Alongside

• Sommige parlementsleden beschuldigen de burgemeester van Greater Manchester ervan de boodschap van de lokale verkiezingscampagne te ondermijnen tijdens het Change:Now-evenement. • De beslissing van Andy Burnham om op een progressieve rally te verschijnen naast prominente figuren van de Green Party en Liberal Democrats heeft woede opgeroepen bij enkele Labour-MP's, die hem beschuldigen van het ondermijnen van hun lokale verkiezingsboodschap. • De burgemeester van Greater Manchester, die wordt gezien als een van de meest waarschijnlijke uitdagers van Keir Starmer, zal deze maand spreken op het Change:Now-evenement, georganiseerd door de linkse groep Compass.

Tony award-winning actor will play lead role of Judith Bliss in Noël Coward’s comedy at Wyndham’s theatre in LondonChristine Baranski is to make her West End debut alongside Richard E Grant in a revival of Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. The US star, known for her TV roles in The Good Fight and The Gilded Age, says she is looking forward to “tearing a passion to tatters” in the 1925 play about a family toying with their guests at a country house party.She will star as the newly retired actor Judith Bliss, with Grant playing her novelist husband. Baranski has twice won the Tony award for best featured actress in a play – with New York productions of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing in 1984 and Neil Simon’s Rumors in 1989. She also appeared in the comedies Hurlyburly (in 1985) and Boeing-Boeing (in 2008) on Broadway. Continue reading...

Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme On the second floor of the Reina Sofía, in the very spot where Picasso’s Guernica was first exhibited when it arrived in the Madrid museum 34 years ago, there now hangs a smaller, near-namesake of the Spanish artist’s most famous work.While African Guernica, which was drawn by the late South African artist Dumile Feni in 1967, may lack the scale of Picasso’s masterpiece, its depth, anger and unnerving juxtaposition of man and beast, light and dark, and innocence and cruelty, are every bit as disturbing. Continue reading...