Several lines from Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, currently playing at the Young Vic with Jane Horrocks (left), have a timely resonance.
For all her sharp-shooting, Annie Oakley emerges as a low impact woman: no diamonds, no pearls, no mansion, no yacht, no silver and no gold. Even wiser:
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still, I'd like to express my thanks.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night
The US is leaving the Paris Agreement – what happens next?
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The world’s largest economy and second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases
will withdraw from the global climate pact, disrupting efforts to tackle
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