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Martin Kettle

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Writes for the Guardian on politics and other stuff. Tweets my own. Grandchildren my joy.
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The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again

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By Martin Kettle 
| Inkl
From Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled in more places than many can ever remember. In the UK, national morale feels all but shot. Politics commands little faith. Ditto the media. The idea that, as a country, we still have enough in common to carry us through – the idea embedded in Britain’s once potent Churchillian myth – feels increasingly threadbare.
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The Makropulos Affair review - Simon Rattle leads a sensational and thrilling semi-staging

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By Martin Kettle 
| Yahoo News UK
It is only two months since Jakub Hrůša’s rightly acclaimed and idiomatic conducting of Leoš Janáček’s penultimate opera at Covent Garden. Now, like the proverbial London buses, here comes the same piece again (though this time calling itself The Makropulos Affair rather than the Royal Opera’s The Makropulos Case), with Simon Rattle leading two concert performances at the Barbican Hall. Rattle’s first-night account was simply sensational.
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Andrew Clements, Guardian's classical music critic, dies aged 75

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By Imogen Tilden, Martin Kettle 
| MSN UK
Martin Kettle and Imogen Tilden The Guardian's long-serving and much admired classical music critic Andrew Clements died on Sunday aged 75 after a period of illness. Clements joined the Guardian arts team in August 1993, succeeding Edward Greenfield as the paper's chief music critic. His appointment was clinched by a personal recommendation to the editor from the late Alfred Brendel , who argued for Clements to get the job on account of his deep understanding of contemporary music.
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