Not enough comment on Rev Lorenzo Sewell who didn't just reference\cite MLKing's I have a dream speech but quoted most of its second half - word for word and uncredited. Sewell thanked God for Trump and has just issued a cryptocurrency. I have a nightmare. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/l…

Proud to support this symposium hosted by New Perspectives Theatre Company, next Tues 11 March, 2.30-5pm, followed by drinks Nottingham Playhouse (tickets £25) WGGB Theatre Chair + New Perspectives founder member Richard Pinner is taking part in a panel nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/then-no…

Announcing Then, Now & Next: New Perspectives @ 50 Playwriting, Memory, and Community Symposium at Nottingham Playhouse, 11 March at 2.30pm 🤩 This symposium is supported by The Writers' Guild. Find out more 👉️ newperspectives.co.uk/then-now-next-…

Excellent review of Jon Bloomfield and my Little Black Book of the Populist Right (Byline Times) in the antifascist @Searchlightmagazine. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/03/book-r…

Huge and best wishes to Tallulah Brown for the opening performance of her play The Tryal of Witches at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, supported by the The Writers' Guild-backed New Play Commission Scheme, tonight. theatreroyal.org/events/a-tryal…

I'm proud to have been asked to write an overview of @Searchlightmagazine's 50 year continuous history. A fitting moment to mark the unique contribution of Gerry Gable, who has made a lifelong, unmatchable contribution to the antifascist struggle. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/03/search…

My day began listening to Amol Rajan quoting Gramsci on BBC Radio 4 Today (the great Italian Marxist on what happens when an old order is dying and the new one is yet to be born). The day 's been just as good ever since.

Is Trump just an out-of-control supermarket trolley? Or is there method in his madness? My co-writer Jon Bloomfield has an insightful and important piece on the real dynamics of the new world order, in @BylineTimes/bylinetimes.com/2025/03/11/the…

After 50 years of fighting fascism with unique intel and analysis, the last, bumper print edition of @Searchlightmagazine is now out there (the online edition carries on, from strength to strength). I've written an overview of Searchlight's history. searchlightmagazine.com/tag/david-edga…

Is there such a thing as "left" Trumpism? Is Blue Labour really Labour at all? Jon Bloomfield and my new Byline Times piece follows up on our Little Black Book of the Populist Right. bylinetimes.com/2025/04/01/blu…

Mike Bradwell's death is such sad news. Founder of one of the great (and lasting) companies, AD of the most consistently important London spaces (also lasting), author of the best theatrical memoirs, and a giant of the alternative theatre some of us were privileged to grow up in.

See Michael Coveney's wonderfully spirited and evocative @Guardian obit of the great and hugely-missed Mike Bradwell, founder of Hull Truck and steward of Bush Theatre during one of its most glorious periods. theguardian.com/stage/2025/apr…

The great and good Ian McKellen has picked my The RSC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby (dir. Nunn & Caird) as his favourite play. This is one of the great King Lears, Macbeths and Richard II's (and much else besides). I couldn't be more honoured. thestage.co.uk/features/my-fa…

Very much looking forward to this event in Lewes.

There's a move afoot to redesignate Far Right parties and politicians as just "New Right". Jon Bloomfield and I explain on Byline Times why this should be opposed. bylinetimes.com/2025/05/12/pop…

Dear Keir. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares" (Hebrews 13.2). That's the people looking after our parents. Teaching our kids. Building our houses. Running our railways. Staffing our NHS.

Hugely looking forward to this event.

At Lewes Labour Party event 'The Resistible Rise of the Populist Right' Sat 12 July hear Sunder Katwala Director British Future on how progressive patriotism can be answer to the Populist Right. Also David Edgar Jon Bloomfield Jovan Owusu-Nepaul Tkts eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-resistib…