Nearly 300 years ago, the first Black performer to play Juliet was Rachael Baptiste, an Irishwoman also hugely successful as a singer.
She performed in Lancashire in the mid-1700s.

I got help from PHP in 2018 when there was none available anywhere else.

I was suffering psychologically after an incident at work.

Without them I might have died.

Please support PHP. NHS England shut them down to new referrals with no replacement yet commissioned.

I’ve said it before on here, and I’m gonna say it again: it doesn’t matter whether you believe in climate change, only that the insurance industry does

Are you a medical professional in a mental health crisis caused by the overwhelming stress you're exposed to at work? Well don't expect any help now you're in desperate need of it. You had the round of applause 4 yrs ago.

Dev Patel delivers all guns* blazing in Monkey Man, an absolutely pounding action thriller which would be an impressive achievement as either director or star, but as both is just bloody… wow.

*And knives and AXES.

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Ian Hislop on top form Have I Got News For You ⏬️

Any clip of that Antony pass is going straight into my top ten erotic movies of all time. #CHEMUN

The Chelsea/United game is reminding me of a particularly tightly fought early 90s contest in break time at Wadebridge comprehensive school. #jumpersforgoalposts

I said soon after Fred died that I refused to let him be the reason my life was ruined, that it would be a disservice to him if that was his contribution.

It felt like an act of defiance, even if it wasn’t one I had the strength to make.

Here Nick Cave sums it up beautifully

Been busy chipping away at the edit for new film BOYS LIKE YOU, and we now have PICTURE LOCK!

Big thanks to my ridiculously talented (and patient) editor Ben Williams-Butt!

On to the sound edit with Paradigm Post and the score with Jim Cornick and Matt Loveridge 🤩

BOYS…

Very happy to have exec produced this, great work from all involved.

A first look at MancHouse Productions “Boys Like You” directed by Paul Holbrook

If you get #longcovid not only do you get very ill with multiple symptoms, but

1. You get no treatment
2. You get gaslit
3. You get no financial support
4. You get trolled online
5. You get labelled a hypochondriac
6. And now you get blamed for holding the economy back!!

Revisited Us, a funnier, more frightening film than I remembered. Lupita Nyong'o is brilliant and the whole thing, if you’ll excuse the highbrow critical term, gave me the screaming heebie-jeebies.

Late to BBC afterlife sit-com Ghosts, which is extremely funny, rather touching and brilliantly performed. Laurence Rickard is outstanding.

This is so moving. And so unusual to hear on a late night show!

One in five people and one in four children are living in absolute poverty in the UK.

This should the number one domestic priority right now that all politicians must talk about, not the colours on a football shirt. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-686253…