The clear task for most of us in the arts is to stop being entitled ivory towers contributing to rampant social inequalities, and start pulling together to create a new National Arts Service that is free and available to anyone who needs it

White folks wanting to help? Here’s your one freebie. Then I’m off to play video games & enjoy a gummy. So pull up a chair:

The Met has said there will be a ‘post event’ investigation carried out - THAT MEANS LOOKING IN SOCIAL MEDIA please please don’t share images of protesters including yourself

What I would give to see the Churchill statue come down this afternoon!

Contrast David Olusoga’s principled case for the removal of the Colston statue (after attempts to relocate or contextualize were ignored) with the nonsensical Trumpian spew exiting the mouth of the Home Secretary x.com/skynews/status…

Just in case you missed this catalogue of shit from our overlords......

Black Minds Matter are providing FREE therapy sessions for Black people in the UK with Black therapists. Please pass this along. These are difficult days for many of us > blackmindsmatteruk.com 🖤

So just to check: sitting in a room with people is not safe until there’s a card reader

“I’m sorry if you feel you were deported.”

Theatre needs help, and now Oliver Dowden Rishi Sunak > thestage.co.uk/opinion/the-st… #Theatre

I need an app that connects you to someone who just finished the same book you did so you can talk about it.

The propaganda in Portland has really gotten out of hand. The local government is LYING. #PortlandKidnappings #PortlandProtests

Fifteen years ago today, police shot and killed Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station. The woman who was gold commander of that operation, Cressida Dick, is now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Boomer Derangement Syndrome strikes again. It doesn’t affect all Boomers of course, but if you notice the signs or symptoms, such as inability to empathise with anyone at apparently any time ever, it’s very important you refrain from voting

✨"15 Myths. 15 Plays. 15 Heroines."✨ 🎥Filmed live in Jermyn Street Theatre by Digital Theatre+ and then streamed directly to you, #JST15Heroines - new plays adapted from Ovid - runs 9-14 November online. THE WAR ⚔️ THE DESERT 🏜️ THE LABYRINTH 🧵 🎟️Tickets! ow.ly/Ixnu50C9nxu

INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT FROM A COALITION OF DANCE, PERFORMANCE AND THEATRE ASSOCIATIONS REGARDING THE PLANNED CUTS TO THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON Uni of Roehampton