How Brexit changed us: We have tangled up artists in the red tape the Tories pretend to dislike
For every industry, the break has involved one big cat’s cradle of statist bureaucracy.
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David Hare
David Hare is a playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. His work includes the plays Plenty (1978) and Skylight (1997), and screenplays for The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008).
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Despite its Brexit victory, the hate-addicted right rages on – but the left is silent
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