Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

THREAD🧵: With so many leadership changes and policy u-turns, it is hard to keep track of the promises on which the Conservatives were elected to gov't in 2019.

I have had a detailed look back at their 2019 manifesto. ~AA 1/

My last post here - I'm over on NeedleStrings now, if you know what I mean. Swapping one egotistical billionaire's site for another, yes, but MZ doesn't advertise that he's a$$hole quite so compulsively. I miss a lot of you guys but I ain't coming back.

But of course there's more to the story. Things are still worse than pre-Brexit.

It's now harder for UK firms to obtain CE marks because UK certifying bodies are no longer recognised.

Instead, firms have to locate and deal with an EU-based body.
gov.uk/guidance/ce-ma…

Hello & good morning! A lot of heat and not much light in the last 24 hours about new oil & gas licences in the UK, so let's take a closer look shall we?
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £136,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a #TweetlessTuesday . Let's show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Honestly, would it kill you to keep your thoughts to yourself for 1 damn day? Read a book! 👀 #August1stTweetOutDay

jaw-dropping story from The Intercept - A secretive department of the US government has been planting CYANIDE MINES in the US countryside aimed at coyotes - but taking out people and pets... theintercept.com/2023/07/27/cya…

Twitter's iconic bird isn't the only one disappearing.

👉 Today, one in eight bird species are at risk of extinction.

But we can save them and their habitats – benefiting people and nature across the globe. RT to spread the word! #TwitterX #TwitterLogo

History nerd, raconteur and feral cat rescuer explains the vain, hopeless history of #Musky 's X obsession

Rishi Sunak has claimed that voters are fine with him spending £50,000 a day on this ridiculously large private jet.

If you aren’t fine, RT and tell him to spend his own £720,000,000.

Where is his pay restraint?

Also like if you want him to f** off.

You have paid for the NHS, it needs £36bn to perform at 2010 levels, when it was the best in the world.

Government corruption is £217bn.

There is no money for the NHS because they have stolen it.

This year marks 20 years since the genocide in Darfur began, but the violence continues today.

Please retweet us to help raise awareness of the history of the genocide in Darfur and of the appalling atrocities that are taking place there today.

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

Are you the same guy who dropped his house building targets? Because I’m the guy who started building more council homes than the rest of England combined, exceeded your affordable homes targets & built more homes of any kind than since the 1930s. This is desperate nonsense.

So will Unionist politicians be welcoming this clear benefit to the young people in the North or reject it outright because of where the support originates?

What on earth is ALASTAIR CAMPBELL talking about on #therestispolitics #questiontime ? Sending your children to the House of Lords? No-one has the power to do that, surely?

Observing the devastating fires in Algeria, Sicily, Rhodes etc the fault lines of a political divide that will determine the next years and the unavoidable struggles against apocalypse are already visible. 1/

Read the whole #thread . Chilling

Another unelected cockup merchant with a huge platform to go on haranguing all of us with deranged Brexiteer drivel

Threads is feeling a bit, well, #threadbare , and #Twitter is literally #NotTwitter any more. Maybe I should go check if I still have a life.