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 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 to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a Battering Ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. But those issues youve just outlined race, immigration they are centr
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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 to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a Battering Ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. But those issues youve just outlined race, immigration they are central to your work, because theyre central to your own life story. Yeah, totally and utterly. But. And have you been frightened off entering this territory at times . Again, i think its framed brilliantly. Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, when im afraid o
Weve got seven children, so weve got nothing to dry our clothes on, we cant hang clothes out, so were all a bit wet. Were making the best of it. We are having fun, were all together. Harman is here from london with his family, who are visiting from india. I was wondering that, given its the month of august now, it would be, like, good weather for beach, but british weather is as uncertain as ever. Martha has taken the weather as it comes day by day. Weve got four days camping. So, yeah, rain the first day, | its obviously very windy and wet today, but yesterday, we all got sunburns back at hoburne holiday park, guests see this wet weather as part and parcel of a Quintessentially British summer and, in true british fashion, take in the weather in their stride. You bring your raincoats, you bring your shorts, you bring a bit of everything, dont you . And then youve got it in the car if you need it. And weve needed it not a true british holiday, isnt it, if you dont have a bit of rain . B
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThe 1975 social scene of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans reminds viewers that 2024’s Real Housewives are amateurs at shade, gossip, and holding a grudge. The first two episodes, now streaming on FX and Hulu, recapture when Esquire magazine was that era’s Bravo.Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) betrayed his friends and destroyed his social status with Esquire’s late-October publication of “La Cote Basque, 1965”—a fictional story splaying out r