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‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34

Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries say Reform leader often used antisemitic language and racial epithets

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8

‘I’ve never heard that’: Trump denies knowingly using anti-Semitic term

The US president used a term some consider a slur while speaking at a rally in Iowa for his America250 celebration.

Al Jazeera · Jul 4, 2025

What does Shylock mean? Trump’s antisemitic slur explained after president condemned

Here’s what Donald Trump said, what it means, and how people have reacted

The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2025

The battle of Cable Street is entwined in my family’s history – and its message of hope still resonates

On that day in 1936, members of my Jewish family stood up to the Blackshirts. Their fight against racism inspired our adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, says actor Tracy-Ann Oberman

The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2024

‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat Alareer

The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change

The Guardian - US · Dec 10, 2024

Letter: William Russell obituary

Richard Digby Day writes: His enthusiasm, intelligence and energy made him a constant pleasure to work with

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024

Adrian Schiller obituary

British actor who brought gravitas and style to his many stage roles including Shylock and Kulygin in Chekhov’s Three Sisters

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2024

Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan: the Evening Standard Theatre Awards Best Actresses on their winning sister act

The pair were gobsmacked when they were both named as joint winners

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2023

Australian theatre companies are shunning Shakespeare. A much-needed break, or a mistake?

A decade ago, William Shakespeare was the most performed playwright in Australia. In 2024 not one mainstage theatre company in Australia will perform Shakespeare. The only exception will be Bell Shakespeare.

The Conversation · Oct 17, 2023

There are no winners in the Guardian cartoon row, only losers

Media Watch: As a former newspaper editor, I like to think I would put freedom of expression first and let the cartoon through. But would I?

Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2023