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Russia is hunting civilians all along the entire front line. The killing of people. The killing of children. Deliberate FPV drone strikes on first responders and medics arriving to help after attacks – all of this is typical for every city or community within reach of Russian

Our coming role, at best, court jester - more likely, lab rat.

This is a sparkling, fittingly flamboyant one-dame homage to the power of panto and the life-changing value of its subversive/ progressive carry-on. Though out of season it feels like the slipper fits nicely at Edfest. Most people will have a ball. share.google/M9NEcQkEAEJhwL…

What a mess telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

The Sun’s disastrous bid to shame Elton John for “vice” revisited in Henry Naylor’s excellent solo show - I think his best to-date - ⁦Pleasance⁩ . Fleet Street’s heyday/ nadir remembered, with a fierce evocation of the homophobic 80s. edfringe.com/tickets/whats-…

By August 4, 1938, the NKVD had arrested over 17,000 Polish children, branding them the offspring of “enemies of the people.” Most were orphaned after their parents were shot in Stalin’s “Polish Operation”, - a campaign of ethnic cleansing masked as political repression. It

Lovely stuff

Edfest shows I've really liked a lot in the past day or so include Body Count, Ohio and Lost Lear. edfringe.com/tickets

I thought this must be a parody. But no

Rachel Creeger bounces back from cancellation in style - check out Ultimate Jewish Mother at the new venue The Big Tent at Hoots @ Nicolson Square, 12.30pm (to Aug 17); free, non-ticketed telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-to…

Kyiv. The funeral of Victoria Roshchyna, a brave Ukrainian journalist who was tortured in Russian captivity #Ukraine

Oasis are in toon tonight. As ever I have made a pilgrimage to Ciao Roma, the best Italian restaurant, rocking the Fringe since the mid 90s. #wonderwall

On August 8, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising was in the grip of one of its darkest phases. In the Wola district, the mass killings that had begun days earlier reached staggering proportions. Heinrich Himmler’s orders to “kill anything that moves” were carried out with unrelenting

Lear reimagined, Lockerbie revisited; my best of the fest so far telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…

Apparently numbers are down cos of Oasis and everyone needs to rally to support the bohemians in their hour of need. So here’s a boost for a show about modern day levellers directed by Mark Thomas, running in a post prandial slot. ⁦Pleasance⁩ (I haven’t seen it)

Apparently numbers are down cos of Oasis and everyone needs to rally to support the bohemians in their hour of need. So here’s a boost for a show about modern day levellers directed by Mark Thomas, running in a post prandial slot. Pleasance (I haven’t seen it)

It’s basically Oasis v Blur again telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/0…

In Bed with My Brother, not in bed with Elton John, and on the mattress in Body Count… qualified raunch returns to the fringe telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…