Huge congratulations Mark Gatiss 💙 🍾🥂👏💕 xx

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Nicky Wire (MSP)
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It seemed everything was getting better last week. My brilliant husband was recovering from the cardiac arrest that very nearly killed him. He’d finally got home from hospital.

Then his heart stopped again.

We were in bed. I was the only one there.

All he had.

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Our investigative journalist Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social explains how a luxury dog food entrepreneur teamed up with a former Tory MP to bag £258m of PPE contracts – and bought a mansion just weeks later 💰
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Footprint Scenery Limited are looking for a Production Manager of all scenery construction and prop making projects in their workshop and on site when required with a strong focus on sustainability.

Find out more and apply here: abtt.org.uk/jobs/productio…

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Why do the women have to run in swimming costumes? That’s got to chafe.

Check out the Maesteg Choir wearing cap lamps and overalls in a photo taken in a concert hall in the 1940s. 🎵

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Last night, some of us made our way to see an excellent sensory-adapted performance of #Nye at the National Theatre . It's a brilliant example of inventive storytelling and an important account of the life of the founder of the NHS.

Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/how-br…

From Thursday April 25th, Streatham Theatre Company are trialling daytime play-readings, aimed at adults who are free during the day and may be feeling isolated. Come along if you like reading plays, or if you'd just like to listen. More at streathamtheatre.org.uk/event/play-rea…

I've just been to see #Nye at the NT. Bloody hell, what an incredible show. Delighted that somshouted 'don't vote Tory!' at the end and the whole theatre cheered.

'London has changed in so many ways since Dickens' time - but the appalling inequality remains' writes director Ian Rickson

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64 years ago today

Paul Robeson at the Prince of Wales Theatre, 8th April 1960

#paulrobeson #princeofwalestheatre #cardiff #wales #cardiff musichistory

Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵

Feargal Sharkey Surfers Against Sewage

The mood of the FT comment section on Thames Water

The PLANNED COLLAPSE of the NHS deserves to be viewed as a crime against SOCIETY by the BRITISH RULING CLASS.

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…