'Rather than leaving it to vandals to score points, isn’t it better to embrace Churchill as a figure of Shakespearean richness, tilting between genius and fallibility, his career immense, every detail mattering, not everything salutary?' telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…

the absolute state of UK defence theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

The glory of an English country garden

This was frank and funny as you’d expect bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

It would be great if Outernet London enabled an immersive replay of this week’s auroras on Charing Cross Rd for everyone who missed them or just wishes they happened every night.

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50 years on from Howard Brenton’s The Churchill Play, why it’s time we brought some radicalism back to representations of Churchill on stage and screen. telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…

I want an eco Eurovision- where everyone plays acoustic in fields and tents in their respective countries and Zooms it all in. None of this ecocidal crap is required in the digital age - and we might get better songs.

great piece by Dzifa Afi Benson; read and share telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…

This should be pedestrianised, like Florence. Would be phenomenal

It already sounds like a best-seller

Mary, Mary, quite contrary: Enervating and exhilarating, this is the oddest, most hypnotic show in town by an avant-garde mile. Ends tomorrow. telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…

Feels like I was listening a concert, where every instrument was playing a feeling, a story, a life lesson.Humor, wisdom, bravery,reality check, hope…It has it all.
Douglas Murray ,a one-man-orchestra of words - speech for “Hamilton Award” Manhattan Institute .

🎥Via Dave Rubin

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The tipping point. Now what?

Isabelle Huppert and Bob Wilson take a bow at the end of the Barbican Centre premiere of Mary Said What She Said

Summer returns

It’s back

A palpable hit, in Nottingham telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…