There’s nothing confusing about a black actress playing Hermione Granger
A news producer rang up this morning, asking me to talk about ‘colour-blind casting’. Noma Dumezweni has just been cast as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the stage sequel to JK...
View ArticleThere’s nothing patriotic about William Blake’s Jerusalem
In this week’s diary, Tristram Hunt puts his money behind Jerusalem as a new English National Anthem. ‘God Save the Queen’ isn’t going anywhere as the United Kingdom’s theme, but there’s room for a...
View ArticleIs the West ever going to stand up to Vladimir Putin?
If you walk down Holland Park Avenue, down the hill to Shepherd’s Bush, you’ll come across a statue wreathed with peonies, lit by a single candle. Two years ago, in February 2014, the flowers...
View ArticleForget the fighting. We’re entering a period of unparalleled opportunity for...
Auf wiedersehen, Boris. He’ll be back, like a blond, bloated Voldemort inhabiting another life form – Top Gear host? Archbishop of York? Or endless BBC camping tours of Britain on a bike, the Portillo...
View ArticleFive phrases to ban from the Tory leadership race
The race is on to get out of the bottom, as the Spice Girls never quite sang about Liam Fox. And isn’t it depressing? I don’t just mean the Conservative leadership contest itself – unlike the Labour...
View ArticleFrance’s burkini ban was an own goal for secularism
I’ve always hated the beach. The water? Great. The sunshine? Terrible. It starts with the hot trek across the sands to find a square of free ground – loaded up with factor 60, several books, a comedy...
View ArticleTheresa May really is acting like a Tudor monarch over Brexit
Over the weekend, it emerged that Theresa May likes to compare herself to Elizabeth I (although as I argue in my Telegraph column today, she’s been behaving more like the young Queen Victoria lately)....
View ArticleDonald Trump’s sinister threat to jail Hillary should worry us all
In the autumn of 2008, a gaggle of American conservatives gathered for a conference at that most godless of progressive institutions, Yale University. The mood was sombre: four days beforehand,...
View ArticleEmma Rice was never as radical as she thought she was
Towards the end of Emma Rice’s recent production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the mechanicals decides to give us a piece of her mind. ‘It’s a visual concept!’ screams Nandi Bhebhe’s Starveling...
View ArticleSorry, Jeremy, but comparing Theresa May to Henry VIII is depressingly ignorant
Another day, another Tudor throwback. This time, Jeremy Corbyn has accused Theresa May of acting like Henry VIII by avoiding… See the full story of Sorry, Jeremy, but comparing Theresa May to Henry...
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