What does Geert Wilders actually want, in policy terms? A 🧵.

Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

This is just mental. Great work by ⁦Maeve McClenaghan⁩ and team theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

‘It was written for a Nosferatu musical’: how Bonnie Tyler made Total Eclipse of the Heart theguardian.com/culture/2023/n…

I echo what Tyler Austin Harper is saying here from my vantage point as a black theater artist. I echo it LOUDLY.

Much needed good news – the five children taken hostage of the three Israeli mothers I interviewed earlier this month were all released yesterday. If you want to read the original piece it's here. theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

"Her music explored sound, light, drones, the pure intervals of 'just intonation', time and spirituality..." An obituary of the extraordinary Swedish composer Catherine Christer Hennix by me for the Guardian: theguardian.com/music/2023/nov…

Santana, my friend’s granddaughter, is still missing from Ladbroke Grove. She’s only 12. Please keep a look out around London for her and please share this x Missing People

‘O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done..’

Benjamin Zephaniah: 'I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought' theguardian.com/books/2003/nov…

Archie’s newsletter is always so bright, sensible and informative

prepare to have your heart ripped out (in the best possible way)

The culture minister attacks the BBC - without evidence - for supposed impartiality failings. Meanwhile the prime minister stands in for Jacob Rees-Mogg on the entirely impartial GB News. Thank heavens we have a tough media regulator .

The reactionary replies are depressing. But the idea of “radical invitation”, or making a proper effort to encourage an an audience that previously felt excluded or unwelcome is not new, nor should it be controversial - even if a “Black out” night is - props to Jeremy O. Harris 👏

In a slight rage over the moral panic that that a certain aspect of the British public have frothed up around Black Out Nights, two nights out of over a hundred, that have seen audiences members of all race in attendance over the last four years since its inception on Broadway.

Fascinating interview with Shabaka Hutchings on his decision to set aside his saxophone and study the shakuhachi, by Alexis Petridis: theguardian.com/music/2024/mar…