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• A play set during the Troubles brings home the monstrosity of a few English politicians| Rowan Moore

  25-03-2023 18:30
  
  The Windsor framework offers hope for Northern Ireland, yet some, such as Boris Johnson, played with peace and voted against itIt was possible to hope, last Wednesday afternoon, that the toxic idiocy of British politics might recede a little. Even as Boris Johnson spaffed truth and common sense up the wall, in his seemingly vain effort to redeem his reputation, a slow defeated sigh, as of air leaving a leaking balloon, came from the rightwingers’ rebellion against the Windsor framework, th
  
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• From prison to refuge: fight to turn Oscar Wilde’s Reading gaol into arts hub

  25-03-2023 13:44
  
  Campaigners hope bid to develop site of prison where famous poem was composed may finally succeedThe site of Reading’s former prison has a highly desirable location in the town’s centre and a celebrated history, not least as the setting of Oscar Wilde’s most famous poem, the Ballad of Reading Gaol.But almost a decade after HMP Reading was closed, the historic building where Wilde was incarcerated for homosexual acts remains locked and inaccessible, while its owners, the Ministr
  
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