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BRASH and bold Val Pollard was a character fans loved to hate in Emmerdale.But before she ever portrayed her in the ITV soap, Charlie Hardwick showed ....
The turnaround triggered a bitter day of recriminations and fresh questions over the Prime Minister s authority yesterday, with Tory MPs telling him to urgently get a grip of the No 10 operation. ....
JASON GROVES: The scale of the Shropshire by-election defeat is dire for the Tories, even by the standards of governments suffering mid-term blues. ....
John le Carré at the premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in 2011 Credit: Sang Tan/AP One of John le Carré’s final public appearances came on his 88th birthday – October 19 2019 – when he was one of the hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the “Together for the Final Say” march calling for a second Brexit referendum. There’s a fine photograph of him on that day, with his walking stick and “Bollocks to Brexit” sticker, eyes stern under beetling brows worthy of Methuselah. This is not just the look of a man annoyed that he’s having to miss out on a birthday tea at Claridge’s: this is somebody full of righteous fury about the seemingly never-ending stupidity of those who have run the world over the nine decades of his existence. ....