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Lloyd Evans

Lloyd Evans is The Spectator's sketch-writer and theatre critic, and a playwright who has contributed to the magazine since the 1980s.

Oct 11, 2026

19:30
And last, but by no means least, here's Lloyd Evans.
19:33
The far right are on the march, so I decided to take a look.
19:37
I travelled to a market town in deepest England and joined a rally organised by Britain First.
19:44
The police had been alerted and there were white vans parked outside the train station with clusters of burly officers ready to waddle into action.
19:52
The town square was occupied by two demonstrations separated by flimsy steel barriers and a fluttering line of blue and white police ribbon.
20:01
The Britain First supporters, with their union flags hoisted high, had assembled in a churchyard beneath an Anglo-Saxon tower.
20:08
Beyond the barrier, a crowd of a hundred left-wingers taunted them through a loud hailer.
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24:12
No borders, no nations,
19:54
And last, but by no means least, here's Lloyd Evans.
19:57
The far right are on the march, so I decided to take a look.
20:01
I travelled to a market town in deepest England and joined a rally organised by Britain First.
20:07
The police had been alerted and there were white vans parked outside the train station with clusters of burly officers ready to waddle into action.
20:16
The town square was occupied by two demonstrations separated by flimsy steel barriers and a fluttering line of blue and white police ribbon.
20:25
The Britain First supporters, with their union flags hoisted high, had assembled in a churchyard beneath an Anglo-Saxon tower.
20:32
Beyond the barrier, a crowd of a hundred left-wingers taunted them through a loud hailer.
25:21
That was Peter Parker, and finally Lloyd Evans.
25:25
edward gibbon was troubled by a swelling in his lower abdomen i have the same condition wow that's huge said my g p as he gazed at the affected area huge i said trying to sound nonchalant i wouldn't know it's the only one i've ever seen my cyst has been expanding steadily for decades and i was told a few years ago that its intentions were peaceful my new g p was trying to scare me obviously i don't blame him it's dull work staring at sick bodies all day and he was trying to amuse himself with a spot of scaremongering you'll need a scan within two weeks he added is
25:59
it cancerous perhaps
26:00
i asked he nodded with a sly grin i got the usual frosty welcome at my local hospital the n h s believes in fairness and they treat everyone with equal contempt i approached an asian woman seated behind a sheet of glass stab proof no doubt she was glancing at some important papers is the imaging centre here i asked to catch her attention she tilted her head towards a long corridor costa keep going straight she said I set off down the corridor and passed two extra-wide nurses in blue uniforms who were advancing at the pace of elephants fording a lake.
26:32
One held a carton of hot chocolate in her hand.
26:35
The other was nibbling at an oat bar.
26:37
Crumbs fell around her as she waddled.
26:40
I turned a corner and found half a dozen NHS workers queuing outside Costa to collect their elevenses.

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