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THIS had all the makings of being a vintage year for the arts in Oxfordshire. Impressive programmes of plays, shows, gigs and concerts, visits by international stars, the return of popular events and even a clutch of new festivals, was set to make 2020 a year to remember. While that proved true, it was for all the wrong reasons. The arts sector was among the first to be hit by the coronavirus pandemic and the hardest hit. Many venues which closed their doors in March are still closed and ...

Instead its a variety show so .. welcome to the song and dance, fun-filled Festive Follies. Covid put paid to many sesonal events across the UK but then, fortunately, we in the cultured Liverpool City Region found ourselves in Tier 2 territory. The show could go on even without the luxury of intense pre-production work and the obvious restraints of health and safety guidelines. Scene from Selection Box at Royal Court, Liverpool. Picture: Jason Roberts So all those who are back on the bo...

Home for the Holidays on SiriusXM, Pandora and Stitcher Pop-up channels, podcasts, sports retrospectives, and the best-of live music concerts set the stage for the holidays New Years Eve special programming includes multiple live channels featuring musical guests, and encores of exclusive subscriber concerts by Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, The Chainsmokers and Billie Eilish SiriusXM app to feature exclusive video of special interviews, in-studio performances, and curated collections for the New Yea...

Federal judicial roles, as well going forward. as evidence by the people already in that room where the presidents holding what in effect is a celebration. youve got lindsey graham here, mitch mcconnell, the vice president, and many other members of the presidents team. they really do believe that this is what sells with the presidents base. as we evhave heard him say on repeated occasions, he said if this goes forward, if the democrats are to knock me out of the white house, however they try to...

He said is an earthquake at the election box. thats your reality check. >> well played, john. we always love the musical references. >> look, people like free bird, though. lets stipulate, free bird is a song people like to hear. this mornings in cnns special series americas infrastructure is literally crumbling before our eyes. today we took a look at roads and bridges desperately in need of help with todays installment. >> this is an issue where youve got lawmakers on both sides of the aisle...

If she tries to impeach. im also serious about this. lets take your rhetoric seriously.t how can you live in a country with the president who is like hitler who colludes with vladimir putin to destroy our democracy? >> heres myut answer. my answer to that is were not going to be able to remove him through impeachment. the only way to remove donald trump is to beat him at thein election box. so what i have said and others have said, democrats should investigate clear problems in his administratio...

>> we are not going to remove him through impeachment. the only way to remove donald trump is to beat him at the election box, democrats should investigate whether there is evidence of problems in his administration so make it harder for them to get reelected in 2020. if they tried to impeach him we have republicans coming on board to remove him. it is a waste of time, a waste of political capital and democrats losing their majority. heather: democrats lining up to get on the house judiciary com...

Pelosi is very smart politically and knows it will hurt democrats if she tries to impeach. im also serious about this. lets take your rhetoric seriously. how can you live in a country with the president who is like hitler who colludes with vladimir putin to destroy our democracy? >> heres my answer. my answer to that is were not going to be able to remove him through impeachment. the only way to remove donald trump is to beat him at the election box. so what i have said and others have said, dem...

Comes to judicial nominees. is that creating bipartisanship here or dividing his own party? hes already convinced lindsey graham, but when it comes to everybody else, mcconnell, how is that affecting it? >> its not being well received by leadership in the republican par party. jeff flake is not prioritizing the concerns of those closest to trump and who want to carry out the presidents bidding. i think senator flake wants to make it clear that he left the senate with the issue and the concerns o...

And his ee lite lead backers want. that is the problem facing the american people on both sides of the aisle. you have democrats and republicans that believe that they can control the process and not allow the people through the election box to actually tell them who they want to represent them and their interests. >> of course, the question comes, how much of the loss comes down to the candidate and the plausibility that they can win statewide? lets look at alabama here. the first big win for s...