Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

Why Succession is the anti-Downton

On loving hating the Roys

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David Aaronovitch
May 26, 2023
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Four weddings but not yet a funeral

At the end of 1995 the late Martin Amis wrote about how he had visited the cinema several weeks earlier with his friend, Salman Rushdie. The film had been Four Weddings and a Funeral which he and Rushdie both hated, but which the rest of the audience loved. “In…

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