#DontvoteforGeorgeGalloway #BatleyAndSpen I first met George Galloway in Bucharest in 1990 sticking up for Team Stalin. Don't vote for the tyrant's friend.

On tonight's #ArtsWatch, martin mcnamara talks about his play, 'Rita McGrinder Is Still Here', at Omnibus Theatre. Listen in after 6 play.riversideradio.com

Thanks to the Irish World for giving #ritamcgrinder such lovely coverage. We are on now at Omnibus Theatre .theirishworld.com/educating-rita/

On Sunday's Barclay's Brunch, 11-1pm, writer/actor Matthew Seager talks about #InOtherWords and its amazing journey. Plus martin mcnamara on his darkly comic play, 'Rita McGrinder Is Still Here'. Great music too! Listen in at play.riversideradio.com or via your smart speaker #dementia

#RITAMCGRINDER "….brilliant writing…beautifully observed…McGrinder is played superbly by Mary O’Sullivan, so well in fact that it is hard to register that this is not actually O’Sullivan’s tale…" thereviewshub Omnibus Theatre on until 16 September omnibus-clapham.org/rita-mcgrinder/

Review of martin mcnamara's #RitaMcGrinderIsStillHere Omnibus Theatre breaking-the-fourth-wall.com/2023/09/04/rit…

★★★★ - breakingthefourthwall "A masterpiece in the making" - The Morning Star" ….brilliant writing…beautifully observed…McGrinder is played superbly by Mary O’Sullivan…" - thereviewshub omnibus-clapham.org/rita-mcgrinder/

Great to chat to Ian Barclay about our Irish comic drama #ritamcgrinder Omnibus Theatre. We are on until 16 September. Come and see us!

#ritamcgrinder ⁦Omnibus Theatre⁩ until Saturday 16 September omnibus-clapham.org/rita-mcgrinder/

Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street yesterday, which reminds me to recommend this BBC Radio 4 drama, Mosley Must Fall, by martin mcnamara directed by Anne Isger & starring Stephen Hogan Maggie Cronin @joeayre Shaun Mason @Lloydence Available BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Certain British Conservatives, like Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, think you can be pro-Ukraine and pro-Trump. Obviously you cannot. If you support Trump, you support Putin. You may not wish to admit it, but that is the consequence of what you are promoting.

Russian funding of political parties and individual MPs in the U.K. - indeed all overseas funding - needs to be made illegal. Retweet please if you agree.

Brexit was when logic lost the argument and ours became an irrational country.

Would Andy Street have won if he hadn’t thought a personal endorsement from Boris Johnson was a good thing to have?

NEW: We need to talk about Russia. So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage. My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

🇪🇺 Lord Hammond: "And here we are, a relatively small country with a medium sized economy, not in any large block, not a member of any large trading structure, trying to work out how to protect our economy in this new world order."

Fascinating. John Cleese

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Bloody hell