Keith Nichol

Tweets on philanthropy, cultural diplomacy and whatever else takes my fancy. Also now posting on BlueSky @keithnicholdcms.bsky.social

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.

Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.

Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.

Go to the library.

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

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[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

Our Scotland. You’re an easy country to love…

#FIFAWorldCup | @FIFAWorldCup

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Happy St. George’s Day!

📜And happy birthday to William Shakespeare, born on this day 462 years ago.

We asked @JanThompsonFCDO, UK Ambassador to Norway and Shakespearean actor, to mark the occasion ⬇️

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

#SoftPower 🇯🇵🇬🇧🥁🎸

[PM's Office of Japan @JPN_PMO]

▼Prime Minister Takaichi received a courtesy call from Deep Purple and H.E. Ms. Julia Longbottom CMG, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Japan.

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

So sad to learn of the death of Sir Hayden Phillips, the first Permanent Secretary of @DCMS Working with him was an epiphany for me, and I learned more from his warmth, wit and commitment to public service than from anyone else in my career. RIP Hayden.

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

Many thanks to the @wolfsonfdn for their continued support for #museums and #galleries https://t.co/MCq1b8VSRo #philanthropy

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

"Government to unlock philanthropic investment into England's most disadvantaged communities" https://t.co/ecLEJwgIoe #philanthropy

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

Details of the £130m awarded through the Arts Everywhere Fund https://t.co/OYpjwaEZmJ

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

"UK Government and European Commission join forces to help protect Ukrainian cultural heritage" https://t.co/cHS2ARyRWx 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @FCDOGovUK @UKinUkraine

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

#CulturalDiplomacy

[Ian Murray MP @IanMurrayMP]

Great to be in Brussels to launch the first formal UK-EU cultural dialogue since Brexit.

Meeting with @glennmicallef, we discussed strengthening our relationship and working together on AI in the creative industries and improving artists working conditions.

[Keith Nichol @KeithNicholDCMS]

🇬🇧🇳🇬 #CulturalDiplomacy #SoftPower @ngBritishArts @FCDOGovUK @UKinNigeria

[Ian Murray MP @IanMurrayMP]

Culture has an amazing power to bring people together. I met with Nigeria’s Culture Minister @hanneymusawa to celebrate the UK-Nigeria Season of Culture in 2028: https://t.co/CftacBzipu

We’ll be working together to build new opportunities to grow our creative sectors.

[Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane]

I think so many in politics in general utterly fail to grasp the reality that our arts is not just a 'nice to have' - it's serious for our economy, and it's serious for our soft power. Arts, the World Service, these great British exports worth more than the sum of their parts

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

A message from His Majesty The King congratulating Team GB and teams across the Commonwealth on their successes at the Winter Olympic Games in Milano Cortina.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The King and Queen were joined by Sir Idris Elba at Barking & Dagenham Rush Green Campus.

🎨 The college offers a range of technical and professional education courses to students. Their Majesties met students taking part in fashion, plumbing, healthcare and cookery workshops.

🎬 The King and Queen also joined Sir Idris, alumnus of the college and @KingsTrust, at the state-of-the-art TV and film studios named in his honour.

[The Olympic Games @Olympics]

🥇 The FIRST-EVER skeleton mixed team Olympic #Gold medal goes to Great Britain!

Tabitha STOECKER and Matt WESTON [GBR] slide to success at #MilanoCortina2026! 🛷✨ With Matt Weston winning his second gold of the Games. 🤩

@IBSFsliding | @TeamGB | #MedalAlert | #Samsung | #OpenAlwaysWins

[Team GB @TeamGB]

CHARLOTTE BANKES AND HUW NIGHTINGALE YOU SUPERSTARS!!! 🥇

It’s a GOLD MEDAL in the mixed snowboard cross! 🔥

#TeamGB | #MilanoCortina2026

[The Prince and Princess of Wales @KensingtonRoyal]

Celebrating heritage, creativity and craftmanship in West Wales today.

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Dathlu treftadaeth, dawn greadigol a chrefftwaith yng Ngorllewin Cymru heddiw.

[Stig Abell @StigAbell]

Folk say Shakespeare is hard to understand, but it isn’t when it is delivered like this by Ian McKellen. Amazing how the language flows and stops to flow again, immediately comprehensible even to the modern ear. Both of them geniuses in their own way.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🇬🇧🇺🇦 A message from The King celebrating the first anniversary of the 100 Year Partnership between the UK and Ukraine.

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

Alongside our European allies, the UK made clear again today: Greenland belongs to its people, and its future is a matter for the Greenlanders and Danes.