Lea Ypi Darwin College The Spectator isn't he... the theatre critic?

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Cutting the Tightrope Arcola Theatre: arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/cutti… Good to be part of this

ADMA Productions in association with Offstage Theatre present
✂️ Cutting the Tightrope: the Divorce of Politics from Art
A collection of short plays from award-winning playwrights addressing the growing threat to artistic freedom.
📅 10-18 May
🎟 buff.ly/4cInKT4

Not even a 'phase-down' in sight 😠

'The World’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way'.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Today is the last show for the #JekyllAndHyde Schools Tour 2024 🎭

Congratulations to the cast and crew for such an incredible run that has reached 10,000 pupils in secondary schools across the country.

1/2 Hi HOME I survived the Israeli genocide in Gaza, 16 of my family were killed by Israel yesterday, 200+ in total. I translate for Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow and was going to read my poetry and tell our stories at the cancelled event. Owen Jones Samira Ahmed BBC North West BBC Newsnight

Shame on HOME, who is no longer celebrating Palestinian voices but cancelling them... homemcr.org/production/voi…

Two co-creators of our film Hope will be speaking at The Blue Festival People's Palace Projects tomorrow!

Member artist Michelle Hamilton & Director Kirsty Housley are joining Constanza Hola & Tana Sirois on a panel for Women & Mental Health.

bit.ly/BlueFestivalTi…

So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia:Iran, that so many white women didn’t pay enough attention to theocracy that white supremacy was building at home
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

What did James Macavoy literally say about the difference between state and private schools and the failure of government when it comes to exposing children to the arts in order to keep children on the assembly line.

Olof Dreijer on the Knife, Swedish nationalism and dancefloor activism: ‘Music gives us energy to overcome’ theguardian.com/music/2024/mar…

YES. Erasure is rife as a result of not addressing basic access issues. And Rachel Bagshaw is right about attitudinal blocks…. We need assurance that talking about disability & chronic illness will mean we are supported rather than seen as an even bigger ‘risk’

As lots of folk are sharing that clip of mercenary & Blackwater founder Erik Prince suggesting the US recolonise Africa, it feels like a good time to share this & remind ourselves of what a disgusting man he is: forbes.com/return-of-erik…

absolute perverse obsession with “working hard” in the UK, i don’t want to work hard i want to work normal and save my energy for playing with my daughter and going to fun places and building an uncontrollably sprawling recreation of my rapidly collapsing country in Duke Nukem 3D

really surprised no review of Young Vic's #nachtland have picked up on the line 'criticism of israel is just cover for hard-left anti-semitism', brazenly absolutist words from the play's moral hero w no rebuttal!

felt jarringly unnuanced in an otherwise nuanced play

Muslim group calls for Tory inquiry into party’s ‘structural Islamophobia’ theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Today (Tuesday 20th February) management ordered Queen Mary University of London security to break into the Queen Mary UCU office behind the Queens Building in order to remove posters expressing solidarity with Palestine.

James Felton Space Karen throwing dolls out of the pram

Now, how many of the so-called permanent feminists/journalists will write about this? Or is your sympathy, outrage, very selective?

UN experts: Palestinian women and girls in detention have been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault shar.es/agrG9E