Keep buggering on

With the UK election campaign finally at an end, our election blog will continue in the aftermath of the poll in a bid to stimulate serious debate about what happens next. This week, Luke Gittos explains how the parties’ apparent lack of interest in the importance of juries reflects a deeper diminishment of freedom, Dave Clements and Martin Earnshaw set out the Institute of Ideas’ Social Policy Forum’s election statement, Sarah Boyes argues that arts funding should be a bigger issue for the sake of politics as well as the arts, and Dolan Cummings exposes the dishonesty of the immigration debate. More politics-related comment, film and book reviews coming soon.

And this week in London theatre, Miriam Gillinson reviews Macbeth at the Globe, Timandra Harkness on the ENO’s Elegy for Young Lovers at the Young Vic, and Matt Trueman ponders the dilemmas of audio-instructed performance and the joys of non-PC circus.

6 May 2010