Review of comedy show: Zoë Coombs Marr -The Opener

‘Hey, what’s up cunts?!’ is how Zoe Coombs Marr opened her show.  ‘Cervix is the answer to that question, not always, let’s not be reductive, or transphobic.  Yip, that’s my opener.’

That was Zoe being Zoe, a progressive woke comedian, not Zoe being Dave, the white ‘cis’ heterosexual xenophobic male parody character she’s created (though I do use that term loosely) and despises.

Greta Thunberg returns to the Southbank with friends

Last year the Southbank hosted Greta Thunberg for the launch of her book The Climate Book, covered by me in this blog. The then CEO committed to make environmentalism core to the Southbank’s values. Then it was reported that the Southbank was going to plant 390 trees outside the gallery in a pocket forest, which hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t think it will, given there is no space for such a huge numbers of trees.

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