The UK's creative businesses are ambitious. 75% plan to grow in the next year, compared to half of SMEs overall. Read our Access to Finance report, produced with Creative England (Archive), which highlights the potential of our nation's creative industries thecreativeindustries.co.uk/uk-creative-ov…

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The fastest growing jobs in the creative industries last year were tech-related. The film, TV and music, crafts and architecture workforces also grew. Jobs in the performing and visual arts sectors fell. buff.ly/2Kt1w9a

Some cracking events at this year's Velvet Coalmine festival. As poet in residence I'll be reading with rugby legend #JasonLeonard, ukulele genius JeffJapers and finishing off with the powerful #ZimVoices @JLeonardAtlas Literature Wales

"At small venues the proximity to the stage lends a glorious intimacy to the event, but watching a band in their earlier days is a still deeper thrill; watching creative talents, effervescing, emerging." ilovemanchester.com/2018/10/08/man… via I Love Manchester

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It’s important to champion women in the live sector- so that others can see it and then do it too. Congrats to Francesca Tee

Never let this video die. x.com/rudeboyspurs/s…

said how thrilled he was for my success. Keith, I only met you once, but I shed a tear at the news of your death. In our business, there are no prizes for being kind, but if there was, that Grammy would be yours.

Grammys President Neil Portnow, who said women in the music industry should “step up,” has stepped down—and been replaced by a woman p4k.in/3KEtihR

Have you heard? We're calling on parliament to declare an environment and climate emergency. RT if you're with us ↓

Nigel Farage funding secrets revealed - Channel 4 News investigation tonight at 7pm

The critique of Nigel Farage on the BBC is often weak and shallow and misses the point to why he is so dangerous. However there was an exception which was that time when Russell Brand exposed Farage for exactly what he is live on #BBCqt

Theresa May didn't publicly break down over Windrush, or Grenfell, or disabled people having their benefits cut, or children driven into poverty. In the end, she only publicly shed a tear over her own career.

the room next door - Boris Johnson Again

Rage and shame at what my country has allowed itself to become, at the government that's appointed itself, at the contemptible worthlessness of the opposition, at the misery so many people are suffering, at the worse that is to come.

...deep beneath the ground, dig them AHHHGGHGGHHGGGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGFHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHGGHHHHGHHHGGGHHHGHHHHHHHHHGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGG

If you voted for Brexit because you're against 'unelected bureaucrats' & in favour of 'restoring power' to the UK parliament, you must be feeling pretty miffed this weekend. By rights, you should be leading the protests not nodding along with the liars & cheats condemning them.

So my son was born here and Boris Johnson wasn't but my son is a "foreigner" who needs to apply for settled status? That's a very odd situation for someone to be in who was just "unlucky" enough to have parents who hail from somewhere else.