Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Bizarre

November 8, 2010 14:34
1 min read

This 'gala celebration' of Mikhail Gorbachev's 80th birthday, to take place in March at the Royal Albert Hall, has possibly the most surreal line up on a London stage one could imagine:

Gerhard Schroder, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hugh Grant.

Bizarre doesn't even come close.

Editor’s picks

01

Royal Academy artwork suggests Israeli pilots are morally inferior to Hamas

Artwork by Michael Sandle in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition: 'Apropos Terror: Pilot doesn’t hear the screams of the women and children he is massacring with impunity'
02

The opera singer who won’t be silenced on Israel

Chai note: Ilona Domnich (Photo: Omer Barr)
03

Exclusive: Top eye surgeon reposted tweets about ‘cult Zions’ controlling the BBC

Michel Michaelides is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. (Photo: London Medical)
04

From Berlin to Finchleystrasse: the Jews who redefined the Finchley Road

Bohemian haunt: Cosmo, a meeting place for intellectuals and eccentrics from 1933 to 1998 (Photo: Marion Manheimer)
05

Marseille 1940 by Uwe Wittstock: one hack’s mission to save Jewish intelligentsia from the Nazis

Rescued: (clockwise from top) Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Hannah Arendt, a Jacques Lipchitz sculpture, Jacques Lipchitz, Walter Benjamin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Marc Chagall and journalist Varian Gray

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