Sarah Hemming
@sarahhemm.bsky.social
Theatre, politics and football mostly. I write about theatre (not football!) for the Financial Times.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
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This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
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on.ft.com/3JWeSj8 Bryan Cranston is superb in a stupendously well-acted All My Sons — review
Bryan Cranston is superb in a stupendously well-acted All My Sons — review
Ivo van Hove’s production of Arthur Miller’s play at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, lays bare the American dream
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November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
on.ft.com/3JWeSj8 Bryan Cranston is superb in a stupendously well-acted All My Sons — review
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‘You, Boy!
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
‘You, Boy!
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
A must-listen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A must-listen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
on.ft.com/3JWeSj8 Bryan Cranston is superb in a stupendously well-acted All My Sons — review
Bryan Cranston is superb in a stupendously well-acted All My Sons — review
Ivo van Hove’s production of Arthur Miller’s play at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, lays bare the American dream
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
on.ft.com/3JWeSj8 Bryan Cranston is superb in a stupendously well-acted All My Sons — review
OMG All My Sons is just superb. Stupendous, incredibly moving performances from Bryan Cranston, Paapa Essiedu and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. From the whole cast in fact. And so, so timely. War and peace, nickels and dimes.
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
OMG All My Sons is just superb. Stupendous, incredibly moving performances from Bryan Cranston, Paapa Essiedu and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. From the whole cast in fact. And so, so timely. War and peace, nickels and dimes.
Liverpool look like they do not have a clue what they are doing. So so poor. Really depressing.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Liverpool look like they do not have a clue what they are doing. So so poor. Really depressing.
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The bear necessities: here are the genius team bringing little Paddington to life on stage through a super-svelte mix of performance and puppetry, plus the brilliant Toby Olié and Basil Twist on why puppetry can be so profound: ‘puppetry is empathy’. on.ft.com/3XL0HR0
How Paddington became a living, breathing, sneezing stage performer
From darkest Peru to TV, film and now a London musical — meet the puppeteers bringing Michael Bond’s much-loved bear to life
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November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The bear necessities: here are the genius team bringing little Paddington to life on stage through a super-svelte mix of performance and puppetry, plus the brilliant Toby Olié and Basil Twist on why puppetry can be so profound: ‘puppetry is empathy’. on.ft.com/3XL0HR0
Let us never speak of cricket again
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Let us never speak of cricket again
The bear necessities: here are the genius team bringing little Paddington to life on stage through a super-svelte mix of performance and puppetry, plus the brilliant Toby Olié and Basil Twist on why puppetry can be so profound: ‘puppetry is empathy’. on.ft.com/3XL0HR0
How Paddington became a living, breathing, sneezing stage performer
From darkest Peru to TV, film and now a London musical — meet the puppeteers bringing Michael Bond’s much-loved bear to life
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The bear necessities: here are the genius team bringing little Paddington to life on stage through a super-svelte mix of performance and puppetry, plus the brilliant Toby Olié and Basil Twist on why puppetry can be so profound: ‘puppetry is empathy’. on.ft.com/3XL0HR0
The bear necessities: here are the team bringing little Paddington to life on stage through a super-svelte mix of performance and puppetry, plus thr brillinat Toby Olié and Basil Twist on why puppetry can be so profound: ‘puppetry is empathy’.
on.ft.com/47WgoLb
on.ft.com/47WgoLb
How Paddington became a living, breathing, sneezing stage performer
From darkest Peru to TV, film and now a London musical — meet the puppeteers bringing Michael Bond’s much-loved bear to life
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The bear necessities: here are the team bringing little Paddington to life on stage through a super-svelte mix of performance and puppetry, plus thr brillinat Toby Olié and Basil Twist on why puppetry can be so profound: ‘puppetry is empathy’.
on.ft.com/47WgoLb
on.ft.com/47WgoLb
Another fine new play 🙌 Loved End at the National Theatre, the final piece in David Eldridge’s compassionate trilogy about love on.ft.com/4o69cRp
Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves bring a tender trilogy to a close in End
At the National Theatre, love, death and the messiness of being human are deftly explored through one couple’s relationship
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November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Another fine new play 🙌 Loved End at the National Theatre, the final piece in David Eldridge’s compassionate trilogy about love on.ft.com/4o69cRp
Ashes 👀. It’s the hope that kills you…
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Ashes 👀. It’s the hope that kills you…
Listening to Gove smooth talking his way through the coruscating Covid report and struggling to keep my breakfast down.
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Listening to Gove smooth talking his way through the coruscating Covid report and struggling to keep my breakfast down.
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We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...
Yes Scotland, you can boogie! 😊🏴🙌
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Yes Scotland, you can boogie! 😊🏴🙌
Seen some good new plays recently about important subjects. After Sunday at the Bush Theatre is a witty but compassionate piece about a group of men in a secure hospital cooking together … on.ft.com/4r5wUQD
After Sunday theatre review — Caribbean cooking becomes gruelling group therapy in astute debut
Sophia Griffin’s play at the Bush Theatre centres on simmering tensions among men in a secure hospital
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November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Seen some good new plays recently about important subjects. After Sunday at the Bush Theatre is a witty but compassionate piece about a group of men in a secure hospital cooking together … on.ft.com/4r5wUQD
‘What we need is a bit of compassion in our politics.’ Alf Dubs. Hear, hear.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
‘What we need is a bit of compassion in our politics.’ Alf Dubs. Hear, hear.
‘We’re an open, generous, and tolerant country.’ Yeah?
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
‘We’re an open, generous, and tolerant country.’ Yeah?
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.