I have seen the future, and It’s 3d opera: tony hall’s dIary

17 july 2010 www.spectator.co.uk

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Mandy’s Fairy tales Labour’s spinners are rewriting their party’s history. Trevor Kavanagh and Patrick Wintour separate fact from fiction

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plus: rod liddle on Mawkish geordies, Celia haddon on brainy oCtopuses, taki Falls For iain dunCan sMith, andrew laMbirth on ‘rude britannia’