Lisa Holdsworth

The Colour of Magic. A tatty paperback was being passed around my sixth form college. And then I passed it to my Dad and started his obsession.

A friend of writers in the #HouseOfLords - thanks to our Chair Tim Clement-Jones for highlighting the need for an #AI license to better protect the work of creators 🙏

We're keenly awaiting the government's report and economic analysis of #ArtificialIntelligence and #Coypright, due later this month.

The last six weeks threw a lot at us. Snow, tornadoes, family health stuff. We had to postpone twice, which we hate doing.
We're back. March schedule is set. And Supervisor Olive has opinions about all of it.

What's keeping YOU going lately?

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I want to know what that tangerine twat was going to say about the North because I sense it might be grounds for sending in Sean Bean with a fookin’ big sword. The bastard.

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The UK must stand unequivocally against the reckless and illegal action taken by the US and Israel against Iran - publish the initial legal advice on the American/Israeli strikes and commit to a vote in the Commons before any UK involvement in this war.

Playwrights call for greater ‘creative risk’ after Rubasingham lecture Playwrights David Edgar, Sonali Bhattacharyya and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm have urged artistic directors to take greater risks on original writing following Indhu Rubasingham's Jennie Lee Lecture

Playwrights call for greater creative risk following Jennie Lee lecture last week

Read this story in @thestage.co.uk with quotes from WGGB Theatre Chairs @mogster.bsky.social and @sonalidb.bsky.social and former WGGB President David Edgar

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‘We knocked out our regime change candidates by mistake’

A 3-year-old gazing up at an out-of-frame movie screen in absolute rapturous wonderment, clutching a paper popcorn bag, bathed in the red glow of movie magic

Took Anya to her first-ever movie-theatre movie today (Snow White at Film Forum, obvs) and have you EVER seen the magic of cinema so fully & rapturously embodied. Ted Sarandos currently running for cover. Nicole Kidman feeling a great shift in the energy of the world.

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The announcement of the 2026 Tinniswood Award winner at the #BBCAudioDramaAwards this evening was a special one

It saw the late Oliver Emanuel honoured for ‘One Hundred and Fifty Days’, an "extraordinary and generous gift of a play"

Read more here 🔽

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Fuuuuuck.

BREAKING: Trump Trademarks “WWIII”

Jennie Lee lecture 2026: our response - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain In response to the Jennie Lee lecture, given on 26 February 2026 by National Theatre Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham, WGGB issued the following response:    There are troubling new figures …

At this year's Jennie Lee Lecture, @nationaltheatre.org.uk Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham highlighted the crisis in new writing for theatre and the need for a renewed national commitment to back creative risk, something WGGB supports

Our response in full:

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Goodbye, Rob Grant – the Red Dwarf co-creator who found the laughs in loneliness Paying tribute to the man who brought solace to a generation of sci-fi loving misfits.

My own small tribute to Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant #RedDwarf www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ro...

So, is anyone else experiencing this with elderly parents? Mum keeps calling me in a tizz about the cost of her insurance or tax bill etc. Convinced that she is being scammed.

I panic, dash over and check the bill and have to tell her “that’s just what it costs these days”. Repeatedly.

Are Reform hoping that if they whine enough we'll vote for them just so they'll shut up? Little brats.

Pretty uncomfortable w the implication in some of the chat today that British Muslims’ concerns are somehow less electorally valid than those of people from other backgrounds. Quite a lot of reductive implications that gaining the support of Muslim voters is somehow dishonest or gaming the system.

Twat dooming Reform? (4,7)

Reform win historic first seat. What this will mean for reshaping the landscape of British politics.

Greens win historic first by-election. What this will mean for Reform.

All media. All morning.

Worth noting that even if Labour and the Greens had split the vote exactly evenly – the absolute worst case scenario for the stop Reform majority in the seat – Matt Goodwin still didn’t have enough votes to sneak a victory.

Sweet as a nut.

started a rewatch of the original MUPPET SHOW and daily confronting "oh yeah i used to have nightmares about this" and a long-buried sexual awakening, often in the same skit

On fleek. As I believe the kids no longer say.

Goodwin blaming his loss on those damn lefties and Muslims clubbing together and not voting for him.

Yes, Matt, that’s how democracy works. Now, fuck off back to London, you shitty little nazi.

Trans flag with the words: First they came for the transgender community, And I spoke up immediately even though I’m straight and cis because I’ve read the rest of the fucking poem.

'States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans' sounds a lot cheerier than 'illegalisation of Americans we just don't fucking like'.

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Hi, 52. Yes, I get that reference.

Yeah, regulate me Daddy. Regulate me real good.