An honest guide to meeting props: here’s what your clicky pen, leather notebook and water bottle are really trying to say In the theatre of the commedia dell’arte, the character of Arlecchino can be recognised by two props – his mask and his slapstick. The commedia was built on archetypes, quickly establishing who a character was and how they would behave – and with that recognised, everyone could get on with the story. If someone had [...]
Solving workplace equality will need more than ethnicity pay reporting Theresa May’s call to make companies report their ethnicity pay gap comes from a good place. It harks back to her 2016 “burning injustices” speech, in which she pledged to tackle social inequality – and suggests that she meant it. It also comes after some success with gender pay gap reporting, which it clearly hopes [...]
