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Is Britain the World’s Least Racist Country? Pretending to be best in class may salve the conscience of the establishment but it means systemic inequality can be ignored with a smile. 14 April 2021 In 2018 Donald Trump claimed to be “the least racist person anybody is going to meet” in an interview with Piers Morgan. Made just months after the former president called attendees at a neo-nazi rally “very fine people“, Trump’s statement was so ridiculous as to be funny. Yet such hyperbole is dangerous in not only obscuring the nature of contemporary racism, but reducing it to the sp...

Alexey Shor defies simple categorisation, a composer whose relatively recent debut onto the classical music landscape has been marked by enthusiastic audience receptions, endorsements from renowned soloists and an impressive roster of international performances in leading concert halls across the globe. This year marks the tenth edition of the InClassica Malta International Music Festival, a three-week-long celebration of classical music on the picturesque Mediterranean island of Malta for which Shor will serve as Composer-In-Residence, contributing works for many of the concerts held as part...

Jeffrey Boakye , March 2nd, 2021 09:25 It was only when Jeffrey Boakye moved out of London that he realised his sense of Black British identity was overly-rooted on the capital. Here, he explores two very different stories of Black life in Hull to argue that we need to look less to America while looking toward a deeper understanding of Black life at home Truth be told, when I started researching this article, I had to double-check the stats. It sounds almost implausible: that out of the 1.9 million people classified as ‘Black’ currently living in the UK, over 1.1 million happen to live in...

Intensity can dissolve distance. Hopes were always high for Hymn, Lolita Chakrabarti’s new play, not least because it starred Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani. Then Covid snatched it from the stage and its chances seemed sadly diminished. Could a drama about intimacy and trust be convincing when actors have to stand two metres apart? Blanche McIntyre’s tremendous livestreamed production proves that it can. It is the layering – of sound, sight, words, dance, gesture – that gives this two-hander its depth charge. Chakrabarti wanted to explore something she had seen among frie...

Typical: Soho Theatre On Demand | Review February 25, 2021 Last updated: March 14, 2021 A black man is preparing to head out to paint the town red (this was in 1998, before anyone responds with questions about the legality of leaving one’s house to socialise). As is the case with too many black people’s stories, this is only going to end one way: badly. But this is not, despite the show’s title, a typical case of verbal abuse and a bit of argy-bargy in some nightclub. Some people even think that one hasn’t really lived unless one has been barred from at least one pub in one’s lifet...