In the Summer of 2011, I was fortunate enough to work with my brother and the cast of the RSC’s production of Measure for Measure about power and politics. This is the programme note I wrote for them. Read More
As I mentioned on Radio 4 last week (starts at 38 minutes), I was highly delighted with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s embarrassment over the revelation that the Church Commissioners have inadvertently invested in Wonga. Adam Smith reckoned that the origin of morality was that we feel held in the gaze of the other. It is the risk of embarrassment – or that good old-fashioned word, shame – that keeps us on the straight and narrow. Read More
Yesterday I spent the morning with the RSC, helping the Company explore themes of power and leadership in Measure for Measure. I took The Great Brain with me, in a comedy Dr Poole BOGOF manoeuvre, who charmed them with showers of Shakespeare while I brought up the rear with Machiavelli et al. Read More
It is a brilliant move, shutting down the News of the World, regardless of the whys and wherefores. Read More
