maxwell at the royal residence of Sandringham, merely “a straightforward shooting weekend.” He didn’t attend a party to celebrate Epstein’s release, merely “a small dinner party, …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Olivia Colman is the reason to watch ‘The Crown’ season 3 (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian newspaper. And when Olivia Colman took over the role of Queen Elizabeth II from Claire Foy in the hit Netflix series “The Crown,” the re-casting was inevitably going to invite comparisons between them. To …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Boris Johnson owes the Queen an apology (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian newspaper. The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday – with a panel of 11 judges – that Johnson acted unlawfully when he suspended the British Parliament for five weeks at the end of …

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5 years, 5 months ago

Why ‘Love Island’ soared in the UK and sank in the US (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian newspaper. For most Brits, all we’ve needed to get through the latest hot, politically apocalyptic summer is a nightly dose of “Love Island,” the dating show which dominates the summer schedule for ITV, Britain’s …

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5 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson – blond, bouffant and boorish (Opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian newspaper. Darroch clearly felt he had no choice but to resign after Johnson wouldn’t commit to retaining him in the post after the unauthorized disclosure of the ambassador’s secret cables calling the Trump administration …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Saudi Arabia and Iran share a mutual disdain for women who speak up (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian. CNN — In the 40 years since the Iranian Revolution, Middle Eastern policy in every major nation has revolved around one binary question: Are we friends with Iran, or are we friends with Saudi …

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5 years, 10 months ago

For God’s sake, Oscars, let Britain’s ‘Favourite’–Olivia Colman– win (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian. You’ll have a good sense of why if you watch her nominated turn in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” as a miserable, miscarriage-riven Queen Anne, shifting from one intense relationship, with Rachel Weisz’s Sarah Churchill, …

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