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One Man in His Time review: Gently tightening our grip on Shakespeare We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size ★★★½ Playhouse, March 11 If John Bell is anything to go by, basking in the words of William Shakespeare for 65 years is good for the soul. Exuding a calm generosity of spirit, he spent an hour conveying his singular love for this greatest of writers, artists and perhaps minds. Bell was blessed with ...

Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 10.34 EST Trevor Peacock, the actor and songwriter, who has died aged 89 after suffering from dementia, was best known and much loved for his endearing performance as a bumbling parish councillor, Jim Trott, in The Vicar of Dibley (1994-2007), one of a delightful gallery of village worthies circling, and answering to, Dawn French’s enthusiastic parish priest. Jim’s particular dimness was manifest in an acute inability to say what he meant, prefacing a “Yes...

Commentary: What Hamlet has to say about Trumps impeachment trial Charles McNulty © (Manuel Harlan/ Carol Rosegg) Two Hamlets: Andrew Scott, left, in London in 2017, and Oscar Isaac in New York City in 2017. (Manuel Harlan/ Carol Rosegg) Samuel Johnson once observed that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” A rebellion turns out to work equally well for sharpening one’s understanding of a dramatic classic. Rereadin...

In Search of Precedent in Unprecedented Times Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons The first essay I wrote in Cambridge was on the Black Death. As I trawled through the fourteenth-century chroniclers, suffering from a dreadful bout of Freshers’ Flu, I couldn’t help but find descriptions of my symptoms wherever I looked.  ‘For several days they spend most of each day asleep, weighed down by drowsiness’, wrote the anonymous author of a German treatise on the plague. That certainly rang true....

Some of these lawyers, at one time, had the respect of their peers but have done great harm to their reputations by engaging in conduct that is demeaning to lawyers and may be unethical.

The Plum Pudding Riots: What happened the last time Christmas was cancelled in Kent Published: 06:00, 19 December 2020 With rising Covid cases leaving this years festive celebrations hanging in the balance, we take a look at what happened in Kent the last time Christmas was cancelled.... The Mayor of Canterbury stood in the freezing cold in front of one of the largest crowds he’d ever seen. The Thomas Ingoldsby Wetherspoon pub in Canterbury has been forced to stay shut this Christmas - wh...