For all you followers who don’t live in England and think that they all talk like characters in a Hugh Grant movie. This kid.

"It's the last acceptable discrimination" Great thread from Tony Schumacher on this heartbreaking but totally unsurprising report. Also glad to know I'm not alone in being told to change my Brummie accent and hide my background or otherwise I "wouldn't do well in media".

This is spot on.

Mood:

Thank you James Graham so, so much for speaking up on this. There's so many barriers (material, psychological, geographic) for wc writers. Especially in the Midlands where we seem to lag behind other areas in schemes/training opps for local talent 💔 theguardian.com/media/article/…

The TV industry will say they need more working class creatives/stories and set up panels/schemes as if the problem is finding them, as if it’s never occurred to us to work in telly Truth is we’re here We pitch you stuff We try to work with you You turn us/our stories down

Lucy Beaumont: "It's hard when you're writing a script with authentically working class voices that you know people from that background around the country will love but you're pitching it to a commissioner who's never left Highgate" #EdTVFest

I've been quiet about the talk of advancing the working class in my industry. I appreciate the sentiment, and I believe it's sincere from most. I just hope long term, it isn't just the latest fad from the same talking heads to be forgotten about when the next one comes along.

Just turned on the tv to catch my first ten seconds in which Trump said "in Springfield, the people are eating the dogs, eating the pets" and it turns out ten seconds is enough American debate for me.

Siri, show me 100 seconds of TV to perfectly illustrate how an elite class has been able to rule & own a land & its people, simply by ingraining in generations that a posh voice & supreme confidence is all that’s needed to be in charge.

Every kid in this trailer has a middle class accent. Why do kids w working class/regional accents only get roles in bleak social realist films? Why does RP = “the norm” in these films, when stats show 48% of UK is wc? When is “representation matters” gonna be more than a slogan?

"Why the Dems lost" in a single post. A FB friend who lives in a nice bit of LA posted this. No clue it screams "privileged, Ivy League, white female professional Dem voter lectures blue collar driver about his politics while being ferried around by him". The arrogance 🤦‍♀️

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The finest summary of The Salt Path drama on Twitter!

Imagine you replaced “working class” with any other marginalized group in this tweet - there would be hell to pay. But rampant classism is still totally acceptable.