I can highly recommend the current touring production of David Hare’s play “The Absence of War,” playing this week at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. It proved a refreshing alternative to the Party Leaders’ Question Time sessions last night and provided a very realistic (if somewhat depressing) analysis of the state of our democracy.
David Hare’s take on the state of the Labour Party and politics in general dates from 1993, but it is highly prophetic in terms of the current General Election: political parties fear saying what they really think and what they really intend to do, while the whole process is distorted by a vicious and unforgiving press.