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Katharine Birbalsingh has taught Labour an embarrassing lesson

07.02.2025 2

Kate Maltby

Sorry, Dame Judi, BBC Radio’s job is to find listeners, not train playwrights

01.02.2025 6

Kate Maltby

Jews are afraid again – Holocaust education has failed

27.01.2025 8

Kate Maltby

Hostage Emily Damari has been freed – but the UK did not do enough

22.01.2025 3

Kate Maltby

England cricket stars have a rare chance to stand up to the Taliban

In 1970, a young white activist named Peter Hain led a campaign of disruptive protest which led to the England cricket team’s decades-long boycott...

02.01.2025 2

Kate Maltby

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence

In 1986, Sigourney Weaver completed her second Alien movie and returned to New York’s off-Broadway scene to prove she could do Shakespeare. For...

29.12.2024 40

Kate Maltby

We are scared to talk about cousin marriage – but we must

The American novelist Louisa May Alcott is best known for the Little Women series of novels. In the 1870s, however, her popularity with female...

23.12.2024 9

Kate Maltby

Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories

This Christmas, find some pity for Lynda Snell MBE. Fans of the BBC radio soap The Archers know Lynda as the stalwart organiser of every Christmas...

22.12.2024 5

Kate Maltby

No one in the West has the right to lecture Syrians about celebrating

In 2014 and 2015, I visited some of the refugee camps that were then providing uncertain shelter to more than four million Syrian people across the...

13.12.2024 70

Kate Maltby

Chris Riddell on Labour’s Lawmaker Express. It is not for turning – cartoon

30.11.2024 4

Kate Maltby

Wicked would be fun and forgettable but for the alt-right waging dark arts against it

The “war on woke” has a new target and her name is the Wicked Witch of the West. If you’re a fan of the musical Wicked, you’ll also know her as...

30.11.2024 2

Kate Maltby

Starmer is at a crossroads: change course now or regret it

Paul Samuelson, disciple of the economist John Maynard Keynes, shaped the modern centre-left as an adviser to US presidents John F Kennedy and...

27.11.2024 2

Kate Maltby

Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer clinging to growth while the stuff of nightmares gather round – cartoon

23.11.2024 4

Kate Maltby

A caring Thomas Cromwell makes good TV, but beware the ‘yes’ men who enable tyrants

Thomas Cromwell is back, and this time he’s a romantic. In Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light , the latest BBC TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s...

23.11.2024 10

Kate Maltby

Ukraine is turning into a second Afghanistan

In February 2020, the first Trump administration signed the Doha accord with the woman-hating Taliban. The deal provided for an immediate reduction...

19.11.2024 1

Kate Maltby

The assisted dying bill answers few questions - but raises bigger, scarier ones

Between April 2022 and April 2024, a government computer divorced 79 couples by accident. Divorce within a year of marriage is illegal in the UK; a...

12.11.2024 2

Kate Maltby

America's future is our future – we just don't get to choose it

If you’ve been anxious while waiting for the results of this week’s US election, spare a thought for the nerves of the UK’s security services. For...

05.11.2024 2

Kate Maltby

King Charles is facing a new and more effective type of protest

For six decades, Buckingham Palace has tried to persuade Australia to fall in love with Charles Windsor. In 1966, the teenage prince was shipped...

22.10.2024 1

Kate Maltby

David Cameron’s Israel intervention is a just cynical political move

Itamar Ben-Gvir grew up in a suburb of Jerusalem. His parents were Mizrahi Jews, from the closed Jewish communities who had lived for centuries in...

15.10.2024 1

Kate Maltby

Artistic freedom in our theatres is being lost to fear and self-censorship

Last month, Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre cancelled its production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Previews had already begun; the press...

12.10.2024 10

Kate Maltby

I met a police office after 7 October – it told me everything about antisemitism in Britain

This week, my Jewish friends and I marked a year since 7 October, 2023. Some of my non-Jewish friends marked it too, a little differently. Perhaps...

09.10.2024 10

Kate Maltby

Silence has become a luxury only the wealthy can afford

I’ve stopped eating at my local café. The food’s cosy, the service cheerful and they make a decently priced double espresso. I had been going there...

25.09.2024 5

Kate Maltby

This is the Taylor Swift vs. Elon Musk election

How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk? Too successful to dismiss, too chaotic to predict, Musk shares a perturbing talent with his frenemy...

19.09.2024 1

Kate Maltby

We are falling into a familiar trap with Ofsted

In 1778, a teenager named Christel von Lassberg was found dead in Germany, close to the home of the writer Goethe. Goethe’s servants discovered her...

10.09.2024 2

Kate Maltby

Taylor Swift, Malala and the abandoning of Afghan women

This summer, I joined nearly a million women – and a few hundred thousand men – who sang our socks off at one of Taylor Swift’s Eras concerts in...

28.08.2024 2

Kate Maltby

The power of the Queen's quiet, British disdain for Trump

When Queen Elizabeth II died, obituaries lauded her skills as a diplomat. She was a priestess of paradoxes: never political, never “meddling”, but...

20.08.2024 1

Kate Maltby

If Boris Johnson is Ukraine's only hope, we're in very dark times

A few days after he won the November 2016 US Presidential election, Donald Trump took it upon himself to instruct the UK in how to appoint its...

18.07.2024 2

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Wicked would be fun and forgettable but for the alt-right waging dark arts against it

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Starmer is at a crossroads: change course now or regret it

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America's future is our future – we just don't get to choose it

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