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Writer. Director. Theatre maker. (Fidget Theatre. Carriageworks Young Theatre Makers. Anyone who’ll have me.) Leeds with a Dorset lilt.

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I hope as Tommy Robinson flees Dubai he settles in the first safe country he arrives in

02.03.2026 03:44 👍 599 🔁 127 💬 0 📌 0

Just can’t believe that wanting to financially punish women who miscarry didn’t swing the vote for him.

Stupid woke voters.

27.02.2026 09:11 👍 968 🔁 126 💬 15 📌 5

Obviously everyone's going to focus on the Green's victory but it's important not to forget that Matt Goodwin is a terrible person who deserves to never be happy

27.02.2026 08:39 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs After a decade of austerity closed more than 1,000 centres, the government has promised £500m to renew youth services. We tour a glossy new venue in Preston – and a girls-only one in London

‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs

20.02.2026 02:22 👍 84 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 3

Congrats Jo! Looks ace

14.02.2026 16:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Freelancer Loves Being Able To Barely Scrape By Livelihood On Own Schedule

Freelancer Loves Being Able To Barely Scrape By Livelihood On Own Schedule

Freelancer Loves Being Able To Barely Scrape By Livelihood On Own Schedule https://theonion.com/freelancer-loves-being-able-to-barely-scrape-by-livelih-1819579667/

11.02.2026 20:00 👍 1133 🔁 132 💬 13 📌 25
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We all need to be more vocal in supporting arts in our schools. A-level Music is down 43% since 2010, with under 5k in 2024. Only 16% of schools entered students into GCSE Dance, with entries down 59% to 6,723. A-level Dance just 960!

#ArtsInSchools #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

11.02.2026 13:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

When you next hear a billionaire screaming at you that trans people are a “danger to women and girls”, just remember who’s in the Epstein files.

Trans people: zero.
Billionaires: all of them.

02.02.2026 20:14 👍 275 🔁 87 💬 1 📌 1

5PM AND IT'S NOT THAT DARK YET

BOYS WE'RE WINNING THIS

01.02.2026 16:58 👍 439 🔁 19 💬 18 📌 1

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.

Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

21.01.2026 07:16 👍 4150 🔁 1025 💬 218 📌 120

He should be allowed to graduate immediately. There's nothing more for him to learn about art.

20.01.2026 14:25 👍 166 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 1
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"Look, I get it, he's mental but what the fuck do you want me to do?"

- Labour +45%

20.01.2026 10:31 👍 678 🔁 140 💬 6 📌 1
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literally the villain in every movie ever

17.01.2026 22:43 👍 9195 🔁 1681 💬 967 📌 264
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16.01.2026 07:59 👍 2369 🔁 725 💬 56 📌 36

‘Defecting to the reform party’ is a polite euphemism for telling guests at a dinner party that you need to go for a poo.

“I’d love to hear all about your holiday in Sardinia but first I just need to defect to the reform party”

15.01.2026 17:21 👍 273 🔁 83 💬 6 📌 4
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a fluffy kitten sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table Alt: a fluffy kitten sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table

I am on a tight deadline writing the latest youth theatre plays and for some reason constantly checking the doom-laden news in a heightened sense of anxiety is not helping.

14.01.2026 11:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying As women abandon X because of its use to generate non-consensual sexual imagery, the danger is not just what happens to those who stay, but what happens when abusers are left alone on the platform, sa...

Your occasional reminder that it's not the job of women to stay in toxic spaces in order to civilise men. (This piece is written by a woman, btw.) www.independent.co.uk/voices/grok-...

10.01.2026 13:14 👍 212 🔁 41 💬 23 📌 4

Cliff tickler?

08.01.2026 14:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy

07.01.2026 14:48 👍 1492 🔁 539 💬 62 📌 45

My kids call this “plot armour”. Not sure where they got that from. So a cliff-hanger with plot armour? Cliff-hanger with a soft landing?

07.01.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

[starmer at home, curtains drawn, riverdancing expressionlessly as the phone rings off the hook]

03.01.2026 15:36 👍 334 🔁 86 💬 9 📌 1
OF THE EMPIRE

We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

03.01.2026 14:02 👍 1882 🔁 862 💬 13 📌 25
Three dimensional paper artwork created with the pages of a discarded book resembling a deer running amongst pine trees in the moonlight

Three dimensional paper artwork created with the pages of a discarded book resembling a deer running amongst pine trees in the moonlight

Su Blackwell, UK artist who works with disgarded books to create paper sculptures often based on fairy tales and nature
#WomensArt 🎄❄️

20.12.2025 06:59 👍 838 🔁 163 💬 0 📌 9
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And I am here for the downfall of David Walliams

19.12.2025 17:41 👍 66 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

Walliams!!!!!!!!! #KidlitUk #UkKidlit

19.12.2025 16:21 👍 127 🔁 4 💬 26 📌 6
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

16.10.2025 20:58 👍 2751 🔁 1035 💬 50 📌 95

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

11.10.2025 00:32 👍 7058 🔁 1934 💬 14 📌 92
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

06.10.2025 20:48 👍 19753 🔁 7429 💬 137 📌 370

Covid-19 Bereaved Families on today’s ruling ordering PPE Medpro to repay £122m to Govt

“Nobody who had any part to play in the PPE scandal...should have any role in public life. Baroness Mone should have no role in making & passing the laws we all live under. Her title must be revoked immediately"

01.10.2025 21:10 👍 812 🔁 242 💬 12 📌 10
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Oh Mandy … | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine Some of us are old enough to remember where we were every time Peter Mandelson resigned. His departures from high office are like royal weddings: a chance to freeze a moment in our nation’s long story…

Peter Mandelson Sacking Day seems to come around sooner every decade. My SKETCH of Today in "No! Not Peter! Not again?"

11.09.2025 12:31 👍 120 🔁 41 💬 9 📌 5