‘It’s a zeitgeist-capturer’: climate crisis and trans rights are talk of Edinburgh festival

Walkout by authors over fossil fuel links plus controversies about identity, racism and sexism are hot topics at politically charged eventWhen Jessica Gaitán Johannesson led a mass walkout at an Edinburgh book festival event last weekend, she told the …

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Rob Newman review – a workout for the mind as well as the funny bone

Soho theatre, LondonNewman’s boffin-ish routines reach for huge ideas about humankind and its ancestors via Gary Numan and DH LawrenceThe closing song of Rob Newman’s new show hymns homo ergaster, a species of ancient human who – to our host’s approval…

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