Kate Maltby
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Viktor Orbán’s Masterplan to Make Hungary Greater Again
As Versailles was to Germany, so Trianon was to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In both treaties, the victors of World War I redrew the borders of the defeated dominions, shoring up resentments and seeding dreams of revenge. The junior partner in the then-defunct empire, Hungary lost 72 percent of its land and 64 percent of its population to newly formed neighbor states. The treaty of Trianon is… → Read More
Leopoldstadt: Tom Stoppard’s Theater of Memory
For Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt is a personal “coming-out.” That may be a difficult concept for some American Jews to understand, but England is not America. → Read More
What to Expect When a Woman Accuses a Man in Power
Last week, the world gazed on as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified against a man backed by the strongest political forces in America. I couldn’t watch. Last year, I was the woman giving evidence against one of the most powerful men in my nation’s political life. They told me I was malicious, that I was seeking feminist celebrity, that I was deceived by my own false memory. I knew I was not. In… → Read More
Anne-Marie Duff: 'I’m either on a council estate having a breakdown or in a corset dying'
Anne-Marie Duff has made her career playing complicated women. Ahead of a turn as Lady Macbeth at the National this autumn, she talks to Kate Maltby about class, activism, and the Scottish play → Read More
Anne-Marie Duff: 'I’m either on a council estate having a breakdown or in a corset dying'
Anne-Marie Duff has made her career playing complicated women. Ahead of a turn as Lady Macbeth at the National this autumn, she talks to Kate Maltby about class, activism, and the Scottish play → Read More
How Peter Hall took on Thatcher – and secured public subsidy for the arts
The founder of the RSC, who has died aged 86, leaves a complicated legacy. But we should thank him for making theatre more inclusive. → Read More
Kate Maltby: Yet another U-turn from May
History repeats itself, the first time as Tory tragedy, the second time as Tory farce. Yesterday Theresa May returned to work from a walking holiday, landed in Japan for a formal visit and told a Sky News reporter that she’d be staying on as leader of the Conservative Party to fight the next election. → Read More
Kate Maltby: Statues of old ‘heroes’ mask real debate about fascism
Two years ago I spent a lot of time worrying about statues. In Oxford, students under the banner “Rhodes Must Fall” campaigned to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes from an alcove at Oriel College. → Read More
My Brilliant Friend is one brilliant failure
Adapting Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet to stage proves too great a task for April de Angelis. → Read More
Britain has forgotten its debt to the Christians of Iraq
“Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin' and a-jivin' made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation of a long artistic tradition of celebrating the biblical Nineveh as a city of loose living. Sure, God sends the lugubrious Jonah to threaten the city with destruction if it doesn’t [...] → Read More
From Palestine to parenting: we’ve lost the art of good faith
The first casualty of war is decency on the internet. Even my most thoughtful friends have become monsters in cyberspace this week. Hamas sympathisers tweet what Brendan O’Neill calls our “moral pornography”, photographs of mutilated children, often of dubious provenance, while Israel’s most aggressive defenders accuse everyone in sight of wanting to wipe out world [...] → Read More
Cabinet Reshuffle: David Cameron may live to regret handing Michael Gove 'the black book'
Apparently, radical thought is no longer a good idea in the Tory Party. Michael Gove may be loved by the grassroots, but it was the unelected Lynton Crosby, Number 10’s campaign advisor, who pressured Gove into stepping aside, persuading the inner circle that the teaching establishment’s hatred of the Education Secretary was one of Labour’s [...] → Read More
Suzanne Moore, please don't ruin feminism by starting a feminist party
I tend to be pretty keen on all things Swedish. As Fraser Nelson has documented over the years, the radical independence of Sweden’s school system still has the rest of the world scrabbling to reproduce it, libertarian finance minister Anders Borg indulges in “punk tax-cutting” (now sadly without his trademark ponytail), and then there’s Swedish [...] → Read More
Ben Sullivan may be a hypocrite, but he's right: Oxford has a toxic 'lad' culture
Oh, Ben Sullivan. 21, and you’ve already got a Newsnight appearance under your belt. Not bad for an aspiring politician. And you’ve got a new cause: lad culture at our elite universities. Given the women who’ve been writing about this for the last five years – Caroline Criado-Perez, Ariel Levy, Rosamund Urwin – we are [...] → Read More
How dare you review a feminist book while under the influence of being male, David Aaronovitch?
“Still, in our society, women are subjected to abuse as bitches and 'hos', ridiculed for their appearance and somehow incapable of being bishops. Feminism has gone too far? It’s gone nowhere near far enough. Feminism has gone mad? It ought to be as mad as hell.” Those are the words of David Aaronovitch, Twitter-feminism’s latest [...] → Read More
Putin's champion Alexander Nekrassov boasts 79,000 Twitter followers. Could most of them be fake?
Policy pundits used to be a prim and proper bunch. But in the age of Twitter, the trash-talking starts long before TV panelists make it to a news studio. On Friday, I accepted an invitation to discuss Ukraine on Channel 4 News’s What The Four programme: barely had I taken the call from a charming news producer when [...] → Read More