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Having been in control, they find that they have lost control and have unleashed forces out of their control, like macbeth, kingly and people like that. So when ted heath did it in 197a, people like that. So when ted heath did it in 1974, when he had quite a big majority, the election went wholly against what everyone assumed would happen, and the same in terms of the campaign has happened now. I am not saying the result will be the same, when ted heath lost, but all the assumptions that your pa...

Ever since the publication in 1991 of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, a family history documenting three generations of 20th-century women, there has been a stream of books about the complex tragedy of modern China. Like Macbeth, we may feel that we have now supp’d so full of its horrors that nothing about it can horrify us any longer. But Tania Branigan, a Guardian journalist of partially Chinese descent who spent seven years reporting on the country, has found new stories, tackling the challenge ...

From the blog of David Stromberg at The Times of Israel

In this near-perfect world of secrets, lies and cartel bosses, Laura Linney and Jason Bateman have been compelling to the Byrdes’ bitter end – but it’s Ruth who’s the show’s real hero