ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

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Christopher Pincher believes the silliness of a film series that laughed at the British is much needed now

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This reboot of the popular Play For Today series of TV plays from the 1970s begins with a story starring Anita Dobson, Nigel Havers, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Nina Wadia. Free spirit Cynthia (Dobson) is r