Ruth Cooper-Rowan

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.

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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"

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?"

“Artists will pay the price” of ACE application portal meltdown, warns Equity Equity General Secretary Paul W Fleming responds to the outage of Arts Council England’s grant application portal Grantium.

Scary times. Grantium has always been problematic but it was better than nothing at all. The impact of it completely crashing is going to be devastating for the arts sector. Love to those impacted and also love to those at ACE desperately trying to fix it! 💜
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/ar...

DCMS confirms Hodge review will consider Grantium - Arts Professional The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has told Arts Professional that an upcoming review of Arts Council England (ACE) will cover issues relating to its funding portal Grantium, which has...

DCMS confirms Hodge review of ACE will consider Grantium application portal: www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dcms-co...

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

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This really is extraordinary. The trauma this will create for generations to come is incalculable. It has to stop.

Fidget waiting on a project grant decision - they sent the “your decision letter is on Grantium” email this time yesterday. I really wish they hadn’t 🤪

#booksky #writingcommunity

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator

A busy rehearsal room choreographing a fight sequence

Performers taking a bow at Slung Low, Leeds

93 ‘til Infinity R&D came to an end last night with a sharing at Slung Low. What a joy!

Direct inverse correlation

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.

Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.

The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

This looks awesome 🔥 #actors

Welcome to the resistance, <checks cue card> Goldman Sachs

'Move fast and put things back together'

Man on a roadside protest in the US, holding a sign that reads: "I WAS ACCIDENTALLY ADDED TO THIS PROTEST BY A SIGNAL GROUP CHAT"

It's just too good.

For people that think making a phone call is too much effort, subsistence farming is a splendid fit.

First they came for the groceries and I didn't speak.
Then they came for an island full of penguins and I couldn't shut up.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Went to the screening of the last two episodes of Big Boys last night. If you haven’t seen it you should. It’s about student mental health & it packs an emotional punch yet it’s also hilarious and has characters you instantly feel like you know. Got to meet the writer Jack Rooke and CLARA AMFO (😍).

“It’s not even sometimes about saying ‘it gets better’. Sometimes it’s about saying ‘wait, it will be different.’”

Writer and Big Boys creator Jack Rooke speaks to #Newsnight about bereavement and feelings of “injustice”
 
#Newsnight

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Wow. WTF?!