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Party Lines
Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes
Daisy Waugh

Goal-hangers and Glory-hunters
‘The banking-football XI would certainly play an unusual formation: no defenders but 11 strikers’
E.T. Smith

Party Lines
Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes
Daisy Waugh

Party Lines
Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes
Daisy Waugh

To See or Not to See

Some plays just don't stand the test of time: Twelfth Night at the Wyndham Theatre; Loot at the Tricycle Theatre

Minette Marrin

Welcome to Miami

‘Having climbed halfway up a lamppost, a homeless guy in a pink skirt and a low-cut white blouse starts to hump it’

Tibor Fischer

La Commedia è Finita
There's not much to laugh at these days - especially if you're working class
Peter Whittle

Party Lines
Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes
Daisy Waugh

Back to the Feelgood Sitcom
The comedy of self-recognition invites us to laugh gently at ourselves, rather than despise others
Simon Hoggart

At My Wit’s End
"The wittiest writer alive" finds it hard to live up to his title
Joseph Epstein

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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