Is this a debate in which both sides are driven by fear . Judith butler, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Im glad to be here. Well, its a pleasure to have you here. You have a long academic career. Youve written some very well known books on gender theory. I just wonder, in your view, whether this debate about gender has fundamentally changed . Has the climate around it really changed . Yes, i think it has. I think at the beginning of gender studies, a very important field within feminism, In The Beginning of queer theory, we talked about gender in different ways. We talked about the Gender Division Of Labour or gender differentials when were discussing literacy or education how many men or women are getting certain benefits. It was an important way of thinking about a powerful social structure in society, mainly with the idea of trying to achieve greater equality or trying to understand why hierarchies exist and what we might do to get over them. But there was also Gender Identity, whi
Class and that is something of a rarity in the performing arts. Why . Eddie marsan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Nice to be here. You do seem to be that rare breed as an actor, a guy who is constantly, permanently busy. How do you manage it . I just. I think when i first started in drama school, i was always the guy who played the old man in the chekhov piece. If there was a young, attractive young man played the guy who shot himself at the end, i was always the old guy with gout. They used to call me captain velcro in drama school because i played all the small parts. So, i realised very early on that nobody would want me to be me because, in reality, i dont think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. Oh, my goodness. Youve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the Acting Profession. Is that something that youve found. Youve had to come to terms with, or was it always an easy thing to
the israeli military has sacked two senior officers after the air strikes on a convoy in gaza this week which left seven aid workers dead three of them british. israel has now given its first detailed account about how and why it carried out the attack. it says its drone operators wrongly assumed hamas fighters had taken over the convoy in a serious violation of procedures. meanwhile, the israeli government is now opening up new routes for aid deliveries into gaza the erez crossing here in the north, and also the port of ashdod in israel. it follows a warning from us presidentjoe biden that israel must do more to help civilians in gaza. here s our diplomatic correspondent paul adams. the investigation s finding starstart, it should never have happened. the devastating attack on monday, a combination of mistaken identification and bad decision making. the israeli army has been given more details about what they say happened on monday night been giving. half an hour afte
Indices, reflecting a return to an appetite for risk. And also on the programme. And is a lack of charging Points Holding back growth in the electric car market . The boss of the uks Largest Network of Charging Stations is here. So today we want to know whats holding you back from going electric . If you drive would you go electric . Let us know, use the hashtag bbc biz live. Hello and welcome to Business Live. The british Prime Minister theresa may has this morning, published a blueprint for Future Trade Relations between the uk and the European Union. In the first of a series of brexit papers, the government suggested creating an interim period of trade, saying one possible approach would be a temporary Customs Union between the uk and the eu. That means they would continue applying the same tariffs to goods from outside the union which can then move between them without more tariffs being added. The governments Brexit Committee hopes a time limited transition period will give import