Punch

Tuesday 14th October 2025

David Shields and the cast of Punch. Photo: Marc Brenner
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Text of the day: “But it was no good. Something was wrong. As I moved up the years, everything felt harder as the words on the page got bigger, like they’d run away from me off the page. And the struggling got stronger, as the telling-offs got louder, and I got angrier as— ” (Jacob in James Graham’s Punch)

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