Britain's National Theatre is on a roll. This week it announced that from March it will have four productions running in the West End. Four years ago, Robert Butler spent a month at this vibrant institution and saw it getting bigger, busier and happier
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Dubai has just unveiled the world's largest skyscraper, like a hypodermic needle against the desert sky. In a feature last year J.M. Ledgard asked, "what is the point of the Burj Dubai? And does it even have a good view?" ...
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After spending half a century in an enclosed order, the former abbess of Stanbrook has just taken a year out at art school in East London. “There is a danger that enclosed life can become automatic, a bit precious,” she explains. Maggie Fergusson meets her ...
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