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Money is a huge obstacle for people trying to get into the arts. We need positive policies – even quotas – to improve diversityI’ve been acting professionally for more than 25 years now, but I know what it’s like to have that dream jeopardised by a lack of money. I never received a grant for drama school. My first year’s fees were cobbled together by my late mother and an East End bookmaker. And at the end of my first year, I had to audition for a scholarship to pay for the rest of the course. If I hadn’t won that I would have been out – dream over before I’d even begun. So I welcome what Maureen Beattie, the president of Equity, had to say about

Erdogan, who made his son-in-law finance minister last month, has steamed through domestic obstacles by having people dismissed or by jailing them in their tens of thousands

Previous (or even future) engagement in moral behaviour provides people with moral 'credits'. One study showed that people who were going to engage in a moral action, such as in a fundraiser or donating blood, were more likely to pick a white candidate over a black candidate as being suitable for a job

News that the company tracks users even when they forbid it shows that technology giants do not take our privacy seriously. They must be regulated Every move you make, every step you take, Google is watching you. Even, apparently, when you have explicitly told it not to.

Talk of landlord ‘league tables’ is a deliberate distraction. The only thing that will fix this crisis is build more social housing When she first came to power Theresa May promised to address Britain’s “

Thérèse Coffey’s ill-judged tweet shows we have still work to do to rid the planet of the glyphosate On a summer Sunday afternoon, Thérèse Coffey, parliamentary-under secretary of state at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), was, it would appear from her Twitter feed, about to do some gardening. Unremarkable, you might think. Parliament is in recess, and parliamentarians are entitled to their leisure like anyone else. But this was political gardening, for before doing so she put out a quite remarkable message: “Getting ready to deploy the amazing Roundup!” it said, with a picture of the bright green bottle of a weedkiller by Monsanto – a multinational company

Theresa May's announcement this week was simply too late, too late

We have allowed the temperature of politics to get out of hand

This move is a step forward, but our work at Crisis shows root causes must be tackled in order to help the thousands in needThe government has published its

Boris Johnson has repeatedly said public, prejudicial things and his party has repeatedly ignored it. Meanwhile, many of my Labour colleagues are at breaking point after the leader's refusal to tackle the antisemitism issue head on