Christopher Fettes & Frances de la Tour in an extract from ‘Theatre School’ (1993), on the problem of inequality & access for people from working class backgrounds accessing the arts. As relevant now as then #acting#education#dramacentrelondon#workingclass#actors#actorslife
@WestHam Well, as the West Ham away end sang rather gleefully at Leicester on the day we were relegated, ‘Say hello to Millwall’! 😉😂
I’m actually gutted. Seeing Spurs go down would’ve been so much better. Good luck for next season. Wish we were in The Championship! 🦊
@williamnhutton I attended one of your talks at The RSA years ago. You described Blair’s New Labour as pathetically defensive in government and the right as the ‘real reformers’ unafraid to slash and restructure. Must Burnham be so shackled now in your opinion? People are crying out for change.
@henrywinter Re: one point above - I believe I’m right in saying that Kevin Phillips helped Vardy become an even better finisher than he already was when he moved from player to coach at his short spell at Leicester.
@williamnhutton The political class really need to stop saying Starmer or Labour ‘won’ a mandate. It grates because it lacks understanding. The result of the last general election was ALL about getting The Tories out.
@robpowellnews Labour’s Cllr Chris Best was a wonderful servant to Sydenham for many years. I can’t imagine anyone working for the community as hard as she did. Penny for her thoughts today.
@robpowellnews I’ve voted Labour most of my life and lived in LB of Lewisham for many years. It was unhealthy that 50 out of 54 councillors were Labour. Not good for democracy to have zero opposition there.
@JordanJaj66 Your attitude and work ethic has been brilliant all season. You can hold your head high for what you’ve contributed this season. If only we could say the same for the majority of the rest of the first team.
@JennyAThatcher I had a wonderful sociology teacher who did a great lesson the male gaze and then added an aside at the end, ‘but there’s nothing so vicious as the female gaze’. I’ve never forgot it!
@LCFC As if a ‘price freeze’ isn’t unpopular enough considering we might be in League One you deserve the lower gates next year for forcing fans onto digital ticketing and off season ticket cards. You reap what you sow.
@lcfcrnvr True. Rodgers stubbornly playing Amartey cost us at least some points IMO. Just one of many damaging things that happened to us under his tenure.
@mjd7718@redrumlisa@technopopulist Technology has had an impact too. My job back then was essentially what Photoshop does now. We used film, sellotape, a scalpel and a fine brush. It was skilled work. I was made redundant the moment my ‘time’ ended (4 years).
@mjd7718@redrumlisa@technopopulist I think you know the answer to that! Back then ‘the print’ was highly unionised. Workers were very well paid and the directors were doing very well too. These days the ratio of earnings between the two are just far wider.
@mjd7718@redrumlisa@technopopulist I left school at 16 in 1988 and was on £7.50 an hour on a printing apprenticeship. Time & a half for anything above 34 hours a week and £15 per hour if I had to go in on Saturday. Unions have been weakened since and manufacturing offshored. The issue isn’t Boomers v younger folk.