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Londoner’s Diary: Sadiq Khan and Nadine Dorries clash over arts cuts in capital

Today’s Diary: Khan and Dorries create drama at the National Theatre / Dame Zandra Rhodes criminal record keeps her grounded / Ideas for empty Buckingham Palace / Documentary director hits back at Gove

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Londoner’s Diary: Russian theatre troupe’s despot play is ‘so relevant’

A Russian-speaking London theatre company is using their work to speak out against the invasion of Ukraine.

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Londoner’s Diary: Theatres told not to work with Russian state-backed counterparts for a year

BRITISH theatre companies have been warned that collaborating with Russian state-backed partners is not “appropriate” for at least a year following the invasion of Ukraine.

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Londoner’s Diary: Russian restaurants serve up plea for peace

LONDON’S top Russian restaurants have hit out at the war in Ukraine and promised to donate takings to appeals.

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Londoner’s Diary: Palin and Bragg oppose Heath tower plan

Hampstead block row / J K Rowling promo return / Michael Caine’s shades / Itching for Hay parties / Youth Theatre bash / Pandemic not over, warns MP

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Londoner’s Diary: Ian McEwan in Bloomsbury tree showdown

NOVELIST Ian McEwan is in an unexpected face-off with an august international charity over a pair of troublesome London plane trees in swish Bloomsbury.

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Londoner’s Diary: British Museum defends move into digital art market

The British Museum dips a toe into NFTs / PinkPantheress on how she broke the US / Sadie Frost relives carefree youth / Dave Benett puts on a party

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Londoner’s Diary: ‘Theatre society needed to take lead during Covid’

IT’S daggers drawn in the West End as a leading producer Michael Rose takes aim at the august Society of London Theatre, which he says was weak during the pandemic.

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Londoner’s Diary: Ben Okri’s fury at claims his novel was ghostwritten

NOVELIST Ben Okri tells us he is “really furious” about a false claim from a ghostwriting agency that they had written parts of his Booker prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

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Londoner’s Diary: Carrie is steeped in the Westminster bubble, says friend of biographer

LORD Ashcroft is “a bit baffled” by criticism of his forthcoming biography of Carrie Johnson, The Londoner understands.

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Londoner’s Diary: Fashion’s more diverse than it was — but I still have to change to fit in

DESIGNER and artist Osman Yousefzada says despite the progress the fashion industry has made on diversity, “I still code-switch” — a term for using a different way of speaking in different places.

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Londoner’s Diary: Gift to Coleridge Trust in drive to save poet’s grave

THE FIGHT to save poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Highgate grave from “benign neglect” has entered a new phase, The Londoner has learnt, following a £20,000 donation to the trust concerned.

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Londoner’s Diary: Tate on the defence in volunteer guide row

THE TATE has defended itself after it was accused of “relying on unpaid labour to deliver its queer history programme”.

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Londoner’s Diary: Europe is no longer an open book for publishers

LONDON’s smaller presses are struggling to get books into Europe due to rule changes in the wake of Brexit.

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Londoner’s Diary: Battle lines drawn in war of political broadcasters

POLITICAL programme wars are back. Sophy Ridge has added a Wednesday evening show to her repertoire — the same day Robert Peston broadcasts his show on ITV. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” a source at the Peston show told The Londoner.

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Londoner’s Diary: Farewell to Barry Cryer, master of quickfire gags

THE LONDONER is very sad to learn of the death of Barry Cryer, announced this morning. He was a frequent presence in these pages.

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Londoner’s Diary: Will Self hits back in ongoing feud with Mark Francois

WILL SELF has returned fire in his ongoing feud with Mark Francois, the Tory politician who he clashed with in a stare-off on BBC show Politics Live.

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Londoner’s Diary: Newsnight producer who netted Andrew scoop writing book

MORE bad news for Prince Andrew. If the loss of his titles and patronages ahead of a civil case in the US wasn’t bad enough, the woman behind the interview which set the ball rolling on his current woes is writing a book.

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Londoner’s Diary: Theatres struggling as Omicron wreaks havoc

LONDON’S theatres are still “hanging on by a thread” following a difficult Christmas period, The Londoner hears, as the National Theatre revealed its profits dropped by £50 million last year.

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