Enjoyed my years out and about on the Sheffield music scene so keen to check Daniel's new book out. Might even bag myself some cheeky merch this way too! 🤞

And just like that, a new Daughn Gibson album daughngibson.bandcamp.com/album/lake-m...

Broadcasters and press have a responsibility to our communities - and repeatedly centring exceptional negative cases while ignoring the overwhelming reality — people/families building lives, survivors seeking safety, communities contributing economically and socially — distorts public understanding.

I had hopes that a Labour govt would make settling in the country I was born in easier and/or more affordable for us than under the Tories, but it seems they have other ideas

Thread. Please read - this deeply unfair & expensive policy affects families like mine

Solidarity with and 👏 to everyone attending this today. I'm over here in DE hoping some of this message gets through to Starmer & co, so I and my non-UK family can move to the UK 🤞 and attend a future march. (Shocking that marches against the far right are needed in 2026/7/8/? anyway)

Finally got around to Sentimental Value. Joachim Trier is a genius, can confirm

A 6-year-old cancer survivor at Great Ormond Street Hospital could lose vital care due to the Government’s “earned settlement” changes. The Home Office reduces lives to numbers, ignoring health and safety. MPs must stop these cruel, dehumanising reforms. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Well fair enough this is what you get for doing something two months late. Still, fun

It is happening again

Watched Sirāt. An incredible cinematic experience, knocked me sideways like no other film for some time. Recommend going in with as little knowledge of the plot/subject matter as possible

I’m offering 25% off my TV & Film writing courses for Black Friday! More info below or DMs open if you'd like to chat! #scriptsky www.adamlavis.com/screenwritin...

50(!) years today since Bruce & The E Street Band's first show at the Hammersmith Odeon. Great clip, though this show's '...Saint In The City' is even better, partly because Bruce dedicated the song to me ❤️

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Very, very good piece. "London is perhaps the only place in England where you can tell people where you’re from, and instantly they feel empowered to inform you what a terrible place it is." ✅ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Just checking if anyone's ever finished a bag of spinach

“Legitimate concerns.”

I'm hearing The Black Angels in the 'Electric Nebraska' version of BITUSA that just dropped and that is a massive YES PLEASE youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?...

Lads at the wedding when all the girls go off to dance

About to watch my team play Man Utd, something neither myself or any other #GTFC fan has done since 1948. Come on you stripey beauties 🖤🤍 🐟🐟🐟

Q: What is the perfect pop record for this time of year? A:

For many couples and families summer is the time when they can celebrate their love together. However, for the thousands separated by the spouse visa rules, it is harder still because this racist and classist policy never takes a break or never allow people to take a break from it

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Just popping in here to say the Poor Creature album is fantastic riverlea.bandcamp.com/album/all-sm...

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References the mad MIR Tory proposal from a year or so ago, which the report released today recommends isn't implemented. Let's see what the current government make of the report's recs, and which (if any) they decide to listen to

Governments and advisers should not use the human rights framework as a shield, but work out the principle. Public policy on marriage visas should be concerned to avoid exploitation/fake relationships. But should let UK citizens form genuine relationships, not restrict that to higher-rate taxpayers

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Today is a pivotal day for bi-national couples and families: for the first time people on the spouse/partner visa route were listened to by a Committee that wanted to learn what life is really like when you want to live in the UK and were moved by what we read in the report #FamiliesBelongTogether🧵

Attended an excellent pitch doc workshop with @annaruthjordan.bsky.social this week. One unexpected side-effect (unrelated to pitching) is that one of the exercises Anna had us do has led to a key breakthrough in the writing of a current project. Nice!

This is very good. Why DO we lose the art of just hanging out as we get older? (Though to be clear I've never been a huge fan of the 'pop in') www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Finally!! The streamers are to our UK TV industry as private healthcare is to the NHS. They must contribute to the fundamental infrastructures and culture of the industry they profit from and lower budget TV must be protected. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Caught this excellent film at Pittsburgh Shorts last year, fun and messy and subversive! Check it out 🍕

Proudly continuing my record of never successfully changing trains at Shenfield 🏆

Stayed in one of those hotels with too-chatty micro-copy all over the place. This was on the fridge. Good grief 😑

Save the Prince Charles Cinema you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Astonishing to think that somewhere, there exists - or perhaps, existed - a person who decided that the dishwasher we recently bought should loudly beep not once, twice or even thrice, but EIGHT times when its cycle is complete.

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Today, alongside @equityuk.bsky.social + @societyofauthors.bsky.social, we have launched a petition calling on Director-General of the BBC Tim Davie to rethink plans to eradicate audio drama from BBC Radio 3 Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC www.change.org/SADatTheBBC

Letter printed in The Times, 1st Jan 2025.

Wow. Fascinating look at the eccentric owner behind Sam Smith's pubs. Spent a lot of time in these places over the years but this is still an eye-opener www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

Adam's worth a #scriptskyuk follow and I've found his script notes to be top notch!

MUBI called me a polyglot and I think it's a compliment #mubi2024 mubi.com/en/retrospec...

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Sddödretep - one of those foldable, felt-covered storage thingies, but 2 meters long (ok it's a coffin)

Petition to help save Moth Club, one of the few remaining great independent London live music venues. Cheeky developers using cheeky tactics, you know the drill chng.it/BPCMGcLQFx

Gregg Wallace eh. Always the ones you least eggspect.

Well I didn't win the script thing BUT I finished 3rd in an international comp, had my work read by an Oscar winning screenwriter, saw it performed live, made a bunch of new friends and film contacts and had a whirlwind blast in Pittsburgh. Not a bad weekend. Now, to bed! 😴

Hi new followers! I must be on a list somewhere. I'm Pete, writer for screen and (tomorrow at least) stage. Currently in Pittsburgh at the short film festival. Happy to hear from other writers and makers! What's a great short you've seen recently?