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Thursday, 23 February 2017

The Stage: How the decline of criticism led to the rise of Trump

[written for The Stage: 19/01/17]


I wrote an apparently silly (but actually quite sensible) thing for The Stage in the vain hope it might cheer me up about the impending collapse of the entire world.

It didn’t, particularly.

Posted by Andrew Haydon at 11:14
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