Big shock - rich old white dude supports another rich old white dude 🙄 www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

We’re trying to raise £100k in one week to #BringTurnerHome to #Bristol. The oil painting of the Avon Gorge was painted by Turner age 17. Recently rediscovered after 150yrs, it’s going to auction on July 2 and we think it belongs in Bristol for all to enjoy! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bringturne...

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Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

If you’re in #Bristol, #Bath or #SouthGlos, make sure you get out and vote in the West of England Mayoral election today. We’re the first cat of the day at the polling station!

Strike the Right Note is our Friday feel-good comms newsletter with campaigns, cultural happenings and good causes that stand out. See this week's edition of Campaign, Culture and Cause below. And if you want to sign up, click here: mailchi.mp/7d071db8931a...

Husband & wife. King & Queen. Son & daughter. Notice the male always goes first? That's because in gendered pairs, it's the most powerful. We can use everyday language to challenge the patriarchal order. This blog (from my linguist daughter) sets out what we can do. medium.com/@shfrankpitt...

Five years of Strike 🎉

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Well done to grassroots girls football club York Railway Institute AFC for calling out stereotyping and standing up to the bullies. Brilliant response from them and great reaction to it #football #womensfootball www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

So proud of my little brother for getting his first #Grammy last night. When there is so much doom and gloom around, this news is something pretty special to wake up to on a Monday morning. Flipping amazing 👏👏👏

Once more for the folks at the back. bsky.app/profile/bobp...

How to Survive the 🍊 tyrant. This is very good. sianushka.substack.com/p/how-to-sur...

Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference— sign this @hopenothate.org.uk te.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...

‘We’re coming for you,’ English police chief tells domestic abusers - this is great to hear from the police today. Yet on the same day #RyanWellings was cleared of the manslaughter of his partner in Lancashire despite 2 years of abuse & arrest & previous history www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...

Is it just me, but don’t the far right key players - Anderson, Farrage, Musk, Robinson et al - remind you of all those nasty and petulant childhood school bullies in the playground? And Anderson could literally be Bif from Back to the Future.

This man is probably the biggest threat we face as a society, to our press freedom, and to our democracy. Will anyone stand up to him?

I love the annual reel - what a blast we’ve had @strikecomms.bsky.social again this year 🤩

So is it just #DogsOfBlueSky or can #CatsOfBlueSky join in? Happy Christmas from my boy, who I reckon is quite possibly the fanciest cat in #Bristol right now 😄

“Populism feeds on pessimism” - this is a great article from @torstenbell.bsky.social. Really hoping someone has bought me his book for Christmas 🤞 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THIS is how it’s done, folks.

How do charities & campaigners cut through the noise? Hear from the best in this recorded panel discussion & write-up. With @strikecomms.bsky.social @hopenothate.org.uk @ledbydonkeys.org www.strikecommunications.co.uk/cutting-thro...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely

This is spot on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nick Robinson on 🔥 this morning. Chris Phelps’ only comeback seems to be to keep repeating how ‘honest’ and ‘truthful’ Kemi Badenoch is… Thoroughly entertaining. #R4Today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Delighted to be a middle-class woman of a certain age 🙌

“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation… The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media” We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.

Reading from a script sounds so inauthentic. Listening to Delvin Lane, CEO of Instavolt, on the Today programme this morning is painful. He has some excellent points but it doesn’t sound like he’s having a conversation - he’s parroting bullet points. (At 6.49am) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Any other #PRagency folk reaching peak pre-Xmas client frenzy? 6 meetings today, breakfast & evening events coming out of my ears, and waaay too much overflow weekend work. Can barely find time for all those leisurely “we should meet for a drink before Xmas” catch ups! (Not complaining though!)

#r4today already getting it wrong in its coverage from Turkey: 1) Turkey has never been "welcoming" to refugees. The EU paid it, a lot, to prevent people reaching its borders, and Turkey has been shown to repeatedly abuse them. 2) Refugees are not "illegal". Nothing about what they do is illegal.

Kneejerk response, then overcorrection: what the aftermath of the Amsterdam violence should teach us | Rachel Shabi

I find it so depressing that to book a doctors appointment, aside from having to do an overly detailed online self assessment, the image you’re given to identify where on your body the issue is, is a male body (although missing some key parts). Another example of the gender inequality in healthcare.

Me and Milo have delightedly joined the mass exodus from the other platform (again). Be patient with us as we decide on our new home…

Beautiful day in #Bristol today. Glorious run through Ashton Court Park. Perfect way to start October 🥰

Another day, another social media account to think of something interesting to post on. But I’ve been excitedly waiting for this one, so here’s hoping it sticks 🤞