Page 43 - Greg Doran News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

4 May 2021 • 12:02am Pro-Union counter demonstrators gather in Glasgow in opposition to a Scottish independence supporters rally Credit:  Jeff J Mitchell/ Getty Images Europe SIR – According to government figures, in the current financial year Scotland will be spending £129 per person for every £100 spent in England. The Barnett formula will result in about £38 billion going from English taxpayers to the Scottish government. It is difficult to see how promises of billions of pounds of investment to provide a faster rail link from Glasgow to London (report, May 2) will sway Scottish...

It’s not the immediate sense of life spinning out in front of you in the way it might if you were involved in a car crash, but it’s a slow-burn realisation. One that allows for some distance between now and the Big Event – an objective distance for philosophising. I’m not so much an existentialist as an aspirant agnostic. I would love the colour involved in being an absurdist (John Vlismas once commented that absurdism is like atheism with clowns!). But it’s just that I can’t claim to know enough either way to make any strong claims for meaning in the universe that hold me to one ...

Louis Armstrong starred in a very unusual production of A Midsummer Night's Dream Credit: Haywood Magee How heartening to see – shock! - a company of actors and musicians onstage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford again. Performing Shakespeare? It ain’t necessarily so. On Saturday, for less than an hour, Swingin’ the Dream revisited a fascinating, little-known chapter of artistic fusion, when the Bard collided with the Jazz Age. In December 1939, Broadway briefly saw an epic version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream featuring an “integrated” company of more than 100. Louis A...

3 months old This article is more than 3 months old The Bard, like us, lived through a period of trauma. One expert now believes it coloured his later plays Rhys Ifans as the Fool and Glenda Jackson as King Lear in a 2016 production. For centuries, King Lear was staged with a happy ending. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Observer Rhys Ifans as the Fool and Glenda Jackson as King Lear in a 2016 production. For centuries, King Lear was staged with a happy ending. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Observer Sun 13 Dec 2020 03.45 EST The ravages of the plague are the true source of the dark sorrow d...