Some weekend reading for you: Alex Dueben interviewed me recently for Crime Reads, talking about the Dog Sitter Detective, Can You Solve the Murder?, and my wide-ranging, idiosyncratic career…
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The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee have published a report on AI, copyright and the creative industries, which includes a number of welcome recommendations.
Read about it here 👇
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
Women swimmers smiling and waving in an indoor pool: selfie, splashing swimmer, lineup at pool edge, team in pink caps.
Help us reach our Winter Swim Fundraiser goal! 🌊✨ We've been raising funds to keep our classes affordable at @BramleyBaths.bsky.social. We've already raised £2500. We need your support to spread the joy of community synchro swimming. Can you share this post or donate? https://bit.ly/JustGiveMermaids
The Colour of Magic. A tatty paperback was being passed around my sixth form college. And then I passed it to my Dad and started his obsession.
A friend of writers in the #HouseOfLords - thanks to our Chair Tim Clement-Jones for highlighting the need for an #AI license to better protect the work of creators 🙏
We're keenly awaiting the government's report and economic analysis of #ArtificialIntelligence and #Coypright, due later this month.
The last six weeks threw a lot at us. Snow, tornadoes, family health stuff. We had to postpone twice, which we hate doing.
We're back. March schedule is set. And Supervisor Olive has opinions about all of it.
What's keeping YOU going lately?
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I want to know what that tangerine twat was going to say about the North because I sense it might be grounds for sending in Sean Bean with a fookin’ big sword. The bastard.
www.tickettailor.com/events/ilkle... 6th March 5-6.30. Brilliant Bradford Lasses. Record holders, explorer, entrepreneur, childcare pioneer, 1st Black NHS matron, creatives, suffragettes, sports and more. Discover, enjoy a cuppa and nominate your own inspirational Bradford Lass. With me 'Mrs Norton'
The UK must stand unequivocally against the reckless and illegal action taken by the US and Israel against Iran - publish the initial legal advice on the American/Israeli strikes and commit to a vote in the Commons before any UK involvement in this war.
Playwrights call for greater creative risk following Jennie Lee lecture last week
Read this story in @thestage.co.uk with quotes from WGGB Theatre Chairs @mogster.bsky.social and @sonalidb.bsky.social and former WGGB President David Edgar
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‘We knocked out our regime change candidates by mistake’
A 3-year-old gazing up at an out-of-frame movie screen in absolute rapturous wonderment, clutching a paper popcorn bag, bathed in the red glow of movie magic
Took Anya to her first-ever movie-theatre movie today (Snow White at Film Forum, obvs) and have you EVER seen the magic of cinema so fully & rapturously embodied. Ted Sarandos currently running for cover. Nicole Kidman feeling a great shift in the energy of the world.
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The announcement of the 2026 Tinniswood Award winner at the #BBCAudioDramaAwards this evening was a special one
It saw the late Oliver Emanuel honoured for ‘One Hundred and Fifty Days’, an "extraordinary and generous gift of a play"
Read more here 🔽
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Fuuuuuck.
BREAKING: Trump Trademarks “WWIII”
At this year's Jennie Lee Lecture, @nationaltheatre.org.uk Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham highlighted the crisis in new writing for theatre and the need for a renewed national commitment to back creative risk, something WGGB supports
Our response in full:
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My own small tribute to Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant #RedDwarf www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ro...
So, is anyone else experiencing this with elderly parents? Mum keeps calling me in a tizz about the cost of her insurance or tax bill etc. Convinced that she is being scammed.
I panic, dash over and check the bill and have to tell her “that’s just what it costs these days”. Repeatedly.
Are Reform hoping that if they whine enough we'll vote for them just so they'll shut up? Little brats.
Pretty uncomfortable w the implication in some of the chat today that British Muslims’ concerns are somehow less electorally valid than those of people from other backgrounds. Quite a lot of reductive implications that gaining the support of Muslim voters is somehow dishonest or gaming the system.
Twat dooming Reform? (4,7)
Reform win historic first seat. What this will mean for reshaping the landscape of British politics.
Greens win historic first by-election. What this will mean for Reform.
All media. All morning.
Worth noting that even if Labour and the Greens had split the vote exactly evenly – the absolute worst case scenario for the stop Reform majority in the seat – Matt Goodwin still didn’t have enough votes to sneak a victory.
Sweet as a nut.
started a rewatch of the original MUPPET SHOW and daily confronting "oh yeah i used to have nightmares about this" and a long-buried sexual awakening, often in the same skit
On fleek. As I believe the kids no longer say.
