Sarah Hemming
@sarahhemm.bsky.social
Theatre, politics and football mostly. I write about theatre (not football!) for the Financial Times.
So many of Reform's woes can be explained with reference to Patrick O'Flynn's description of Nigel Farage: 'snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive'.
Reform UK suspends Tory defector Tim Montgomerie after criticism of Nigel Farage
Board member called out party leader last week for failing to appear at Clacton by-election count
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Appalling headline from BBC .. not “ they claim it would “ just a statement accepted and repeated as fact ! Bias, what bias ??? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please challenge this !
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
Who would have believed a few years ago that 25 degrees would feel cool
Reform’s electoral record at parliamentary by-elections: win by five votes when the previous Labour MP had literally decked one of his constituents. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Beat a novelty candidate with no ground game while doing worse than the Tories in the same seat in 2019.
So, Big Nige beat the bin. Next he will contest a damp flannel, a tin of beans and a toddler with a grudge.
Everything about last night should remind us that we are simply the current custodians of this beautiful planet: the spectacular eclipse, the generosity of strangers, the shared excitement, the magical pictures casually created by holes in a fence, the mass assemblies of colanders and cereal boxes ❤️
The great thing about being in Greenwich is that there are some expert astronomers on hand
FIFA: Let’s ruin football and destroy the world. World: Please don’t. FIFA: What is this concerted and ongoing effort by some to undermine FIFA and its President?!?
LOVED Tao of Glass at Soho Place Theatre giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Phelim McDermott brings his playful, profound investigation into the power of music and theatre to London’s Soho Place
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LOVED Tao of Glass at Soho Place Theatre giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Phelim McDermott brings his playful, profound investigation into the power of music and theatre to London’s Soho Place
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Quick quick, our stupid readers may notice that we're wrong about Reform storming to victory for Manchester mayor. Turns out that Labour wins by a huge margin. Get someone from entertainment to write some bollocks about Africans trying to invade the country. Hate don't think.
While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.
My word, the Northern Line is some special circle of hell tonight 🥵
‘You have 7 MPs and no health spokesperson’ ‘I don’t agree’ 🤯
Shall we talk about the money or are we going to continue to indulge the smokescreen antics? #r4today
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
I know it probably will, in fact it surely definitely will, but right now it is hard to imagine it ever raining in London again
Breaking News: President Trump ordered new signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to warn that its depiction of U.S. history, in his view, is “inaccurate.” It was the latest escalation in his dispute with the institution.
Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...
Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources
Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage
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Dearie me 😞 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Trainspotting the Musical review — choose something, anything, but this
Trainspotting the Musical review — choose something, anything, but this
Heroin addiction and musical theatre are uneasy bedfellows in this Irvine Welsh adaptation at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket
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Loved Branagh and there are some great insights and gorgeous ideas in this Cherry Orchard, but it doesn’t scope the great emotional, psychological and political reach of Chekhov’s masterpiece giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The Cherry Orchard — Kenneth Branagh is terrific but where’s the heartbreak?
Helen Hunt and Bill Pullman also star in an RSC production full of insight but lacking Chekhov’s poignancy
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