Recession extends its unwelcome tendrils into many strange places. Now apparently even dwarfs have priced themselves out of the shrinking market.
The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, will no longer be hiring midget actors for this years pantomime
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Says executive producer Jonathan Kiley: "Dwarfs are very, very expensive". Instead, children, fitted with rubber masks, will be used.
Is anybody safe in the current climate?
A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of nationalism. All but dead twenty years ago, nationalism, which used to be the reserve of racist cranks, is now a rising force in euro politics. Its latest manifestation is the success of the True Finns party. What has caused this resurgence? I believe it is a reaction to the European Union project. Paradoxically, a scheme which originated after World War II to destroy European nationalism, has had precisely the opposite effect.
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