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billbj.bsky.social
Opera & theatre director working hard to make my & others’ dreams come true, AD @teteateteopera.bsky.social founding member of @freelancersmake.bsky.social, talking a lot about opera and freelancers, Cornwall, cairn terriers, hEDS, surf, RNLI… 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏄🏼‍♂️🐾🗣️🎶🦓🥟
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Stupefied and so saddened by this parliament’s attacks from all sides on disabled people and abandonment of the arts in spite of manifesto promises. Who’d have thought it a year ago?

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Why are it OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons but not Iran?

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Kemi Badenoch on R4 Today: “I’m sorry Emma, you are changing the very focus of what I’m talking about.” Isn’t that precisely the job of an interviewer? 🤔

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a woman just trying to get home gets shot

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We have been dancing, drinking and going out with boys, well what more could you ask for?

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Are you an opera maker, producer or staff member of an opera company? Please join an open meeting on Wednesday 25 June to discuss and collaborate on the creation of a representative body for the opera sector! You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-opera-s...

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My favourite feed, I think ❤️

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Trying to ape the policies of its opponents is never going to help Labour win. And the awful truth is we, the nation, are the collateral.

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STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

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Parliament is going to have a debate on self-ID on 19th May. If your MP is supportive of trans rights, it’s really important that you write to them to ask them to be there. The transphobes will turn out in force - we need to make sure allies do too.

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Please water my plants and stand on draining board.

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"Do you even own a black suit?"

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Just finished White Lotus series 3. WHY? I’ve hated the whole thing. Couldn’t be more dull. Time to boycott US TV as well as the rest of it. #BoycottUSA

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We’re sharing an open letter from our Chair Sir Nicholas Serota and his National and Area Council colleagues in response to Wigmore Hall’s successful fundraising campaign, the subsequent debate about public funding of arts and culture and #LetsCreate. Read the key points below 🧵

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...listening to the news and wondering not for the first time if things might not be a lot better if a precondition of being leader of a nation were castration.

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Arts Council England (ACE) chair Nicholas Serota has defended the organisation’s commitment to inclusion and access in the wake of criticism of community outreach work requirements placed on the arts organisations it funds.

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If only the UK government cared as much for the creative industries as it does for the car industry.

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Why does every person who reads poetry on BBC Radio 4 put on a silly voice when they do so?

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Is democracy over?

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2020-2024: UK energy industry made £483.4bn operating profit. 6.1m households in fuel poverty. 110,000 pensioners a year die in fuel poverty. Industries. struggling. What would the govt do? Watch the Minister's reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Attf...

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TIME TO DISARM! 💣 Nuclear weapons are BACK at Lakenheath. The US is turning the UK into a nuclear front line—AGAIN. This is not a drill 👊 Join us for 2 weeks of action at Lakenheath Peace Camp—a camp of RESISTANCE, HOPE & DIRECT ACTION 📍 RAF Lakenheath, IP27 9PS 📅 14–26 April 2025

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