Ffs. Here’s WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 with a piece falling hook, line & sinker for Govt spin on Universal Credit. It’s not up to local news, & esp publicly-funded Local Dem Reporters, to help the Tories polish their turds & justify austerity. Via #spycops Inquiry Nerd walesonline.co.uk/news/world-new…

I’m sorry Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook, did someone just refer to the EU Parliament as “unelected leaders?” Then what was that EU election all about? How did those MEPs manage to sneak into the chamber to protest? None of this adds up! #BrexitParty #Tantrum

Vital PSA. (See then if/whenever you can!)

HIGHLY recommended!

I genuinely hate this. These are not ‘British values’, they are human and democratic values. We do not get to assume ownership of them, especially when our politicians blatantly neglect them.

Lot of great points here, on something I think about a lot. “What kind of music do you like?”, “oh, a bit of everything” is the new norm for music lovers, and we’re all the richer for it.

Stopping climate change is only expensive compared to an imaginary world where climate change doesn't exist. It's *incredibly cheap* compared to the actual cost of a 3 degree warmer world.

This video should be playing on every screen on the planet.

please watch. please listen closely. if anyone has any information on this man / a link to his go fund me please let me know. this is absolutely not okay. we will not be silenced.

The Theatre Industry is dying, and it’s dying now. Not everyone likes theatre, but if you watch Film/TV this is going to affect you, because much of what & who you watch had their origins in theatre, whether it’s Fleabag or the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games [THREAD]

A Statement from the Royal Exchange Theatre - July 2020 >> rxtheat.re/July20RET

Dear Oliver Dowden, have you even begun to grasp the scale of our arts crisis? | Michael Billington theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul…

National Theatre has confirmed to Sky News 400 casual staff jobs will be cut with casual front of house and backstage staff told they will be paid until the end of August

Here's a nice little case study in what used to be called 'fake news'. It may be worth reading if you've seen that '200,000 lockdown deaths' number. This is a short thread on how the tweet below is wrong, and how the Telegraph headline it misquotes was wrong.

All this talk of the BBC axing left wing comedians in favour of some right wing voices reminded me of the end of this Stewart Lee piece from 2013.

A good breakdown of how the right manufactured the ‘BBC war on comedy’ narrative (from Stewart Lee’s newsletter).

Bristol/Cardiff! Selling one ticket for falcotronic Mclusky’s SOLD OUT show at the Fleece this Friday. £20, no fees. Me and a mate will be driving from Cardiff and could squeeze another in if that helps anyone?

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall brat girl confirmed