Thom Dibdin

Tonight’s preset for LITTLE WOMEN from EUTC at the Bedlam.
Pics by @clairevpf.bsky.social for Hugh Simpson who is on reviewing duty for @alledintheatre.bsky.social

The @theguardian.com on the truth of the Maccabi fan ban from the Aston Villa game in November.

This has been known and written about in the football chats for a while - obviously not read by Starmer who promised to fund any necessary policing. Est cost? £6m.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When was the last time you heard a politician in the media asked anything like-

-How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected?

-How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect?

I cannot remember.

Unmasking the Lies: Maccabi Tel Aviv Ban Is About Hooliganism, Not Anti-Semitism How right-wing rhetoric distorts a necessary ban of Tel Aviv hooligans to protect communities in Birmingham.

Unmasking the Lies: Maccabi Tel Aviv Ban Is About Hooliganism, Not Anti-Semitism www.andymuirhead.com/p/unmasking-... #astonvilla #birmingham #maccabitelaviv #uefa #europaleague #celticfc

3D event showcases venue's potential – Daily Business Magazine A new exhibition by the Edinburgh-based artist Trevor Jones could set the template for a historic port building, writes ANDY MOSELEY

A new article I've written about a new exhibition in an old building. magazine.dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2025/10/12/3...

On her 100th birthday, there’s one lesson the left needs to learn from Thatcher to avoid disaster Progressive political parties need to find leaders who are able, as Margaret Thatcher once was, to change the political weather and usher in a new age of better lives for ordinary people

Friday's Scotsman column, on Margaret Thatcher's 100th anniversary. The sad recent history of the UK shows her to have been wrong about almost everything. But in an age of
failing politics, we now need leaders who can do as she did, in one crucial way....
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Kraftwerk: Multimedia Tour 2026 at Edinburgh Playhouse Tue 9 Jun 2026
Tickets on sale now!

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Looking forward to a theatre double-bill in Edinburgh today, starting with 'War Horse' at the Festival Theatre this afternoon, followed by Uma Nada-Rajah's 'Black Hole Sign' @traversetheatre.bsky.social tonight. I loved War Horse in 2014, while Black Hole Sign is a new production for me to enjoy.

I was once commissioned to give a short talk on the history of Edinburgh to a group of Chinese businessmen. This was the result. I think its OK. @htenuk.bsky.social @newtscotland.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social @nexuseduk.bsky.social

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Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

Let's get this straight...the Israeli PM accuses Keir Starmer of being responsible for the attack in Manchester, while his government invites Tommy Robinson to speak in Israel? A line is being crossed all right...and all on the 99th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

'We must wean ourselves off American culture' Come the Millennium, the extended clans gathered for a family shindig, with our respective kids in tow. Our kids and the kids of my wife’s…

We’re a cultural colony of America dominated by imported trash

As Trump whacks 100% tariffs on British films, it’s time to fight back. We need to wean ourselves off substandard US garbage and start prioritising homegrown culture

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2550...

NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week
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Annual Volume 54 (2024) Edited by Steven Cramer and John Corbett Paperback, 240 pages Association for Scottish Literature, August 2025 Price £19.95 ISBN: 9781906841652 Pre-order from our bookshop These five plays address…

For those of a certain age and inclination...

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Having honours taken away (forfeiture) Honours can be taken away from people who have done something to damage the honours system’s reputation. Taking an honour away is called ‘forfeiture’.

Think Michelle Mone should be thrown out of the Lords?

Drop the Forfeiture Committee a line.

Their e mail is: forfeiture@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

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Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

In 1954, the army took out McCarthy (when he stepped accross the boundaries they could tolerate) ...just saying...

In 1933, the German Army didn't...and look what happened to them.

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Why flag-waving right-wingers are just the latest sign that the UK is falling apart Instead of opposing Reform UK, Labour seems politically mesmerised by their success

Friday's The Scotsman column. With both long-dominant Westminster parties in deep trouble, and UK politics apparently lurching to the right, independence supporters in Scotland should recognise a moment when history is playing into their hands. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Starting in October you say... As a resident of Eyre Crescent, over the road, it would be nice to know that.
Really not looking forward to the building work starting up.
Still don't feel concerns about the height of the project and its impact on local schools/amenities has been fully quantified.

Queen

I love this kind of split image.

However, I do wish someone would actively seek to replicate the *exact* same point where the historic image was taken, as well as using the same camera settings.

Also: Dude! Props for the alt description. But it's Edinburgh; That's not a sidewalk, it's a pavement!

I feel sorry for parents trying to teach their kids the facts of life, and needing to explain the concept of facts.

Remember folks, campus free speech is the right to use to n-word and say colonialism didn't kill enough Natives, not to teach transgender literature in a literature class.

A bit of sober perspective: it's one death. Single. As opposed to the the tens of thousands of completely innocent men, women and children in Gaza who at best, he didn't care about, at worst, whose slaughter he actually encouraged and celebrated.

Charlie Kirk should not have been murdered. Charlie Kirk was a dangerous and repulsive bigot. Both of these things can be true.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Lung Ha Recruitment: Board of Trustees - Lung Ha Theatre Company Lung Ha Theatre Company is seeking new Trustees to join our Board on a part-time, voluntary basis. Deadline to apply is 12 noon on Wednesday 1st October, with interviews expected to take place in earl...

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Lung Ha Theatre Company is seeking new Trustees to join our Board on a part-time, voluntary basis. We are particularly interested in hearing from those who have skills and experience in finance and in fundraising:

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Graphic with a photo of a small boat carrying people on open water. Text above reads: “Claim about the costs of asylum support, benefit fraud and tax avoidance is Mostly False.” A fact-check scale is shown beneath, with “Mostly False” highlighted.

🔴 NEW: A viral meme compares the cost of asylum support to benefit fraud and tax avoidance. Ferret Fact Service looked into it and found the claim is Mostly False.

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