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This has lost me thousands of pounds (not to mention book sales) and put me in a state of terror and panic. I urge anyone thinking of moving their list from Substack, or wanting to know more about how Substack works, to read it....

Solve your Christmas gift worries - and support our cause - with a copy of our history book or a set of our Christmas Cards (or both!). Visit our shop page here - https://streathamhilltheatre.org/support/shop

The Caroline Flack documentary was sad. The press didn't skip a beat between demonisation & pity.

This is genuinely a lovely way to remember Christina McKelvie.

❄️ Winter weather has kicked in. And our vendors are out there, selling Big Issue to earn an income.

That's why it's urgent we give them the right equipment to keep warm, connected and encourage sales

If you'd like to buy a kit, visit bigissue.com/christmas ❤️

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

Really shocking the way a record company can do this to musicians.

'Creative people are sort of damaged' John Lloyd on his incredible comedy career

'Creative people are sort of damaged'

Velvet Goldmine is a terrible film, but I love it anyway.

London's giant AI artwork to be torn down The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…

I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

Tbf - I think people did genuinely fear being character of the day on Twitter, but it's just such small beer compared to what's happening now.

always be there

Reading ghost stories instead of sleeping.

'Gatti's Hungerford Palace of Varieties, Second Turn of Katie Lawrence' - Walter Richard Sickert (c. 1902-3)

Meet the man who created the ‘Christmas is cancelled’ myth In 1998, Michael Chubb’s team at Birmingham city council came up with ‘Winterval’ – and the backlash is still being felt today

I'm sure I've seen examples earlier than 1998 - but here's the story of Birmingham "banning" Christmas in 1998. (X is currently claiming that Tesco has banned Christmas):
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A ban on reselling theatre tickets for more than their original price is being introduced by the government in a bid to “destroy the operating model of ticket touts”.

👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/government-to-ban-reselling-theatre-tickets-for-more-than-face-value

Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

YouTube video by RHINO Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being A Friend (Official Music Video)

I was wondering about Andrew Gold's origin story. He sold a documentary to the BBC, couldn't sell another - it's extremely competitive - & claims it's because he's white, so now he peddles racism on YouTube.
🔗 He's not the musician: youtu.be/voNEgCKzves?...

A grid of nine images. Prints, a phone case, a T-shirt, a cushion and Christmas cards and wrap.

Right then. It's mid-November and if you're thinking about #Christmas shopping, now's the time. All my products are designed here in Manchester and made in the UK.
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk

Poster with brown and white artwork featuring an assembly line of people coming out of and returning to a factory, while out the workers are fed and cared for by women

'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday

Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.

People don’t get that Hollywood is incredibly conservative. There’s no industry that’s more risk-averse. They’re the people who will only laugh at a joke if everyone else laughs first.

I've decided to become a thinktank.

This is how thinktanks work. They decide to become a thinktank, declare themselves thinktanks and then because they're thinktanks, they can be quoted as newsworthy.

I can now spout any bollocks I like, and can be used in any news piece that it suits.

Always knock on walls as you walk by, you never know which spot might be the secret passage opening.

Word!
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.

Spotter: James Stewart

Your favourite library is sinking Rooms closed, basements flooded, is the Mitchell being run into the ground?

🔍 We've spoken to staff, volunteers, and patrons of the Mitchell Library. What we found about its condition makes for worrying reading about Glasgow's most celebrated public resource.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...

Catholic Bishops Take Rare Step to Slam Trump’s Deportations MAGA has provoked the church’s first special statement in 12 years.

America’s Catholic bishops issued a rare statement condemning the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate mass deportation.”

It's horrifying.

Two days after publication, and this stone-cold racism from a Peer of the Realm has prompted precisely zero response from the political class.

He says, in print, that "the sons of immigrants" bring violence with them in their genes.

We're just pricing this in to public debate now, it seems.

Sending this to an estate agent.