The press doesn’t understand the public
The only institution to have had a more damaging election than the Tories was Fleet Street.
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David Hare
David Hare is a playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. His work includes the plays Plenty (1978) and Skylight (1997), and screenplays for The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008).
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David Hare’s Diary: Defending the BBC, why the Arts Council is a laughing stock and spy talk with le Carré
You may argue the corporation got its election mix wrong, but you cannot deny it is the broadest free-speech…
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What we want: to cut the prison population, abolish Trident and embrace immigration
The Home Office should also be put in special measures, like a delinquent school, until it has a humane…
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We know Boris Johnson is a liar – it’s his enablers who are most culpable
Those people who felt freshly insulted by the obviousness of his lies have simply not been following the story…
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David Hare’s diary: John McDonnell’s conversion, the ex-spooks of Suffolk, and the gentle, witty Andrea Dworkin
In 2015 the shadow chancellor told Vice magazine: “Let’s be clear, we don’t believe in leaders.”
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On Brexit, we’re feeling the aftershocks of earthquakes that happened years ago
The worse things get, the more passionately the English cling to the past.
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The night that changed my life: David Hare on eating cold roast beef with Alfred Hitchcock
I met a great artist for the first time when I was 19, in 1966, Alfred Hitchcock came to…
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David Hare’s Diary: Living by numbers, and a needless attack on theatre
The playwright is unimpressed with Nick Serota's start as head of Arts Council England.
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Despite its Brexit victory, the hate-addicted right rages on – but the left is silent
The Brexit victors aren’t addicted to independence. They’re addicted to hatred.
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