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J.D. Vance’s Conversion

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By James Butler Verified
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Almost no politician​ writes his own books, and few people actually read them. J.D. Vance is different. Trump’s vice president was a writer before he was a politician, and brought a writer’s vices with him: a titanic but fragile ego, limitless self-interest and thirst for adulation, an unsleeping vigilance for any slight. Hillbilly Elegy, Vance’s first book, published in 2016, described his childhood poverty and rise out of it, and made him the liberal media’s favourite hick-whisperer.
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I didn't enjoy this play - yet I was still gripped until the end

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The irony of watching a show about climate change on a sweltering night in the middle of a heatwave wasn't lost on me as we took our seats in the Minerva Theatre for Atlantis. A collaboration with Welsh producing theatre Theatr Clwyd, Emily White's play is more than its subject matter: it is about family, faith, and how stories shape how we live.
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James Butler | Foul Means

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Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP to stand again for his seat in Clacton in a by-election, a move intended to stymie the ongoing parliamentary investigation into a £5 million donation he received from Christopher Harborne, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur based in Thailand. Farage’s announcement yesterday afternoon, a livestreamed litany of grievances, was also an attempt to regain the political initiative.
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