🌟 Lughnasadh Festival 🌟 We are really excited to announce an eclectic music and arts festival in the lush grounds of Forgan Arts Centre, Newport-on-Tay 📅 Saturday, 3 August ⏰ 2-9pm 📍 Forgan Arts Centre, Newport-on-Tay, NE Fife Tickets: forganartscentre.co.uk/lughnasadh-fes… 🧵

Today, The Guardian dedicates several pages to voices from the ground in Gaza. I am very grateful to those who spoke to me, in impossible circumstances, from tents and pavements and street corners. All the interview are in print today.

Exciting! ⛺️

Hetain Patel’s playful (and political) exhibition about who gets to be called creative, part of the Hobby Cave project supported by @CreativeLivesCL Come As You Really Are review – Heaven is a Ford Escort clad in swirly carpet theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

“… my new life has come to meet the old one. And there is work to be done.”. Beautiful writing. 👇

These “numpties who like live music” have pulled off a thriving gig economy. Nice cameos for my niece and nephew too:)

👏 The magic of Andy Murray is that he always took the game, and not himself, too seriously.

Untitled, mixed media (eyeliner). The artist in her expressionist phase. Not commissioned.

I got chatting to a bin man at 8am this morning. He told me he’s been doing the job for 43 years and absolutely LOVES it. How many of us have that job satisfaction? Give them the pay rise.

Random ask of the day but is anyone on here from my lovely gang of twitter pals going to be in Campbelltown or Machrihanish in the next couple of days? 🙏

I wasn't born in the U.K. But then neither was Boris Johnson, Joanna Lumley, or tea.

From Home Is Not A Place my collab with @johnypitts

A statement from UNHCR and UK for UNHCR.

My son thinks that I work on the train/ choo choo (as in, I’m the driver or ticket inspector). While this illusion of being important persists, I will enjoy one of the few perks of commuting.

The gofund me was for £500, but they've now raised £168k. It says everything. A symbol of resistance against the fascist thugs & positive action by those who genuinely care about British communities. #spellowlibrary

Most of me wants to boycott this platform - and I probably will go that way - but part of me also doesn’t want to avoid a familiar park bench because (another) self-entitled, shouty man is taking up all the space. I don’t want to let him have it.