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Farage doesn’t care about the poor
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The uncomfortable truth about progressive groupthink
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Trump v the New York Times
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Seeing artists as artists see them
This new exhibition isn’t just a fascinating insight into British portraiture over the last 100 years. It also opens up the story we tell ourselves about the art of the nation
David McAllister
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