Do you deserve access to public luxuries? Do you know what they are? Artist/filmmakers Simon Poulter & Sophie Mellor discuss their doc WE ARE MAKING A FILM ABOUT MARK FISHER. Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2T0J... Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Q4...

Today... Anxious Freda returned to the journey home. She felt there was an air of inevitability to it. The croupier, and Arab prince, pulled up at her bus stop to taunt her. The cashier jogged by & asked if she was scared. Seconds later... the 45 mounted the kerb & ran her over. What do you see?

The creative industries are one of the UK's biggest and best exports, contributing more than $100 billion to the economy every year. Yet successive governments simply refuse to acknowledge this, as if it's unimportant. And now they want to sell us all down the river.

Today... Freda was tripped in the casino. Jumping to her feet, she inexplicably landed in a car, idling in traffic with no driver. An angry man asked why she wasn't moving. She recognised him. It was Terry, 60s. He gave her booze when she was 12. She stabbed him and drove off. What do you see?

For maximum impact, post a paper letter to your MP. Printed & signed in pen is fine. 1 page, 3 short, polite, not copy-paste, points in an envelope to be opened by hand. 90 seconds a letter? 100 letters = 2.5 hours staff time not spent on usual tasks. 1000 letters? Heaped mailbags soon get noticed.

💔 Get well soon, King.

International politics gets really complicated when 90% of the administrations are the bad guys...

What’s the one film that made you want to work in film? For UK producer Daisy Allsop it’s TRUE ROMANCE Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5WVd... Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_v...

Ch4’s DIRTY BUSINESS proving how greed and a public duty of care don’t mix … privatisation doesn’t work; never worked … Thatcher’s legacy is shit pumped into our rivers

Lol they're not your friends, Kash. And you can't use federal resources—including the FBI's $62M private jet—to go on a taxpayer-funded Olympic getaway & locker room bender. Adding it to the evidence file for our investigation, @raskin.house.gov.

Sometimes* the best thing a white, male, non-disabled person can do is just shut up and listen. (*always)

Let's all remember this moment the next time anyone in that party pretends they care about women's sports when all they want to do is dehumanize trans people.

There’s a lot of awful things going on, the US president is headlining a lot of them, and we all know he’s a raging misogynist - but it’s so fucking sad to listen to him mock the gold medal winning women’s hockey team, not because I expect better, but because all those boys fucking laughed along.

Today... Freda could see no one she recognised on the tube. A splitting headache forced her off & sat on the platform, recovering, a tramp began talking to her. He knew her, but she didn't him. He claimed to know everything about her. When she spoke, she was compelled to confess. What do you see?

Bought my first set of stairs. Don’t know where that puts me on the adulting scale

Today's... Freda's roulette win on 21 teleported her to a tube ride with Frank. She followed him home. It'd been 25 years since he murdered her best friend Madeline. 25 years since her teenage pleas for justice were dismissed & ignored. She struck while he enjoyed a midnight pee. What do you see?

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Think you’ve made it as a screenwriter? Think again. Karla Williams says: “it’s about maximising each current opportunity to feed the next opportunity” Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3B1m... Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8FI...

Today... Freda took shelter in a shop doorway. The door fell open & she toppled inside. A man in an adult nappy shouting 'pieces of eight' greeted her presence. She escaped out the back, but that only led to moorland in the lake district where a heatless bonfire raged. What do you see?

What is the greatest compliment you’ve ever been paid? For Stealth Pitch author @kaiaalexander.bsky.social it was meeting Orion Pictures Mike Medavoy for the 1st time. Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3rFm... YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoQ...

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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 09-FEB-26 is: Yard & Vacation #Prompt

One of the core things the Epstein emails reveal are not only are the rich owner class all absolute monsters, but they’re all really fucking stupid too. Stripped of all their wealth they wouldn’t know how to dress themselves.

Don McCullin Local Boys in Bradford, 1972 “I have a philosophy in photography. The day I think I have arrived in photography, that is the day when I have lost as a person. You must never arrive as a human being. You must constantly be journeying.”

