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No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Zelensky stands up against the Bully Boys, Putin sympathisers Trump and Vance.
Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 ✊🏻

Hunter Schafer: Trans Euphoria star says new passport lists her as male Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman, hits out at President Donald Trump's policies on gender.

And so it starts.

BBC News - Trans Euphoria star says new passport lists her as male
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Tortoise Investigates - The Tavistock - 1. A verdict - BBC Sounds What really happened at the Gender Identity Development Service?

In a world where Culture Wars throw oinion around freely bolstered by clickbait headlines - whilst reasoned reporting and lived experience voices are drowned out - a well informed podcast documentary is all important.

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Last night I went to my first NT Live in the cinema to watch "The Importance of Being Ernest".
🫰🏻🫰🏻FAB-U-LOUS!!👏🏻👏🏻

Dutch animated film "Wander to Wonder" wins Bafta award - DutchNews.nl Dutch short animated film Wander to Wonder has won a Bafta at the glittering prize ceremony in London. Dutch director Nina Gantz won the award for best short animation, having earlier picked up a…

Dutch short animated film Wander to Wonder has won a Bafta at the glittering prize ceremony in London.

Equity stands with our colleagues in our sister union @sagaftra.org in the fight for the rights of US performers to receive remuneration on sound recordings. We will always defend the rights of performers everywhere regardless of nationality.

Thanks to Lord Clement Jones for securing this debate.

Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz Eighty years after the liberation of the concentration camp, some politicians have been quick to target outsiders.

BBC News - Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz
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David Lynch: Film director dies at 78, family says The Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker is famous for the film Mulholland Drive and the TV series Twin Peaks.

Farewell to one of the most iconic, groundbreaking storyteller film maker and tv series.

BBC News - Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says
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Our @equity4gnd.bsky.social members and all at @equityuk.bsky.social send solidarity to @sagaftra.org, @actorsequity.bsky.social and all those working in the film, tv and gaming industries who have been affected by the L.A. wildfires.

#actingtips #dramaguru #actorsky #TheatreSky

Got this twice. Second one at 3am. Very very blowy out there now.

Equity calls for union rates following Starmer Pinewood Studios speech Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered a high-profile policy speech from Pinewood Studios this morning, leading to an Equity response calling for government tax relief to be linked to working terms and...

Government tax relief for the film & TV industry must be linked to working terms & conditions. The industry can only thrive if those working in it are paid a fair wage.

Read our response to Prime Minister Starmer's speech at Pinewood Studios today ⬇️
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YouTube video by The Bluegrass Professors James Baldwin: How Much Time Do You Want For Your "Progress"?

#theatre sector particularly, theatre should and could be at the vanguard of change, and yet things remain the same if not worse.

This is true in society and artists have historically been the first demand and make change… but right about now, theatre feels complacent so…

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Every National, Regional and Local Government must increase Arts Funding - and those Local Authorities who have zero funding must begin rethinking and investing in professional Live Performance.

Current reading, and enjoying every turn of the page.

Storm Conall to hit the northern Netherlands with 130 kph winds - DutchNews.nl The KNMI weather bureau has upped its warning about storm Conall to amber for the north of the country, saying winds of up to 130 kph are possible in northern coastal areas on Wednesday evening. The…

The worst of the storm will be felt on the Noord Holland and Friesland coast, as well as the Wadden Sea islands, but strong winds of between 80 kph and 110 kph will also cause problems in Flevoland, Overijssel, Drenthe and Groningen.

Expected? Unexpected? Either way, a loss for the bbc.

Not just a Union for industry pay, but a Union campaigning for justice beyond.

Christopher Lee telling MR James' Ghost Stories for Christmas is one of my favourite TV things ever. And you can probably leave the 'TV' out of that sentence too.

A photo of my article featuring pictures of me, the Orion Nebula, 7 Sisters & Andromeda.

I was asked to write a quick article for the Local Look Magazine in Bath. So I wrote about discovering astronomy and learning how to view and image the sky during lockdown & my obsession with it and all things night sky related.

#Astronomy #Astro #Astrophotography #NightSky

#TwinPeaks

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes One of Britain’s most prolific actors, Stephen Graham is the face of countless hard-to-forget TV and film characters, a regular Scorsese collaborator and good mates with Leo DiCaprio. He talks about living it up in Leicestershire – and why he’s in the…

‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes

The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades Tate Britain, London From Greenham and Orgreave to Belfast and City slickers, visceral images from a turbulent decade jostle for attention in a show that feels overwhelming in its scale and confusing narrative There are several photographs in this…

The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades