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| | | Day Today 'Pound stolen' sketch goes viral after sterling tanks | | by Martin Belam Sep 27, 2022 | | Social media users post sardonic British humour after Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget The markets may have reacted badly to Kwasi Kwarteng’s “fiscal event”, sending the pound tumbling to its lowest level against the dollar for decade, but you can always count on some stoic British humour in the face of the government tanking the economy. Conservative MPs and bells don’t always go well together – remember when Jeremy Hunt nearly decapitated someone on HMS Belfast with his flying clanger? – and this old clip of Liz Truss having trouble ringing one did the rounds as a metaphor for her handling of the economy so early in her tenure. Continue reading... | | | | | Sus review – harrowing police racism drama more relevant than ever | | by Anya Ryan Sep 27, 2022 | | Park theatre, London
Barrie Keeffe’s play about a Black man accused of the murder of his pregnant wife is still potent, but the production lacks polish You might expect times to have changed since Barrie Keeffe’s play Sus, which explores the deep-set systemic racism within the Metropolitan police and premiered over 40 years ago. But with Black people still nine times more likely to be stopped and searched than their white counterparts, and the recent resignation of the Met Police’s commissioner Cressida Dick after being accused by the London mayor of failing to deal with misogyny and racism in the force, it feels as insidious as ever. Set on the eve of Thatcher’s landslide victory in 1979, Sus zooms in on a police questioning room, where an unemployed father of three, Delroy (Stedroy Cabey) has been bought in for interrogation. Initially believing he is there under Sus (suspected person) laws, it eventually unravels that he is actually being accused of the murder of his pregnant wife, Georgie. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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