Politics off-stage and on

This week on the CW election blog, we ignore the second televised leaders’ debate; you can always read last week’s post. Instead, Joel Cohen reports from an event on youth inclusion, and finds the prevailing approach less than inspiring, Dolan Cummings reports from a free speech hustings, and argues nobody is thinking radically on libel, and, with an eye to the local elections, Institute of Ideas director Claire Fox argues that the Dagenham and Barking local authority’s approach to the BNP and its potential supporters is dangerously undemocratic. Meanwhile, Rob Killick argues that new economic thinking is missing the point.

And in a bumper week for London theatre reviews, highlights include Andrew Haydon on Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s Behud (it seems the experience of censorship has not made her a better playwright), Giulia Merlo on 1936 and Riff-Raff at the Arcola, and Matt Trueman on Little Gem at the Bush. Finally, Austin Williams is unimpressed by Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna.

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