Here's Farage saying that he would 'pick up a rifle' - www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

If the best hope for the left is/was Jeremy Corbyn, we might as well all pack up and go home.

Seems the Emirates Stadium is up for sale for £10k. “Poor neighbours” www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Every course I run, I ask each participant to send me a song that makes them happy. The songs go into a playlist for that course which I play in breaks and at lunch. It’s a small way to make people feel included and happy - two crucial conditions for co-creation.

Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Joyful day in Liverpool at @liveveryplay.bsky.social - training some of their brilliant artists.

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

A beautiful three days thinking about co-creation, devising, leadership and collaborative practice with these excellent people. Every course I run I learn something new from the people who come along.

Can't recommend Ned's courses enough. If you're at all interested in working with young people and co-creating - you should defo go for it. Even though I'm not in that world at the moment, I found the course re-invigorated stuff for me in the plain old world of writing theatre and TV. Check it out X

I'm excited to announce three new courses - booking now! Co-Creation with Young People and Communities, in September and November. Co-Creation: Stage 2, for anyone who's done my first course and wants to go deeper, in July. Book now - they're already selling fast. www.nedglasier.com/training

“Er, my question is really in two parts…” From the new Private Eye, out now.

"Politicians convicted of embezzling public funds should be banned for life" Marine Le Pen on French television network @publicsenat.fr in April 2013

Spent three days deep-thinking co-creation, play-making, young people, artistry and lots more with this generous, sharp, kind and inspiring group of people. Three places left for my next course in May - www.nedglasier.com/training

Ned is amazing and his courses are insightful, practical, fun and explore all the big questions around co-creation. Highly recommend 👇👇

Right friends, due to popular demand I’ve scheduled another Co-Creation course in May. On sale now and 6 places gone already. Book now at www.nedglasier.com/training

Right friends, due to popular demand I’ve scheduled another Co-Creation course in May. On sale now and 6 places gone already. Book now at www.nedglasier.com/training

I’ve had some people ask if I can run a 2/3 day co-creation day in mid May (14th - 16th). It’s quite short notice so I’m testing the water - if anyone would like this to happen, please sign up here and I’ll confirm soon if we’ve got the numbers or not. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’ve had some people ask if I can run a 2/3 day co-creation day in mid May (14th - 16th). It’s quite short notice so I’m testing the water - if anyone would like this to happen, please sign up here and I’ll confirm soon if we’ve got the numbers or not. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is fascism.

StopTB has a new report estimating the impact of the foreign aid freeze. It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

If your event is about young people and there are young people there and at the end of the event they put their hand up in the audience and ask if they can come up on stage and say something you might need to rethink how you’re platforming them. ANYWAY

This is fascinating and useful - as you’d expect from brilliant @touretteshero.bsky.social

Theatre & disability culture crew, please spread the word about our new Light Maps survey. @thestage.bsky.social @darylandco.bsky.social @disabilityarts.bsky.social @davidbellwood.bsky.social @neurodiverse-ot.bsky.social @nedglasier.com @companythree.bsky.social @graeaetheatre.bsky.social

I am bored of the cold and the rain

Since I set up @artsemergency.bsky.social (not inc 2y piloting & discursively developing a project) FOUR people have signed up to our community EVERY DAY. That’s now 17,200 people over the past 12 years. 90% of our team & 100% of our trustee board would have been eligible for the project aged 16🧵

We are in the midst of an administrative coup the like of which we have never seen - or even imagined - in our lifetimes. Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed. We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.

Yes, but not only because it’s a route into professional work. Because it also joyful, illuminating, full of craft and transformative in its own right. And because it allows space for everyone to express themselves whether they want to be a pro or not.

The best thing about three-year-olds is when they call their armpits crumpets.

The best thing about three-year-olds is when they call their armpits crumpets.

Even if the poem is good, I don’t want to read it. It’s the knowledge that something was made by a person, forged by their experience and craft, started, scrubbed out, picked up again and redrafted. That’s what does it for me.

Do you go to the theatre? Do you care about Palestinian art and culture? Do you want the Edinburgh Fringe to be an internationalist platform where Palestinan artists can be seen and celebrated? Then give these people your money, they need it! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/welcome-to...

“Daddy I’ve set myself a goal” “What is it?” “I want to know everything”

Only 7% of students studying creative subjects at The University of Manchester are from working class backgrounds. SEVEN PER CENT. IN MANCHESTER. Manchester. The biggest exports of this city from music to sport to telly are working class Mancs and yet….

If you have the capacity to carve out time and finances to do this course. You really should - I had a lovely time and feel revived

And if you don’t have the finances, just get in touch x

If universities are so full of clever people why can’t they work out a way to pay freelancers without them filling out 60 forms?

Ha

Agreeing to become a trustee is like agreeing to look after the dam of a reservoir. You sign up in the expectation that this mainly involves checking the wall, overseeing a maintenance plan and making sure small unexpected leaks get fixed quickly and well. And in the main, that’s what it is.

A wise thread…

50% of the places for this have now gone. Co-creation with young people and communities course - 26-28 March Pay what you can Full of joy (and biscuits) Please repost! nedglasier.com/courses/co-c...

Every bit as true in the U.S. Read the whole thread. #TheatreSky

Young in their teens and 20s, especially men, are spending more time alone than in previous generations. They ""now hang out about as much as someone 10 years older than them did in the past." Interesting data from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/2305...