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Rachel Reeves promises economy and living standards will improve

AOL 23 Mar 2025
Rachel Reeves has promised the UK’s economy and living standards will improve, as she pledged to cut running costs of government by 15% and civil service jobs by 10,000 ... Related ... why Rachel Reeves must be bold and ditch her Dickensian rulebook ... .
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Rachel Reeves to cut 10,000 civil service jobs in effort to lower government costs

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
Rachel Reeves has promised the UK’s economy and living standards will improve, as she pledged to cut running costs of government by 15% and civil service jobs by 10,000 ... Read more ... why Rachel Reeves must be bold and ditch her Dickensian rulebook ... .
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Idleness is rotting Britain. The welfare budget costs £3,000 BILLION. That's why it's our moral ...

The Daily Mail 22 Mar 2025
We could have done with Norman Tebbit in the Commons this week, if only for dramatic variety ... ‘We care about welfare claimants ... Behold Dickensian 21st-century Britain where the ragged ‘unemployable’ receive a few meagre groats to offset calamity ... .
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I have spent years travelling across Britain and trying thousands of restaurants. Forget Michelin, these ...

The Daily Mail 18 Mar 2025
Throw in a grilled mutton chop, almost Dickensian in its old-fashioned heft – cooked pink and delicately stained with turmeric – as well as service that’s sweet and warm as Manchester pudding, and you ...
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Chelsea land first blow in four-round battle with Manchester City

Yahoo Daily News 15 Mar 2025
By Laura Howard ... But as the teams arrived at Pride Park with the first piece of silverware of the season on the line, fans instead were settling in for a novel of Dickensian length ... “We did enough to win the game today ... .
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Adolescence Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Before

Huffington Post 15 Mar 2025
Adolescence looks seto be another hit for Netflix ... Faye Marsay in Game Of Thrones ... Since then, you might have also seen him in Dickensian as Bill Sikes, Colin Caffell in White House Farm, Henry VIII in Anne Boleyn and Thom Youngblood in Trigger Point ... .
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Billionaire businessman brands SNP Education secretary 'ridiculous' for rejecting plans to lower school leaving age ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2025
Jim McColl launched an attack on the Education Secretary after she spoke out against a Tory call for pupils to be allowed to finish their school studies at the age of 14, calling it ‘Dickensian’.
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Phantom Of The Opera fans are given 15 trigger warnings that it features bangs and ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2025
The production is running until September, with tickets starting at £25 ... The Phantom of the Opera ... Advertisement ... 'This is beyond parody ... ... Bromley Little Theatre in south-east London warned audiences the production contained 'Dickensian slurs' ... .
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JIM MCCOLL: Allowing children to leave school at 14 isn't writing them off...it's giving them ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2025
Among the early critics was Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth who condemned it as ‘Dickensian’ – a ridiculous and indeed stupid assertion ... He wants to allow children to go to college or get an apprenticeship to tackle the underlying problem ... .
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My Mother From Another World

The American Spectator 10 Mar 2025
My mother died last week at the age of 92. For the rest of my life, every Ash Wednesday will evoke her memory ... I remember Luis Augusto’s wife, my grandmother Carmen, as a Dickensian grande dame a la Miss Havisham ... I wrote about him in an article here ... .
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A spoof universally acknowledged: comic Rosalie Minnitt on her bonnet-crazed Jane Austen parody

The Observer 07 Mar 2025
Every now and then a comedy concept comes along that seems so obvious, you can’t believe no one has done it before ... Lady Clementine’s genesis took place under lockdown ... “I want her to go to the city, too, and for that to have a Dickensian energy ... Share.
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JONATHAN BROCKLEBANK: Children aren't being sent up chimneys...they're being offered a much-needed hand up the ...

The Daily Mail 06 Mar 2025
Quite right, we conclude ... Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth wasted no time in describing the idea as ‘Dickensian’ ... Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth was quick to denounce Tory proposals to allow children to leave school at 14 as 'Dickensian' ... Glasgow. .
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The 10 Most Remarkable Oscar Best Picture Winners Of The 21st Century

Vogue 06 Mar 2025
In one sense, as a universal, almost Dickensian rags to riches tale, it is classic Oscar fodder – but, with its vitality, scrappiness and global outlook it also gave us a glimpse of the future of this category.12 Years a Slave (2013) ... .
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If you only read one book this year … make it this one!

The Observer 06 Mar 2025
So we asked authors, booksellers and critics to choose the book they think you should read this year – even if you only read one ... Read more ... Her latest is a propulsive work of ecofiction that spans Dickensian London and contemporary Kurdistan ... Share ... .
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Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in the 1980s

The Observer 04 Mar 2025
the publisher Newsfield, home of the wildly popular games mags Crash and Zzap!64 ... But I loved it.” ... ‘It really was Dickensian’ … Zzap!64 magazine. Photograph ... “Video game publishing was always low rent, but in those early days it really was Dickensian.”.
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