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Been reliving this show in my head non-stop since Saturday. Just unbelievably good.

I wrote this for the Southwark Solidarity 🍉 newsletter about the pay deal we’ve just accepted. Disappointing, but ground to build on. (Excuse the repeated second para. Obviously my prose and insights are so vital that they bear repeating.)

These things are an absolute nightmare to parse in metal band wiki entries

Reading about Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle, in David Edgerton’s The Shock of the Old. Struck by how close this description feels to modern critiques of industrial slaughter and meat production.

The house in Beauty and the Beast is the original template for smart homes.

Sad to have missed their b2b set at Primavera this summer

This is happening tomorrow evening. Hugely important campaign for early education provision in Southwark. I’ll be there (and speaking) on behalf of SouthwarkNEU.

High speed ratio

The US and the EU need to speak up now. Cutting off water and food supplies to a whole civilian population is a crime and cannot be tolerated for a second. Now is the time to stop such actions and put an end to this before it starts.

You want to know how I feel about all this ink I have to spill about the Middle East & its conflicts? I wish I didn't have to do any of it. I wish I could be in Tehran, Beirut, Tel Aviv or Gaza, writing about poetry, cinema and wine, just as I did when I was a teen in Tehran

Education takes around Gove are baffling if you look at the massive recruitment and retention crisis that hollowed out the teaching profession since his time at DfE Celebrating PISA results as schools collapse is the policy equivalent of cheering shuffleboard wins on the Titanic

One of my earliest political memories is thinking that if your name was Major, you must be really good (majorly so).

Meet Joan. She has been part of ⁦LetsTalkAboutCough⁩ for 4 years & has shared her experiences of #chroniccough with such generosity in the hope that others won’t have to go through the same. Thanks ⁦Phil Cunliffe⁩ ⁦BBC North West⁩ ⁦SICK! Festival⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

Amazing to see Joan and Jacky featured here, talking about their experience of and work with chronic cough. I learned so much working with them both last year while making #OneInTen for LetsTalkAboutCough.

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Since 2010/11, 85% of schools in Southwark have faced cuts -£39.4M cuts since 2010/11 -£1,135 cuts per pupil since 2010/11 Challenge your parliamentary candidates to stand up for children, schools and educators #StopSchoolCuts #VoteEducation #FreeSchoolMealsForAll #GE2024

Although that blue *did* mean that I had to explain to some people that we weren’t campaigning for the Tories

when you see a commentator saying that "normal decent people are being slurred as the far right", what you are reading is someone who basically agrees with the rioters but doesn't themselves have the nerve to smash the windows of a phone shop (or who has a nicer job to lose).

We are delighted our audio experience One in Ten has been shortlisted for #APAs24 - a testament to the amazing creative work of our participants and collaborators inc Rachel Bower Kieran Lucas Theo Whitworth Siobhan Ludlow Rachel Dockry Vocal Listen here letstalkaboutcough.net/one-in-ten/

So proud and grateful to have won the AudioUK grassroots production award sponsored by Morley Radio for our audio experience One in Ten. Thanks to all our incredible participants and collaborators, especially Kieran Lucas Theo Whitworth Rachel Bower #APAs24