The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn 🏥
Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn 💸
They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to.
RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses 👊
We always get a bit nervous when my brother is asked to do something public facing (bad experiences in the past) but the @TimeOutSydney LARP-ing article was very sensitively written - thank you ☺️ https://t.co/pCU2J1s7un
@fieldmusicmusic I think about this all the time! Over-reliance on live income to cover the no income from recorded jacks up ticket prices to a level that doesn't consider audiences, and now no one is winning. A solution exists but no clue what it is yet. Micro-communities funding artists maybe?
Liverpool will host #Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine…and it’s gonna be proper boss 👍
🇬🇧🇺🇦 Find out all about Liverpool 2023 right here: https://t.co/a1zGojGfbr
A girls' school in Iran brought a member of the IRGC-run Basij paramilitary to speak to students. The girls welcomed the speaker by taking off their headscarves & chanting "get lost, Basiji".
Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days.
https://t.co/kvskgB8qas
The North East’s best new music festival @GeneratorLiveNE is back for 2023 - the only festival to exclusively celebrate NE talent ✨
Early bird tickets are on sale now for Generator Live’s return to Boiler Shop on Sat 16th Sep 2023: https://t.co/mgGZA4XDEw
@greg_jenner This is the article that explains why for most people the answer would be yes. Personally it probably wasn't my favourite song at the time but I was aware it in my teens (Roy Orbison - Crying)
httpss://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/favorite-songs.html
Super gutted to not be going to TwitchCon this weekend (flights cancelled, no trains available, 6.5 months pregnant so don't want to risk new flights) but can't wait for the stories, the snaps, please flood us with them so we can live vicariously through you!
Amazing work on behalf of the @GeneratorNE team who have poured their blood, sweat and tears into this. I'm gutted not to be there (train strikes) but for those who do go it's going to be a special showcase of some of the NEs best musical exports
For people who have been studying the misinformation campaign around the Depp v Heard trial, this verdict is chilling. The success of Depp’s “redemption arc” narrative reveals a lot about our social media platforms and ourselves.
A thread of things I learned during Depp v Heard: