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Director of Skills, Volunteering & Wellbeing @Bradford2025 . Bits/bobs @BlackAcornUK @ShirleyCMovie & @DocRowe_Archive movie. Folk singer. He/him. My own views!
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A bit surprised by Fiona Bruce's somewhat mild/misleading description of The Spectator as merely 'right of centre' -
It's a bit like describing the Archbishop of Canterbury as 'inclined to believe in Jesus'.
#bbcqt
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Very moving - doing the washing up before bed, I realised I could hear a lone trumpeter in the cool spring night -
We ran upstairs to catch their
#MoonRiver
serenade to April’s
#PinkMoon
.
Greatly appreciated by the whole street.
#FullMoon
#HebdenBridge
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Great facial expression on this chap sat near the guy saying 'Liz Truss is doing a good job'
#bbcqt
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'But don't wind farms/solar take too long?' Fiona Bruce chides Brian Cox.
THEY DO NOT. A solar farm, w/ planning permission, can be built in 3 months. Wind farms within 18-24 months.
Compare to Rees Mogg's 'promise' of
#NuclearFusion
- tech that doesn't exist! - by 2040
#bbcqt
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1/ Are you after a new role in the arts, creativity, culture or heritage?
Ever wondered about THE BEST websites to find such opportunities?
Below is a list of *40* that I know of; please share any that you think I've missed!
🎨🎭📚🎞️🪨🎶
#ArtsJobs
#MuseumJobs
#HeritageJobs
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A devastatingly poignant moment as Billie Eilish confronts the unspeakable reality of today's gravity-collapsingly-bleak Roe vs Wade decision -
And then wipes away a tear before cascading into (Try not to abuse) 'Your Power'
#Glastonbury
#glastonbury2022
#Glasto
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A bit surprised to hear Dr Jenny Harries tell
#r4today
that the UK's current Covid Delta wave 'isn't causing significant harm', when it's killing about 800 people a week, and has been for months and months.
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Halifax has one of the most architecturally beautiful centres of any town or city in England -
Far superior to the much more widely touted likes of Cheltenham, Leamington etc, and - for me - right up there with jewels like Bath and Oxford.
Change my mind...!
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Normally quite cynical about interviewees using a backdrop of books to confer possibly undue status or authority, but Michael Palin's home library is AMAZING
#marr
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'The most expensive [residential placement for a looked-after child] I've had to pay for was £28,000 a week. If continued, that's over £1m per year*'
Across the land, our councils are being fleeced by greedy, exploitative private providers.
#Panorama
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"You can say 'people accept the risk' for breaking lockdown etc, but you also *create* the risk for people you'll infect, like key workers, who don't have a choice;
My dad was 55, a key worker and died from coronavirus"
Very powerful/truly heartbreaking from Hannah on
#bbcqt
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"It simply isn't possible for the BBC to be a champion of dissent in Russia, in Hong Kong - and at the same time, to *not* leave room for dissent in this country"
Very powerful framing from former BBC Trust Chair, Sir Michael Lyons
#Newsnight
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Astonishing and grim to have Piers Morgan on
#SundayMorning
, drawing moral equivalence between Prince Andrew and Prince Harry!
Why give him airtime to pursue his obsessive vendetta?
#BBCSM
#BBCSundayMorning
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'Put your hand up if you feel cold in your classroom'
🎒🏫✏️🙋🥶
Totally unacceptable - and at least *700k* UK pupils are experiencing these or other unacceptable building failures.
We're treating our children like Scrooge treated Bob Cratchet, pre-visitation!
#Panorama
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'If you're in the bottom 10% of household income, to follow NHS healthy diet guidance you'd have to spend **74%** of your income on food; IMPOSSIBLE'
@MichaelMarmot
emphasises that
#IncomeInequality
is the key driver of
#HealthInequality
.
When will Govt hear this?
#newsnight
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@CathAubergine
@TheLovelyEggs
@O2ApolloManc
@Nath_Brudenell
@FeaturedArtists
@Eamonn_Forde
@deankirby_
@andyjey
@guardianmusic
If the venue gets 30% of merch sales, the bands should get 30% of bar takings
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Just popped into Nisa in Hebden Bridge -
Apparently they've had a ceaseless procession of customers asking whether 'that Neil is working today'
The long-suffering woman behind the counter tonight doesn't even watch Happy Valley
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Oh no, flood sirens over
#HebdenBridge
. I hope it doesn't come to pass. What's the best way to help, if people need it?
@watermarkfund
@Calderdale
#StormCiara
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🚨PERSONAL NEWS CLAXON🚨
After a thrilling rollercoaster of a year, this week I leave
@theRSAorg
before beginning a once-in-a-lifetime new role at
@bradford2025
next month;
I'll be co-Head of Engagement for City of Culture - read on, for further details... (1/)
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@FeyeraBender
Is this a deferred April Fool, or do you have a good source for this? BBC report from a while ago described it directly as:
'A 19th Century-style bellows camera'
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What are the best websites for finding work in the arts/heritage/creative sectors?
Below is a list of the ones that I know of, please share any that you think I've missed!
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@MailOnlineVideo
@Watermarkfund
@Calderdale
@MailOnline
No, certainly not, I forbid the Mail or any linked outlets using my footage.
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BIG NEWS:
@ShanazGulzar
&
@SabbiyahPervez
reveal🎉
@zaynmalik
🎉 !!!! as one of the new
@bradford2025
brand ambassadors!!!!
#Bradford2025
#BD25
#UKCityOfCulture
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Can't believe it's
#snowing
in
#HebdenBridge
! But then again, the saying does go, 'If
#Candlemas
day be fair and bright,
#winter
shall have another flight...'
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Watching the
#London2012
opening ceremony, on the brink of wistful tears for what it represented & what has been lost since.
Just as Danny Boyle's masterpiece crystallised a national sense of unity & hope then, the arts have a profound role in healing our communities/country now
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Amazing deep journalism on
#Newsnight
, a collaborative piece with refugee film-makers from the tragically scorched
#Moria
camp in Greece.
Very sad/grim that it's so rare for TV news to acknowledge the humanity, agency, skills, dreams, fears and insight of migrants
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1/SOME PERSONAL NEWS: After the immense privilege of developing
@ace_national
's work in
#CreativeHealth
,
#CriminalJustice
and beyond over the last almost-4 years,
Next month I'll move to a new role leading
@theRSAorg
's Education Team.
I'm hugely excited, but it's also a wrench;
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Another example of why
@vicderbyshire
is head & shoulders above other current affairs presenters -
Not only offering sincere condolences to this Clinical Pharmacist, Ash, upon hearing of the loss of her husband;
But asking his name too - Sunny Dhinsa.
Real empathy.
#Newsnight
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A panel of Piers Morgan and the deputy political editor of the Spectator on
#SundayMorning
seems to embody the opposite of any claimed 'BBC left-wing bias'
#BBCSM
#BBCSundayMorning
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Just walked past three 8-10-year-old kids sat on a terraced street corner streaming classical music on a tablet, and discussing why they liked it
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A bit of news - yesterday, on
#MidgleyMoor
, I proposed 💍 to
@AliceMayMeasom
- and to my relief she accepted, ha ha.
HNY/2020 blessings, all 🥂
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China's mass internment of
#Uighurs
- over ONE MILLION PEOPLE in so-called 'concentrated training' camps - is beyond horrific.
'The biggest mass detainment of an ethnic group since the holocaust', according to
#Panorama
#BBCPanorama
.
The International community must speak out.
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Interesting to see Ben Davies giving his thoughts on the upcoming
#ENGWAL
match in Welsh, to
#bbcfootball
-
A powerful thing to do, when representing his country.
#Qatar2022
#WorldCup2022
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Are you familiar with the term 'vox-pops' for short snippets of video interview?
My team are ridiculing me, and accusing me of making it up
Back me up here, ha ha
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I find it appalling that the Govt chose to publish its culture-war-stoking 'trans guidance' for schools as final court deliberations in the trial of Brianna Ghey's murderers took place.
Political posturing and media transphobia cost lives.
#c4news
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'
#SocialPrescribing
isn't designing something new -
It's creating an architecture to connect everything that already exists;
And putting humans at the centre'
Brilliant crystallisation of what we're all trying to do, by
@MariePolley1
at
#SocialPrescribing2021
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Hi
@bbcnews
#bbcnews
, why aren’t you covering this URGENT story about potential
#GulfStreamCollapse
, bringing an existential risk to civilisation?
Papers from
@guardian
to
@DailyMailUK
are doing so. This should be a bulletin-leading story for you, too.
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‘Taking up a hobby leaves an adult x3 more likely to recover from depression’
Mind-blowing stuff from
@Daisy_Fancourt
#ArtsOnPrescription
@r_s_p_h
#SocialPrescribing
#MentalHealth
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Great to hear
@joelycett
proclaim the democratisation of creativity that has taken place under lockdown - art belongs to all of us, not just professionals and institutions.
So important to keep this universal entitlement/confidence to make, going
#graysonsartclub
#c4artclub
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@DrRebeccaGordon
@BBCNews
A friend who interned for a music PR company said they would shamelessly forage reviews for decontextualised quotes for press releases - eg turning burns like 'truly remarkable for its banality' to 'truly remarkable'. I'd hope for better from the BBC.
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My '(ageing) literary hipster' preference for independents aside, this must still be one of the finest bookshop interiors in the realm -
The Grade I-listed, 1860s-built, 'Venetian Gothic' former Wool Exchange, now
@WaterstonesBD1
A veritable cathedral of books!!
📚⛪
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Single train ticket from Wigan to Hebden Bridge? £25.80.
A single from Wigan to Rochdale + one from Rochdale to HB? £13.10 all in.
The system is configured to fleece the unwary. It needs to change, urgently.
🚆💰😞
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'Our education system is focused on simplification; we urgently need to teach our children to understand *COMPLEX* systems - soil, forests, oceans, society, finance...'
Great from
@GeorgeMonbiot
w/my fab
@theRSAorg
colleague
@Josie_Warden
#RSAfoodfuture
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‘To save high streets we must invest in our towns as community hubs as much as sites of retail’
- Sir John Timpson on
#r4today
;
Arts venues, museums, libraries, creative empty space use, public art & performance, green spaces & the historic environment can all contribute hugely
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‘If you come from the arts, go and connect to colleagues in health and social care;
Know your patch - the arts/cultural provision, meet your
#Linkworkers
;
And - make things happen!’
Lord Howarth, co-Chair of the APPG on
#ArtsHealthWellbeing
, at the
#CreativeHealthConference
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Quick personal update - after nearly 3 brilliant years at
@heritagelottery
, in a month's time I depart to take an exciting new role as Senior Manager: Research & Policy at
@ace_national
. Sure I'll have a great final 4 weeks here, and looking forward v.much to new duties, too.
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'The NHS can never have too much creativity, and COVID proves this more than anything'
Powerful, inspiring reflections from
@doctor_oxford
at the launch of the National Centre for
#CreativeHealth
@TheNCCH
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This is the same view from the other side -
#HebdenBeck
viewed from St George's St, by
#HebdenBridge
Town Hall - flowing very high and fast, probably 1.5m above normal high levels
#StormCiara
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I have immense sympathy for those on the missing exploration sub, and their loved ones;
Thinking of this week's appalling migrant boat disaster, I wish the huge global effort swiftly, rightly mobilised to save the Titan could be the norm for all lives in peril at sea
#Newsnight
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"The reason people are 'self-diagnosing' is because *they can't get an appointment* for an actual diagnosis"
Philippa Gregory tears apart Mel Stride MP's ostriching about the mental health crisis
#bbcqt
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Follow-up on
@paulmasonnews
's point on politicians' vested interests in NHS privatisation - here's a list...
#bbcqt
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'A new study of 6,710 people found that engaging with the arts every few months or more lowered the risk of dying early by 31%.'
Great to see
@Daisy_Fancourt
&
@andrewp_steptoe
's
@bmj_latest
study reported widely on
#r4today
#bbcnews
#itvnews
. Great quote from
@theartofgp
, too!
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Baffled and disappointed that
#r4today
has omitted from its opening bulletin last night’s shock decision to ban
#ExtinctionRebellion
from protesting *anywhere* in London. Surely this is newsworthy?!
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This is
#HebdenBeck
flowing under
#PackhorseBridge
, viewed from Bridge Gate in
#HebdenBridge
. Water about 1.5m above very high levels. Note the heaving swell of the water as it hits the bridge - which was swept away in the 2012
#floods
. Ducks aren't keen
#Flooding
#StormCiara
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Absurd attack on
@ExtinctionR
from a former counter-terrorism spook (now think-tank shill) on
#r4today
, calling them 'a hardcore anarchist group' who want to 'destroy our social order'.
There's no bigger threat to our social order than climate catastrophe.
#ExtinctionRebellion
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Disappointed to hear
#Looknorth
#bbcnews
say ‘Peter Sutcliffe terrorised not only sex workers, but ordinary women’ - quite dehumanising of a role that many women find themselves in.
How about instead saying, ‘Sutcliffe terrorised women across the North, including sex workers’?
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Really great, yet again, to see
#c4news
airing reports led by people with learning difficulties and disabilities -
COVID has hit these communities so hard, but all-too-often such vital voices are woefully absent from coverage and debate
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Bless this little munchkin, channeling the nation's joy!
#ENGSWE
#WEURO2022
#WEURO22
#Lionessess
#SweetCaroline
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A surreal privilege to interrupt an afternoon
#WFH
to be interviewed (alongside
@AliceMayMeasom
&
@KatePahl
) by
#c4news
- about the magical/mysterious moonlight flugelhornist of
#HebdenBridge
;
Many thx
@clarefallon
& team for coming to discuss the power of music under
#lockdown
!
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A big admirer of
@HOME_mcr
's work, and so doubly alarmed & disappointed at the cancellation of this event with Palestinian artists.
Claims to be 'politically neutral' seem odd - HOME is widely lauded for hosting politically engaged work across all art-forms (eg these from 2023)
This April, we're celebrating Palestinian voices, with readings from Don’t Look Left by
@atefabusaif
, plus other poetry & writing, performed by special guests Ahmed Nehad, Shamshad Khan,
@kamilashamsie
, Maxine Peake, Kingsley Ben-Adir & others.
Book now >
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*AMAZING* commute for my first day at
@bradford2025
-
Boarding the 'Branwell Brontë' bus and crossing the wiley, windy moors to Keighley, for a planning day at the splendid Cliffe Castle Museum!
#Bradford2025
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Confined residents of Siena, Italy singing together through windows.
A profound and beautiful example of how the arts can foster hope, solidarity, connection, resolve and resilience in the face of the
#CoronavirusPandemic
#covid19UK
A Siena, città alla quale sono molto legato, si sta in casa ma si canta insieme come se si fosse per la strada. Mi sono commosso
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'Is it raining? I hadn't noticed'
#KolindaGrabarKitarovic
#ZlatkoDalic
#FourWeddingsAndAFuneral
#FRACRO
#FrancevsCroatia
#WorldCupFinal
#WorldCup
#Rusia2018
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Deeply disappointing, union-averse
#SundayMorning
#Raworth
visit from David Lammy -
I'm speechless to hear him describe the proposed action of BA/
@GMB_union
workers as 'wrong', despite acknowledging their pay has already been *CUT* by 10% in cash terms, even *BEFORE* inflation!
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"It's a kind of activism, to reconnect yourself with the age-old practices that are a celebration of our collective human experience.”
I've previewed
@Ben_Edge_Art
&
@MuseumofBritish
's new
#RitualBritain
exhibition on UK calendar customs for
@thequietus
.
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'Given what the pandemic has shown us about the use of technology, Zoom meetings etc, there's really no longer a need for
#HS2
'
Great point from
@stophs2
campaigner Frank Partridge; HS2 was highly flawed anyway, but is now a project for a Britain that no longer exists
#Newsnight
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@MichaelRosenYes
There are some tremendously named villages hereabouts in West Yorkshire - Friendly, Slack... and who could forget Idle?
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My neighbouring passenger is trying to playfully bite the scenery as it zips by.
