Coming to England, review: a wasted opportunity to show how Floella Benjamin so spectacularly beat the odds
Based on Floella Benjamin’s childhood memoir first published in 1997, Coming to England is billed as one of the highlights of Birmingham Rep’s new season, celebrating the…
Small Island is a tremendous, tragi-comic dance through a pivotal moment in British history
Given the National Theatre’s reported lockdown losses of £50 million, not to mention its more recent Covid woes and the all-out flop that was Manor (in the…
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, Tate Britain review: as tender and joyful as it is angry and defiant
Make no mistake: Life Between Islands, Tate Britain’s ambitious new survey of Caribbean-British art from the 1950s to today, is a serious, complex, and difficult show, full…
More than 20 Windrush scandal victims died ‘without receiving compensation’
Just one in 20 victims of the Windrush scandal eligible for compensation has received any payment, according to MPs. The Commons home affairs committee found that as…