Robin C-F

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Individual subscription to our Danish counterpart Kulturmonitor? £580 a year.

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This is an excellent tool from @campaignforthearts.org which helps you to respond to the government's charter review consultation on the BBC, while being able to see CFTA's responses alongside www.campaignforthearts.org/reports/a-st...

Working on the agenda for a one-day conference I'm organising, and the main question I have of my past self is why I didn't organise a two-day conference

Timothée Chalamet triggers backlash over ballet and opera remarks In an interview, the Oscar-nominee danced into some online controversy after claiming no one cares about ballet and opera.

Extraordinary for someone in one art form to dismiss the talent, skill, achievements &hard work in other art forms. Opera & ballet have been around a while, are constantly evolving and will be making great work for years to come. He is of course welcome to try! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Opera is not dying, Timothée, it's thriving. In Europe alone, 14m a year attend (2.5m under 25s) worth €10bn. Since 2000 La Traviata had 30,000 performances. In its lifetime it's been seen by half a billion people and recorded 291 times. Check back in 180yrs to see how Marty Supreme is doing, yeah?

I'm fairly sure this whole middle eastern conflict was prompted by me moving my NEST pension into the Higher Risk fund

I don't think there's a single one of the numerous posts on your feed in the past 24 hours where you're not berating someone for something, I genuinely hope your day / life gets better - take good care

No, I've just had a scroll through your various replies to people and I don't think today will be the day I try and persuade an unpersuadable anonymous account on the socials of anything. BUT, what I AM going to do is have a cup of tea. Have a lovely day!

Hi, anonymous angry person!

All observers are trained, and that training is compliant with the law.

Accredited observers observe for a period of time, they see what they see, and then on exiting the polling station they record their observations immediately in a centralised system.

I have a personal view on that which is that our 'new'(ish) standard polling booth design has traded off some privacy in the (important) interests of convenience and accessibility - hey, all my views are personal views. Good statement from them.

I hadn't seen that, thank you!

My guess would be they would say they're contributing to public knowledge around election integrity at the key moment when more eyes are on elections than usual.

They've obviously decided to hunker down right now, and on balance I can't really blame them for that tbh.

I will never forget they promised that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows ever. They promised.

I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is

the original is like this 👇

(Nice. A question that beautifully encapsulates the thought process behind everyone who sends press releases out with all-caps subject lines 😂)

And FWIW, all of the incidents of family voting I saw last May were white people, usually of retirement age

Observers check polling stations are accessible, properly signed, that campaigning isn't taking place, that accessibility aides are available to voters, how many are turned away for ID - all manner of boring stuff, vital to democracy. They don't deserve to be Social Media Whipping Boy of the Day.

It is the role of independent election observers to impartially observe and report on the election that happens - the election as it is run by the Returning Officer and their staff.

It is not their role to act as eyes and ears of the authorities while the voting is happening - MCC should know that

The boring but important thing is that most councils now use pop-up polling booths that contain three desks of one height, and a fourth desk of a lowered height.

For accessibility reasons the booths are shallower than they used to be, and the curtain has been removed - so it's easier to lean over

I feel for the team at Democracy Volunteers, paid staff and volunteers, who gave their time to observe a democratic process and tell us what they saw.

I was a volunteer last May. I was very surprised by the levels of family voting in County Durham - this is what I said at the time.

Not a spokesperson for DV. As it's been their standard practice (without incident) at several elections to release a short immediate statement followed by a fuller report, I imagine the answer is the short statement is released quickly to land in the period where the media have little to report on

Not a spokesperson for DV, but have volunteered with them on one election.

They had observers in polling stations so they have evidence.

Family voting is when one person looks at another person's ballot or directs them how to vote. It is easy to see.

MCC disagree because they're embarrassed.

And that's that 13 hour workday over, made possible thanks to the diligent support of Greggs - both their carby sustenance, but also the particular joy of the lady behind the counter saying "so you've got cheesy balls and a tuna crunch". She knew what she was doing. She knew.

Do it! Don't be a wuss. 1.44mb at a time, do it!

I have not, I should! They also have loads of them, presumably a full set, at Schiphol.

Yes, consider me the ghost of Christmas Future. I picked up two on a work trip, and then the eBay alert was set up... 😬

"Which route did you get that on, then?"

"Oh just a quick hop over to the Island of Vinted"

You have a sensible pension
They have a portfolio of investments
I have KLM House Number 1 arriving this week

In the local elections last year, DV also raised family voting - I was one of their observers, in an area where Reform won.

Time and again, I saw husband and wife lean over into each other's polling booth and tell each other how to vote.

You are supposed to be able to vote in secret. That's it.

Not at all. DV usually issue an interim statement shortly after polls close, then a fuller report later.

What they said was they saw high levels of family voting - they said that, because they saw it.

Family voting is usually easy to see, and should be stopped by polling station staff.

Norman Lebrecht suffering any kind of consequence for his toxic approach to music “journalism” is a vibe shift that I will celebrate.