In short, this is THE BEST JOURNEY EVER
#traindog
🚂🐕
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Utterly chilling to hear Simon Clarke say that energy companies shouldn't face a
#WindfallTax
because
'They need those profits for the next generation of oil and gas extraction'
Hurtling into the hell of a burning world
#r4today
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Singapore has announced investment in the arts to build morale and build community capability, as the city recovers from the shock of
#coronavirus
#COVID19
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A majestic sunset this evening 🌅
...And if you look closely, you'll see a barn owl perched on the post in the foreground 🦉
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"As a medical student, I was intensely aware that I was being taught about body parts & how to fix them -
But not about human beings... the person whose narrative isn't being heard"
Really moving call to intertwine medicine, listening & story-telling, from
@doctor_oxford
#CHW21
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'Wages aren't causing inflation... People aren't buying too many things; there is no excess demand in the system.
'Because of this, raising
#InterestRates
- which aims to 'tame demand' - not only won't work; it risks triggering recession'
@MazzucatoM
on
#Newsnight
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@jeffvandermeer
What you describe is not unfamiliar from my own visits... A few years back I also did some work with teachers/arts educators in Blackpool, and heartbreakingly they reported it not being unheard of for kids on some of the most deprived estates to have never even seen the sea
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‘Getting creative for health and wellbeing‘
- My new
@ace_national
blog looking at how the arts/culture are supporting wellbeing under
#lockdown
;
And the contributions being made by
#CREATEWELL2020
#AgeOfCreativity
#GetCreative
#MentalHealthAwareness
.
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This is my Mum setting off for her booster jab this afternoon -
She'll be 81 next month - I'm forlornly hoping to have inherited some of the same 'anti-ageing' genes;
Or, at least, the portrait in the attic...!
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"Why is it OK to say to workers to take the pain of the crisis - but it's not ok to say that profiteering companies should pay for the crisis?"
Bang on from
@UniteSharon
@unitetheunion
on
#bbclaurak
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SOURCES:
3 months to build a roughly 10-acre solar farm (US figures, but likely similar):
This one actually indicates a UK wind farm can be fast-tracked end to end in 12 months, at a push!
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Extremely powerful, moving
#Newsnight
interview with Tracey Emin -
On sexual abuse, surviving cancer, art, mortality, the irrepressible joy of life, and Edvard Munch
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There's a real electricity in the Hebden Bridge air tonight, in anticipation of the
#HappyValley
finalé - almost a Christmas Eve feel!
With perfect timing, a police car prowled by as I paused in the square to try and capture the atmosphere.
Keep safe, Sgt Cawood!
🚔🌅🍿😢
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Found a lovely Irish session at the
@famous_albert
, Hebden Bridge yesterday - takes place every Tuesday night
☘️🎻🪕🪗🪈🇮🇪
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'Sometimes I'll finish my daughter's leftovers, or not eat at all... If she's not home, I'd never put the heating on; I'd wear a jacket...'
On the brink of tears at this
#Newsnight
testimony from Dominic Watters, a Kent single dad living on
#UniversalCredit
&
#FoodBanks
.
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Wow. Vienna alone builds more council houses per year (7000) than the whole of the UK (6000).
Our politicians should be weeping with shame and crimson with embarrassment. Time to step up to the plate.
#CouncilHouse100
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They’re now edging along the neighbourhood - we can just hear the mellow strains of ‘Autumn Leaves’ ever-more-faintly/gently cascading across the valley
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Apple's Chief Design Officer/New RCA Chancellor Jonathan Ive calls for a shift from STEM to STEAM
@CultureLearning
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Excellent
#DesertIslandDiscs
with Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham -
Floella Benjamin should be much more widely celebrated as a key British anti-racist figure - broadcasting deep & abiding joy into living rooms for millions of children through the 80s
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£7,400 *per household* in England is far, FAR too low a threshold to qualify for
#FreeSchoolMeals
- this isn't hardship, but DESTITUTION;
Grim that 1.9m children (21% of the English pupils) are still in this bracket.
*ALL* families on
#UniversalCredit
should get FSM
#r4today
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'We don't want words, we want actions': down at
#ParliamentSquare
for
#climatemarch
#Climate2014
http://t.co/r4SMLftkQO
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