Now Morley Sticks Knife Into Portillo the 'Amateur' Critic

Evening Standard - London › July 14, 2004

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SHERIDAN "SLASHER" Morley has done it again. The veteran theatre critic uses the pages of The Stage newspaper to hurl further brickbats at his fellow drama critics.

"Amateurs" is how he describes Toby Young of The Spectator and Michael Portillo MP, who now pens the theatre notices for the New Statesman. Their chief sin, perhaps, is that they were both appointed in Morley's place.

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Now Morley Sticks Knife Into Portillo the 'Amateur' Critic

Morley laments that other critics have become " acade...

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