While I’m here, I wonder if @matteveritt.bsky.social could have a listen too please

In The Larder, by Couples Holiday 5 track album

Hi, @robince.bsky.social I’m slightly bias on this as half of them is my cousin but what do you think… couplesholiday.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

YouTube video by PoingPoing John Lewis ad original version

this is how we remember the ’90s 🙂

For the whole of November, we are lifting the 9.30 rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes.

We are doing whatever we can to help people with cost-of-living pressures and make life a little easier. 🐝

I'd recommend the history festival to anyone local - but also to my fellow historians as a really nice thing to do if you're invited.

And if more people in the world were like Tom, and more social enterprises like The Long Table / The Old Dept Store existed then we'd all be in a much better place.

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Beverley Knight and Sharon Rose are to reprise their turns as Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst in suffragette musical Sylvia.

Read more 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/pro...

Exclusive: Andy Burnham’s plan for Britain Inside his Manchester kingdom, Labour’s prince across the water outlines his radical blueprint

"The idea of a government elected on a minority of the vote is untenable." 💯

Thank you @andyburnham.bsky.social for being such a strong and consistent voice for Proportional Representation.

We need a new kind of politics: where no voter or community is left behind.

Exterior of Harbour House

⚪ Harbour House - a charitable contemporary art and wellbeing centre based in Kingsbridge, South Devon

(4/5)

Exterior of Art & Talking, a building in the 13th Century Market Square

We're thrilled to extend a very warm welcome to five more organisations joining Future Arts Centres. It's fantastic to have you on board!

Please join us in welcoming:

⚪ Art & Talking - the art centre of Chipping Norton

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the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Morning, #journorequest.. have you lost your job/work to AI? And is it doing a rubbish job? I'm looking for case studies for a broadsheet piece, who have been 'replaced' by AI, or find their work has dwindled. If you know anyone/that's you, please message me! Thanks very much. fliceverett@icloud.com

'Crossroads from My Window', Battersea Rise (1932) by Leonora Kathleen Green

(Wandsworth Heritage Collection)

Looking to help with funding?
This course teaches successful bid writing techniques for those seeking funding for their organisation or projects.
www.itc-arts.org/events/event...

All beliefs are welcome in London – we cannot allow extremists to divide us | Sadiq Khan Attacks against Jewish and Muslim communities are on the rise, and some politicians are exacerbating tensions by appealing to our worst instincts, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

Hate has no place in London.

Now more than ever, we must unite to build stronger, kinder communities. My London – the London I’ll keep standing up for – is a city where diversity is a strength to be celebrated, not a weakness to be hidden.

UK government urged to reduce business rates for recording studios A petition has been launched by The Music Producers Guild and UK Music asking for support for more than 500 studios across the UK

The reduction could help “safeguard hundreds of vital cultural spaces”

YouTube video by How Do Artists Make Money? The Business of Time-Warping (Ep4 Matthew Vandeputte)

New episode of How Do Artists Make Money? featuring Matthew Vandeputte - chatting about branding yourself as a studio.

youtu.be/gy8VRPWvhIM

Jack Holden: Subsidised theatres are ‘hotbeds’ of original work The creator of Kenrex and Club NVRLND admitted that times were hard for publicly funded theatres, but called on the industry to recognise their importance

Actor and writer Jack Holden has vouched for subsidised theatres as “hotbeds” of original work, reminding audiences that major West End productions are not always “sprung out of nowhere”.

Read more 👇

A tweet by Robert Reich reads: “The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.”

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

Photograph of the Gruyere and Anchovy Puffs which appears in the wonderful Notes from a Small Kitchen Island: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of the Home by Debora Robertson

This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Gruyère and Anchovy Puffs from the wonderful Notes from a Small Kitchen Island: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of the Home by @lickedspoon.bsky.social:
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

absolutely one of the most incandescent talents of his generation. made music for all time. a heavy loss.

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

The Water Garden at Cliveden in early autumn, with a small fountain in the middle of a pond. Behind the pond are steps leading up to a small jade-coloured pagoda. Surrounding acers and other trees are turning colour with the season, adding shades of yellow, orange and red to the scenery.

Let us know what matters to you by voting in our Annual General Meeting: buff.ly/uYc1Ybw

You have until midnight on 31 Oct to make your voice count.

It's Roger Moore's birthday...
I love this quote.
It's like Mr Benn - Hunter.
Shoot animals with a camera.
Never a gun.

THE NERVE Q&A Broadcaster Carol Vorderman and all-round Nerve hero submits to our rapid-fire questions about politics, swearing and sex

I enjoyed this interview with @carolvorders.bsky.social for @thenerve.news.

I find some of the British news presenters and journalists have these interesting working class or lower class backgrounds that give them a persepctive.

www.thenerve.news/p/carol-vord...

Hello, Blue Sky! This is the official account for the Clapham Book Festival, annual celebration of books and reading in South London.

Really looking forward to @claphambookfest.bsky.social tonight - hope to see some of you there!

Ginger and Walnut Carrot Cake This is very different from the richly sweet, loftily layered and aerated American original. While it is in some senses far more reminiscent of an old-fashioned, slightly rustic English teatime treat,...

Midweek Treat: my Ginger and Walnut Carrot Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! I’m rather fond of it plain and un-iced, but I admit the gingery cream cheese frosting does finish it off perfectly www.nigella.com/recipes/ging...