A United Kingdom Film Review

A United Kingdom is a fantastic film.  It highlights not only the power of love but more importantly the politics of apartheid.  Great Britain was a lead player in Botswana’s apartheid history. The film focuses on the relationship between the main characters:...

Racism Sexism May Become Lost Voices With Popularism

In America, Britain and Europe, popularism has taken hold with a breed of establishment politician who says they are anti-establishment. They are also anti-integration and anti-women.  That is racism and sexism.  Lost Voices, the poem, below, is about racism, sexism,...

Beyoncé – Choking On Lemonade 2

The Beyhive, the fans of Beyoncé, say Lemonade is ‘Beyoncé’s evolution as an intersectional feminist and her identifying with blackness and Civil Rights.  So Bey is ‘woke’. She has come a long way from saying ‘It is not about colour or race.’ Or has she?  I say...

Beyoncé – Choking On Lemonade

Beyoncé is on the European leg of her Formation tour, named after Lemonade’s first released single.  Billboard say ‘Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” is a Revolutionary Work of Black Feminism.  Her fans say it’s ‘Beyoncé’s evolution as an intersectional...

The Suicide – Review

Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman wrote the satire, The Suicide in 1928 and Suhayla El-Bushra’s adaptation, playing at the National Theatre, has brought it bang up to date.  The play is set in multi-cultural London around Clement Attlee House under the current...

Knife Edge Runs With The Best

One day I was at the National Theatre watching Lorraine Hansberry’s epic masterpiece ‘Les Blancs’.  A disturbing and haunting story about the end of the colonial era in an imaginary African country.  It was a compelling cast, on a big stage, which brought sight and...