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Donald Clarke

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ap170007266110 Daniel Day-Lewis as President Obama

Barack plays DDL playing Barack in a mildly mirthsome video for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Glenda-Jackson-Wallpaper-004 Glenda Jackson lays into Mrs Thatcher

“A woman? Not on my terms,” the veteran actor and MP declares in the House of Commons.

Margaret Thatcher On inhabiting Mrs Thatcher’s Britain

No Prime Minister managed to divide the British nation as terrifyingly neatly as did the late Margaret Thatcher.

Marriage guidance … Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood backs gay marriage

The granite-hewn actor and director, a supposed conservative, once again confounds pundits by calling for marriage equality in the US.

Emma Campbell addresses abortion in Northern Ireland

To the Copper House Gallery on Synge Street for the launch of When they put their Hands Out Like Scales, Emma Campbell’s fine short film on the abortion journey in Northern Ireland. It’s a very canny piece of work. The …

Richard Nixon didn’t shave

You know what bugs me about American elections? Huh? Huh? Well, not much really. Obviously, the whole thing is a farce. It is so difficult to effect real change that it doesn’t much matter who wins. Think about it. Obama …

Parsing the Dark Knight shootings.

Following the ghastly events in Denver on Friday morning, we have, thank goodness, heard little from the prescriptive mob that so often seeks to blame popular culture for the decline of western society. A few articles have asked whether Christopher …

A word from The Muppets.

There is only a week to go before the release of the much-anticipated Muppets film. It offers everything you could possibly ask for from a movie starring 30-year-old felt puppets. Walk don’t run and all that malarkey. Tara Brady of …