This is what I mean when I say the *entire* British media and political establishment needs to be dismantled. Decades upon decades of this, of all the important people knowing each other and caring far more about the political ambitions of those in their social circles than the lives of the public.

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

Today... Freda returned to where she did her YTS & met 16 yr old Freda. They spoke & a time loop kicked in. Freda was able to leave, but a version of her remained, trapped. At the door she was transported to her office, then the casino. But the bus flashed up too. Why? What can you see?

Today... roadies Terry & Frank drove Freda home but wanted more than a coffee when they reached her door. She hadn't entirely harnessed her magical powers yet but somehow it had put a katana in her hand. Freda wielded the weapon at the 2, now regretful, men in their tour van. What story do you see?

Today... roadies Terry & Frank drove Freda home but wanted more than a coffee when they reached her door. She hadn't entirely harnessed her magical powers yet but somehow it had put a katana in her hand. Freda wielded the weapon at the 2, now regretful, men in their tour van. What do you see?

Today... Freda confronted Phil. The man she walked out on at their wedding after he slapped her in front of everyone. 21 yrs later his ruddy face had filled out, but the same old psychopath sat before her. She manifested a gun into being, pull it out of her handbag & shot him. What do you see?

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the #Art of #Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/...

Today... Freda remembered when Bernard & his magnificent 'do walked into her life. A man of few words, except if it was hair care. He went missing 1 day & his phone went to voicemail. Doom scrolling during her lunch she discovered he'd been arrested & dubbed the Camden Cannibal. What do you see?

I’m waiting for the karma to hit, but these rich bast…. never seem to face any consequences.

What's fascinating to me after reading a bunch of the Epstein files emails from all kinds of senior figures from all kinds of countries is just how many of them were randomly telling Epstein state secrets over unsecured, unencrypted email, and nobody's security services bothered with it AT ALL.

Today... Freda hid away in the library only to discover a man claiming he was here to help her move on. He spoke like a cryptic crossword until he said: What did she remember before she died? It scared her mind blank. He added: Denial must pass for truth to be let in. What do you see?

What film did you watch again, the moment it finished? For The Correction Unit writer/director Derry Shillitto of Foyle River Films it was 2001’s SIDEWAYS For the podcast: Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7LMx... Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leit...

Today... Freda unearthed a photo she took of Peter. The skinny-framed goth she'd met camping in the South Of France. He was the freest of spirits which was such an attractive feature at 22, but it would become the reason their relationship, once back in the UK, was doomed to fail What do you see?

It's actually pretty impressive that every clause in this sentence represents a different type of horseshit.

Today... Freda danced down the street in the pouring rain to her place of work, but her joy crashed when she found that Carl on reception didn't recognised her, Jenny at the cleaning agency had no idea who she was and her credit card was declined everywhere she went.

Remember, 50 years ago Trump was excluding black people from his apartments. Calling for the execution of black youths exonerated by DNA evidence. Birtherism. Black "shithole countries". Saying black people from cities would rape suburban women, were responsible for airline crashes. Lifelong bigot.

Today... Freda came to in a musty shed. It was Grandaddy William's quiet space where he'd do his tool sharpening or carpentry & she'd work through his pile of Len Deighton novels. Despite the 30 years since last stepping foot in it, her nostrils caught a whiff of his pipe smoke. What do you see?

Today... Freda bumped in Jeremy as she drove by him in a cab. They'd separated 25 years ago & this was some coincidence by anyone's standards, butl he explained his medium had predicted it would happen, on this day. He gone to see her in hope more than with any real conviction. What do you see?

REVIEW | Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film

RIP to the most iconic on-screen Mom of all time, Christmas won’t be the same knowing Catherine O’Hara isn’t out looking for Kevin.

What film do you consider a poetic essay to a city? screenwriter @linelangebek.bsky.social says WINGS OF DESIRE "is a poetic essay about a city" That city being late 1980s Berlin Full podcast is out now Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4szM...

Today... Freda exited Lidl with food for Christmas dinner. She bumped into her father but he hadn't aged a day since he walked out on her 35+ years ago. She asked why he never came back from the shops. He said he did. Said he's watched her grow up, but from another dimension. What do you see?

i'm loving the new masthead