Farrukh As is so often the case, those calling out racism are censured; those being racist walk away scot fee. A tale as old as time ☹️

Just read this masterpiece. Wow. Not a book I thought would be my cup of tea and a book usually I would avoid but Backlisted podcast did an episode on it so thought I would check it out. And. Wow. Highly recommend it. Backlisted Podcast

Here's my The New Statesman essay on the feminist critic + film-maker Laura Mulvey, subject of a BFI season, and the evolution + afterlife of her essay on the "male gaze", "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", which appeared 50 years ago in Screen Journal newstatesman.com/culture/film/2…

It’s astonishing that a man who was director of communications for a political party & who helped set up a right wing propaganda TV channel should have ever been placed on the board of a supposedly impartial & independent broadcasting service. theguardian.com/media/2025/nov…

Harry Eccles These are the people who ‘want their country back’ and fantasise about what life was like ‘back then’. The same people who want to destroy the institutions the U.K. is based on.

Robbie Gibb at work in 2020.

The new Play for Today on Channel 5 is an absolute gem. It instantly transported me back to the originals of the 1970s – bold, brilliantly written slices of real life that stayed with you long after the credits rolled. What really stands out here is the craft. The writing is

See our full report into what changed in British theatre repertoire either side of lockdown. britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheatre…

Just to say that the radio version of my last year RSC play about American political consultants inventing Trumpism in Eastern Europe, The New Real, goes out on Radio 4 at 3.00pm on Saturday. Then available for 30 days on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Here, too, is the HIT THE NORTH podcast playlist, with the music featured in the Introduction and 4 episodes proper so far: open.spotify.com/playlist/5jfOG…

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: playwright Trevor Griffiths turns his wife's experiences of breast cancer treatment into a cathartic/harrowing Play For Today, Through The Night, starring the little known Alison Steadman as the recipient of an unexpected mastectomy. youtube.com/watch?v=uX9g7V…