Jenna

*sometimes… I can’t be arsed to redo.

Sometime ‘arts leadership’ looks like battling a storm in the lakes and soggy socks. And I’m good with that.

The first residential of the Clore Fellowship 2025-26 is done.

For the first time in years I feel excited about the prospect of (my) leadership.

What a privilege to be in the company of these people who aim to lead with care and bravery for their communities and the wider world. I am full up.

Zelensky got the tape didn’t he

So google maps updated some satellite footage, here’s one single Ukrainian village. One out of thousands

Day 8 of my Clore Fellowship. Last week I just had tiny embers. This week there is a small flame. I am starting to feel like a big roaring fire is possible again.

‘This work is not for the weak of heart’

Words to inspire ending the first week of my Clore Fellowship.

Slava

Art is even at the Kyiv railway station.

Lesia Khomenko,
Motion, 2025.
21 × 12 meters.

Learning - slowly - that the first couple of weeks back in the UK after working in Ukraine are rough for me. Lots of emotions. Empty, guilty, lost, sad, disconnected. The only thing to do is hibernate and be still and be quiet and cuddle cats.

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Last week during a missile attack a train was destroyed in Kyiv but a few hours later all services were up and running in and out of the capital and they were all on time. I know because I got on one. 7 days later I can’t get a train from Manchester to Bradford that isn’t an hour delayed. Welp.

My car insurance has gone down by £2 annually so I am buying TWO Greggs sausage rolls to celebrate

- Jacob Elordi is as white boy as they come and he’s playing Heathcliffe ffs
- Margot Robbie is far too blonde and happy to play Cathy. She’s not that good of an actress sadly
- WH is not a book about horny. It’s a book about darkness and abuse
- songs by Charli XCX lol. lol.

I’m gonna hate watch it but still please Emerald Fennell (lol that name) this is a hate crime

What is this film??? It’s not WH that’s for damn sure

All the immigrant kids are at home organising their pencil cases

Good night, dear friends. It’s 00:30 in Ukraine. I hope tonight will be peaceful. In Kyiv, rescue workers saved a cat from the rubble after a russian missile strike. Because in Ukraine, every life matters.

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

Actual proper journalism from @manchestermill.bsky.social on recent rise of flags being raised on lampposts in the city centre

The most baffling bit, one of the leaders of this endeavour was previously convicted for people smuggling 🙄🤯

Well worth a read!

manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang.
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

They deserve a world where the adults around them create safety, love, joy and peace. If only we could be better for them.

I didn’t know I had the space in my heart to feel so much love, joy, rage and despair in one single day. Celebrating the art of young people living on the front line of a war while watching their peers be massacred by missiles in a city a few hours away. No children deserve to grow up in conflict

On Wednesday we had our Ukraine premiere of our film and then we took the young people out for pizza and fun. Later that night missile alarms sounded across the city and we rushed to the shelter where I sat and watched the news from Kyiv as one young person was killed. Then a second. Then a third.

Cardi!!!!

Poland to Ukraine to Hungary. My little Eastern European heart is full of love this late summer.

What the fuck is this

Solidarity with our friends at the British Council in Ukraine always

People are trapped under the rubble of their apartment building in Kyiv, calling for help as a new batch of russian missiles approaches their city‼️

Oh fuck off Hungary

More than numbers.

At night, russia attacked Ukraine with
598 drones
and 31 missiles.

12 people were killed in Kyiv -
among them three children,
aged 2, 14, and 17.

More than numbers.