Arts Council England has just released its funding decisions for the next three years - and opera's the one to take the hit. English National Opera no longer getting any regular funding, Royal Opera House down 10%, Welsh National Opera down 34%, Glyndebourne down 50%
I’m in the chemo clinic watching Rishi Sunak become the first person of colour to be PM. For a 1st generation migrant like me, born in Sri Lanka, it is a moment of great pride to live in a European country where this is possible. Racism is not over, but we’re on the right path.
So @KwasiKwarteng has got a severance payment of £17,000 for wrecking the economy and being sacked. That’s more than I earned in a year as a care worker.
Please retweet if you think that he should give that money to a charity.
Just caught up with the BBC Wales programme “Clive Sullivan: Rugby League Legend” about one of Cardiff’s greatest ever sportsmen.
Not just a sporting portrait but a social history too with lovely presentation by Nathan Blake
Highly recommended.
Congrats to all involved. 👍🏉
Please retweet if you want Labour, LibDems and Greens to cooperate at the next election in order to oust the Tories and introduce PR so that we never again have to endure a Tory Government with an eighty seat majority obtained with just 43% of the popular vote.
Very very strange that this story seems to be systematically removed from the web.... would be a bad thing if folks retweeted and spread it far and wide........
‘The Tory party used to be led by people who made real sacrifices. Today’s ruling class arguably have more loyalty to their own ambitions’. Matthew Syed - Sunday Times
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'Just take a breath, carry on, this too will pass.’
#RWCMD Director of Music Tim Rhys-Evans talks about the process behind 'Just Breathe' in the Making of #ASongForWales. #LandofSong
https://t.co/51ml7XleLX