Andy Challis

Skills and education strategy at City & Guilds. Also other stuff. All views my own.

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

“From every human being, there shines a light.”

Holocaust survivors, like my great grandmother Lily Ebert, are powerful lights that shine bright through darkness and guide us, making the world a brighter place.

Wishing everyone a warm & wonderful Chanukah 🍩🕎❤️

[City & Guilds @cityandguilds]

"We have a system that is baking in inequality and making social mobility increasingly unlikely."

says @K_DonnellyCEO on our #YouthMisspent findings.

[Museum of the Moving Image @MovingImageNYC]

Best known for his collaborations with David Lynch (including TWIN PEAKS, BLUE VELVET, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE), famed composer Angelo Badalamenti has passed away.

(1937-2022)

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

What John Atkinson Grimshaw achieves in his moonlight pictures, is a fine sense of atmosphere, poetry, and mood made up of simple components. The enduring fascination of such paintings is their apparent simplicity creating a view back in time, to a golden age that never was.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Colour films are insanely rare in the 1920s, which makes this 26-part travelogue of the UK exceptional. Filmed in 1924 by Claude Friese-Greene using his father's colour process invention, I've edited a preview for Twitter, but it is now available on DVD, restored by the BFI 😍

[Andy Challis @ajchallis]

@mrsambarlow Ah the morphic resonance rabbit hole! Don't know this experiment specifically but Sheldrake is prob the best way in https://t.co/1gNRQJZC61 https://t.co/LLyvH4u7HO Also play Zero Escape games, esp the first two - great fun, and full of this sort of stuff

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Vivian Maier, US street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death #WomensArt

[Antoinette Sandbach @Sandbach]

Out walking the dogs and the #mummering of the #starlings is like a magical bird dance only I am seeing

[Andy Challis @ajchallis]

Fantastic project, this dashboard as it evolves will save so much digging and data work. Direct link - https://t.co/T9I4NmOOW0 - v interested to see how it develops from here

[Richard Davies @RD_Economist]

📈📈📈V1 of a new project for @EconObservatory just finished - a fully API linked dashboard. I've made some of these charts a thousand times - never again! If you want to help build the Observatory's Data Hub pls get in touch. Big news soon on this... Links in bio.

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

Reminder: the National Trust has been independent & free of interference from political parties, private business and lobbying companies for 127 years. We mustn’t take our institutions for granted. If you’re a member please use your vote by this Friday https://t.co/D1SWbjNtdu

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner]

We may get a new Prime Minister today. But how, I hear you ask, can @RishiSunak unite the Conservatives and reverse a 36-point deficit by 2024?

With exquisite timing, @jim_blagden and I have a big report out today for @ukonward, based on a 10k @JLPartnersPolls poll. Thread: 1/14

[GlennyRodge @GlennyRodge]

Actually, a lettuce just told me Boris is coming back. I think that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

[Andy Challis @ajchallis]

Absolutely, including #FurtherEducation and #vocational #skills - perennially under invested, but essential to growth

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

"If the UK cannot get education right, it won’t get anything right on productivity, employment, economic growth or indeed tackling social disorder and rising crime." ☑️ @QMPoliticsIR's @PatrickDiamond1 https://t.co/aC260nb2Tt

[Ranged Touch @rangedtouch]

On Monday, after a run of intense episodes, JUST KING THINGS takes a more lighthearted detour into a crime-slasher revenge-thriller with supernatural elements. Sound up for the preview below, and subscribe here: https://t.co/LSvnUaAN8J

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Household wealth is eight times incomes - meaning that it's becoming increasingly difficult for earnings to become a route to wealth. Instead, inheritances have become increasingly important.

[FT Weekend @ftweekend]

'A cruel twist in this tale is that minorities in Russia sometimes view military service as a means for them to garner more status and economic clout.' @gilliantett addresses how Russia's mobilisation ruling has exploded the myth of Putin’s united Russia https://t.co/0TsI6wTmK7

[Andy Challis @ajchallis]

Just incredible

[YouGov @YouGov]

Our latest VI poll has Labour with a *33pt* lead over the Tories, the highest of any recorded poll since the late 1990s. (Fieldwork 28-29 Sep)

Con: 21% (-7 from 23-25 Sep)
Lab: 54% (+9)
Lib Dem: 7% (-2)
Green: 6% (-1)
Reform UK: 4% (+1)
SNP: 5% (+1)

https://t.co/qjE87FPC0i

[Alan Whitehead @alanwhiteheadmp]

On her broadcast round this morning, the Prime Minister said that, thanks to the gov intervention, “people across this country are not facing energy bills of more than £2,500” this year. Not only is this downright wrong, it’s wildly dangerous – a thread 🧵 1/

[Charlotte Lynch @charlotterlynch]

BREAKING: Doncaster Sheffield airport to close. They'll start to wind down at the end of October.

In her first PMQs just over two weeks ago, Liz Truss said she'd protect it. @LBC