“The arts are not the cherry on the cake — they are the cake.”

Opening a debate in the House of Lords yesterday, Melvyn Bragg said the UK should realise the full potential of the arts to transform our economy and society.

💪🏽RAGE from Jess Phillips MP on the #RwandaBill costing £169k per person, IF anyone is even ever deported, while child abuse victims are given £42 each.

'150 judges can be found suddenly down the back of the sofa, while rape victims wait seven years to get in front of a judge.' ~AA

Bloody LOVED The RSC Cowbois at the Royal Court last night.
Joyous storytelling. Fantastic staging. Epic music - go see!
Congrats to all involved 👏👏👏 🙌

Cowbois Royal Court Breathlessly uncompromising storytelling & acting & singing & dancing & shooting literally from the hips! Unforgettable night of pure theatrical bliss & humanity! Thankyou Emma Pallant ,Vinnie Heaven and all creatives!
❤️‍🔥GO!❤️‍🔥

COWBOIS is here. So proud. Moves and choreo on this have been a joy to make. Lemme know if you can make it! 🤠 (can’t tag everyone as most have left this platform!).

#Cowbois is heading to the Royal Court, with Narrow Road's EMMA PALLANT (@PallantPallant)! Yeeeeehaww! 🤠

Spotlight: remove tiered membership - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Rzj2sxVF via Change.org UK

Only TEN shows left.

#cowbois

There are some pretty good deals on tickets if you want to come but think it’s too pricey. Take a look here for current offers : rsc.org.uk/ticket-prices-… (OR DM me if you can’t see something that works for you).

Come and see us… it’s pretty special. #cowbois

rsc.org.uk/ticket-prices-…
There are ways to save on tickets here.

Mark Harper on BBC Radio 4 this morning being as evasive and pathetically parrot-like as we have come to expect from this woeful government, giving non-answers to legitimate questions. We need to get these weak and weaselling fools out. We need to change politics in this country.

Currently working with this incredible company cooking up some magic. Come and see us!

Look, I know it’s a little thing in the grand scheme, but — ⁦every Superdrug⁩ pharmacy now offers recycling points for medicine blister packs, which otherwise end up in landfill in their millions.
Bag them up, take them in every month or two. Easy.
Pls RT/spread the word.

And it is out! The new collection from Glyn Maxwell, available from our website. And we couldn't be prouder.

‘Ours is not the world and all that’s in it,
Ours is how we live and if we care…’

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#poetry #poetry community

Meet the most exotic bathroom tile in existence - a single shape that can fit together without leaving gaps while never repeating its pattern. Mathematicians have been searching for it for decades newscientist.com/article/236536…

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Following a ★★★★★ SOLDOUT Edinburgh Festival Fringe as Untapped Winners w. Underbelly Edinburgh New Diorama Theatre

BLANKET BAN by Davinia Hamilton & Marta Vella transfers to Southwark Playhouse borough!

25 Apr-20 May 8pm,3.30pm

Don't miss it- book your tickets now!
🎟️southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/bl…

Our final day of damnation. Thanks to all who came to see it, those who made it, and especially all the brilliant devils in our company, not least our glorious leader Francesca Goodridge. 🔥

Horribly sad. What a loss.

One week left!
Thanks to all those who’ve been so far. 🔥

Come and see us!

#faustus #faustus thatdamnedwoman
#storyhouse

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”- Epictetus