Sarah Ditum
Sarah Ditum is a critic and columnist based in Bath. She tweets @sarahditum
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause