Book your ticket for 'Turning the Tide – Creative actions for uncharted climate emergencies', a climate and culture summit conference on 25 April in CCA – bit.ly/3PVjJko
Dr Liz Gardiner Fablevision Intercult IKM Gdańsk CDPI #ClimateNeedsCulture Bath Spa University

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Ministers’ decision to impose Brexit import checks on 30 April will lead to shortages of some foods, flowers and herbs, industry leaders have warned. Some EU exporters have had enough of UK red tape and have given up
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Higher education blues! Feel so sad for friends and colleagues at Goldsmiths - there is a longer historic aspect to this tragedy about the legacy of community education but also the signal it sends through the whole sector. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Ministers ‘boast about how well Britain’s creative industries are doing and how many billions they contribute to the economy. Yet they seem … incapable of making the connection between growing this sector and educating the future workforce it needs.’ ⁩ thetimes.co.uk/article/richar…

Join us for the Climate Culture Summit, April 25th CCA we are bringing together European artists, curators, alongside reps from local government, voluntary sectors & HE to discuss the roles that arts, culture & creative citizenship can play in tackling #climatechange

'The historical record on this is unquestionable. 1920s, 1930s Europe is littered with examples...One has to draw a hard line, and say…one won’t ally with...people, actors, political parties who don’t accept elections, threaten violence, and engage in anti-democratic behavior.'

There are dozens and dozens of examples of racist, transphobic, islamophobic tweets that Wilma has liked and reposted. Is this appropriate for a parliamentary candidate Fife Labour #FifeLabourDelivers Scottish Labour ? Do you endorse this candidate?

Rishi Sunak out delivering leaflets today with the Conservative London mayoral candidate Susan Hall.

The Information Commissioner's Office say they are now considering allegations of misuse of data in relation to Hall's latest leaflet campaign
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UNICEF’s James Elder says Rafah is a city of children, a city of boys & girls, & if you understand the pain of a parent, please, just make it stop

This sums up how an awful lot of us are feeling, more or less

Ministers to cut funding for performing and creative arts courses in England dlvr.it/T54McC

Both sinister and hilariously inept. Much like the way in which Rishi Sunak 'governs' and the Conservatives are 'campaigning'. All smoke/mirrors, data harvesting, monetisation, surveillance, astroturfing and empty slogans. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

THE PLEDGE: 'To maintain and strengthen our global position in higher education.'

THE OUTCOME: EU students down more than half. Student visas down 33%. Post-graduate enrollments down 40%. Several unis are looking at reducing places for loss-making UK students to survive. 18/

Dramatic change in last month of Biden & Trump odds of winning:
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Krishnan Guru-Murty to the Israeli spokesperson, David Mancer: “If you won't answer the questions I can't allow you to do the propaganda”

More of this please

Also do it with Tories

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Excellent new Financial Times film on some of the impacts of Brexit and especially on the reasons for and dangers of the political silence about it

The greater danger will be the intense pressure to please those on the right like John and Janan..not least when John and Janan- and others that cannot cope with politics a milimetre to the left of David Cameron-are unbiddable:

There is no overstating just how absolutely insane this is. There is no precedent - NONE - of a state deliberately bombing an embassy. It didn't even happen during WW1, WW2 or even the 19th century. Heck even during the medieval era and Roman empire, the protection of envoys and…

Are you saying that “multiple tonnes” of “unsafe meat”, “entering the country undetected”, “in wheelie bins”, “hidden in coaches”, and “unrefrigerated vehicles” making its way to your takeaway was NOT what you voted for? ~AA

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