RT @LewesLabour: At @LewesLabour event 'The Resistible Rise of the Populist Right' Sat 12 July hear @sundersays Director @britishfuture on….

Hugely looking forward to this event.

Dear Keir. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares" (Hebrews 13.2). That's the people looking after our parents. Teaching our kids. Building our houses. Running our railways. Staffing our NHS.

Thanks so much for alerting me (and all your other followers) to the showing of the Berliner Ensemble Mother Courage which I've just watched. It's breathtakingly good, for all kinds of Brechtian reasons, but most of all the power of Helene Weigel's stunning performance. Wow.

Thanks to @Csvich for alerting me to this. One evening to go, to see a recording of one of the great plays, productions and performances of the 20th century. Can't wait.

There's a move afoot to redesignate Far Right parties and politicians as just "New Right". @jonbloomfield2 and I explain on @BylineTimes why this should be opposed.

Very much looking forward to this event in Lewes.

The great and good Ian McKellen has picked my @TheRSC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby (dir. Nunn & Caird) as his favourite play. This is one of the great King Lears, Macbeths and Richard II's (and much else besides). I couldn't be more honoured.

See Michael Coveney's wonderfully spirited and evocative @Guardian obit of the great and hugely-missed Mike Bradwell, founder of Hull Truck and steward of @bushtheatre during one of its most glorious periods.

Mike Bradwell's death is such sad news. Founder of one of the great (and lasting) companies, AD of the most consistently important London spaces (also lasting), author of the best theatrical memoirs, and a giant of the alternative theatre some of us were privileged to grow up in.

Is there such a thing as "left" Trumpism? Is Blue Labour really Labour at all? @jonbloomfield2 and my new @BylineTimes piece follows up on our Little Black Book of the Populist Right.

After 50 years of fighting fascism with unique intel and analysis, the last, bumper print edition of @Searchlight_mag is now out there (the online edition carries on, from strength to strength). I've written an overview of Searchlight's history.

Is Trump just an out-of-control supermarket trolley? Or is there method in his madness? My co-writer @jonbloomfield2 has an insightful and important piece on the real dynamics of the new world order, in @BylineTimes/

My day began listening to @amolrajan quoting Gramsci on @BBCr4today (the great Italian Marxist on what happens when an old order is dying and the new one is yet to be born). The day 's been just as good ever since.

I'm proud to have been asked to write an overview of @Searchlight_mag's 50 year continuous history. A fitting moment to mark the unique contribution of Gerry Gable, who has made a lifelong, unmatchable contribution to the antifascist struggle.

RT @TheWritersGuild: Proud to support this symposium hosted by New Perspectives Theatre Company, next Tues 11 March, 2.30-5pm, followed by….

RT @NPtheatre: Announcing Then, Now & Next: New Perspectives @ 50 Playwriting, Memory, and Community Symposium at @NottmPlayhouse, 11 March….

Huge and best wishes to Tallulah Brown for the opening performance of her play The Tryal of Witches at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, supported by the @TheWritersGuild-backed New Play Commission Scheme, tonight.

Excellent review of @jonbloomfield2 and my Little Black Book of the Populist Right (@BylineTimes).in the antifascist @Searchlight_mag.

Not enough comment on Rev Lorenzo Sewell who didn't just reference\cite MLKing's I have a dream speech but quoted most of its second half - word for word and uncredited. Sewell thanked God for Trump and has just issued a cryptocurrency. I have a nightmare.