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Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my...

Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one...

some pretty wild posts recently on social media. recentlysocial mone of them wast the cocaine found the white house was at belonged to eithern the president or his son. are you willing to sayt or that thats not the case, that they dont belong to them? i dont have a response to that because we have to be carefuolec about the hatch act and the hatch act. >> they still donhe hatcht know what that is. the level of security and surveillance presente leve n the white house begs the question ...

recently on social media. one of them is that cocaine found in the white house was belonging to either the president or his son. are you willing to say that is not the case, it dont belong to them. >> i dont have a response to that because we have to be careful about the hatch act. >> the hatch act, and they still dont know what that is. the level of security and surveillance prevalent in the white house begs the question. why have they not located a suspect. is biden stonewalling on o...

three vaccines thanks to donald trumps operation warp speed. there were already a million vaccines being administered to peoples arms every day when biden was sworn in, 36 million doses at already been distributed. according to joe it was the biden administration that stepped in, heroically saved america from covid-19, none of this is true. wheres the unity, joe? >> president biden: im using every power i have as president of the united states to put us on a war footing to get the job ...

donald trumps operation warp speed. there were already a million vaccines being administered to peoples arms every day when biden was sworn in, 36 million doses at already been rpdistributed. according to joe it was the biden administration that stepped in, heroically saved america from covid-19, none of this is true. wheres the unity, joe? >> president biden: im using every power i have as president of the united states to put us on a war footing to get the job done. it sounds like hy...

Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. In the russia probe. S your head is nodding. Do you adopt the same position . Absolutely. The question here as mentioned was the nature of his communications with the Russian Hackers. This indictment against the 12 officers mentioned. This was more about passing statement. There could be more behind it that these Russian Hackers were in contact with the person reported to be roger stone in terms of soliciting ...

At the moment here in london, you also clearly have some scepticism, some doubts about elements of the ultra—progressive, some would say "woke", mindset that we see in some liberal circles on campuses, both in the united states and the united kingdom. you create this imagined debate about african—american studies on campus. and you wrestle with the notion that white professors are now dominant in this department. youre kind of mocking it. youre almost mocking an ultra—woke agenda. well, i ...

So, again, i say i respectfully disagree with the analysis. and yet, having just seen beneathas place, this revival of a play you wrote actually a decade ago, which is on at the young vic at the moment here in london, you also clearly have some scepticism, some doubts about elements of the ultra—progressive, some would say "woke", mindset that we see in some liberal circles on campuses, both in the united states and the united kingdom. you create this imagined debate about african—american s...

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