David Walliams is trending - many of you know that I own and run a children's bookshop now and there are so many amazing authors out there whose work often flies under the radar as Walliams is considered the must read. So now I'm going to share some recomendations!

Our message to survivors of domestic abuse tonight is clear: if you need support, Refuge is here for you, round the clock. We will believe you and we will support you. You are not alone.

Over the last two weeks I've had the absolute honour of (with my actor's hat on) being in a cast Shakespeare’s Globe that was made up of ⅔ #Ceebies TV presenters and so this is a thread 🧵 of what we as actors can learn from a 🌍 that is very different in many respects to ours...

Owami has been missing for over a month. I can only imagine what her loved ones are going through. The Met has released new CCTV images of Owami—if you have any information, contact the police or go to crimestoppers-uk.org. news.met.police.uk/news/owami-dav…

Sad news for us but amazing news for Bradford 2025 We will miss you Shanaz Gulzar xx

Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget today is a complete failure for those of us hoping for any kind of meaningful financial help to get us through this winter (1/5)

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"Most men who want to abuse women don't feel the need to change their gender to do it". Nicola Sturgeon hits back at JK Rowling's claims she's destroying women’s rights telling LBC "abusive men are the risk to women, not trans women" @GinaDavidson | l-bc.co/3V8zyFb

Just want to salute EVERYONE who is still standing in the arts. Living through a terrible identity crisis in which none of us knew if we’d be back & lots of us weren’t, gritting our teeth, finding new ways, & filling in the flipping form. The world will always need stories…#npo

I see the ‘I’m all for not-London having more but not if London gets less’ articles are still coming. Which is an argument against redistribution of public funds, basically. If £43m in arts funding to not-London is this big a problem no wonder we can’t get train lines built here

Producer, Factory International: North West. Closing: 04 Jan 2023. Salary: £35,000-£39,000. #artsjobs dlvr.it/SfcK6k

Gaze into the Manchester sky tomorrow night and you may see beams of light cutting through the air. We're starting the new year by celebrating new life, as Luke Jerram's First Breath opens at Factory International. factoryinternational.org/whats-on/first… 📸 Tomasz Kozak

Well played ⁦Mark Ball⁩

The Princess of Wales looks to be launching a sincere & thoughtful campaign, but it's kind of wild that Sure Start was an evidence-based solution to the problems she's raising, was evaluated and found to be wonderfully successful, and we're sort of pretending it wasn't cut.

Boys will be boys

Welsh artist Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902. She worked in France for most of her career and is known for portraits of female sitters. She was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother Augustus and lover Rodin, and as with many women artists recognised more posthumously.

It takes a special kind of cruelty to see people who have lost everything, and are fleeing for their lives from war, torture and state murder, and think "Hmm, how can we make life even worse for them?"

More than five minutes - that is how long it took Labour MP Jess Phillips to read out the names of women killed in the UK in the last year, where the primary suspect or known killer is a man bbc.in/3yrBtdU

Jarvis Cocker onstage tonight in Manchester just recommended this Factory International factoryinternational.org/whats-on/yayoi… He said the effect was similar to marijuana.

Exciting adventure ahead 💫