Andrew Hankinson

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Hankinson

The second time I visited rehearsals for Manhunt, Robert Icke’s new play about Raoul Moat, I couldn’t watch. In an arts centre in Belsize Park - they’d moved from a previous rehearsal space due to the noise of a neighbouring musical - I sat on a blue plastic seat, averting my eyes from the actors, staring at a script, waiting for the scene to end. Most of us develop a strategy to cope with conflict when we’re children, a way to manage the noise and fear and uncertainty of what might happen next.

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Hankinson

Ahead of a new play at the Royal Court, the author of a book chronicling Moat's last days reveals the rage that fuelled his killing spreeThe second time I visited rehearsals for Manhunt, Robert Icke's new play about Raoul Moat, I couldn't watch. In an arts centre in Belsize Park - they'd moved from a previous rehearsal space due to the noise of a neighbouring musical - I sat on a blue plastic seat, averting my eyes from the actors, staring at a script, waiting for the scene to end.

2 months ago | spectator.com.au | Andrew Hankinson

Working from home has had a terrible effect on my state of mind and it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. Which is why I want to defend it in a week of it being under attack. On Monday, on the BBC’s Panorama, Stuart Rose, former chairman of Asda, said he believes ‘productivity is less good if you work from home.

2 months ago | spectator.co.uk | Andrew Hankinson

Working from home has had a terrible effect on my state of mind and it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. Which is why I want to defend it in a week of it being under attack. On Monday, on the BBC’s Panorama, Stuart Rose, former chairman of Asda, said he believes ‘productivity is less good if you work from home. I believe that your personal development suffers’.

Oct 4, 2024 | airmail.news | Andrew Hankinson

It’s September 2023. A small group of dissidents gathers in a room above a theater to discuss Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. But this is not Jeddah. This is not Riyadh. This is Newcastle upon Tyne, a working-class city in northern England, where the people are called “Geordies,” “canny” means good, and soccer means everything. At least to most locals. John Hird is an exception.