Claire Stone

Public Engagement @HeadwayELondon // Producer #IAmATheatre @CleanBrk // #HubsAsHosts // @CostEdinburgh // Director @feralfoxyladies // Fellow @artsfundraising

[Claire Stone @clastone]

Thank you so much to @ohrhealy for taking on this sensitive and complex issue with great insight, and sharing the real impact on performers of #EdinburghFringe

It was eye opening to research the @CostEdinburgh and I'm glad it's being raised, but now we need to see progress!

[Rachael Healy @ohrhealy]

“Who is the fringe for? It should be for artists, but it feels like it’s for landlords.”
Do comedians still need to do the Fringe to progress their careers? I spoke to some who are skipping it this year, plus the researchers looking at the true costs https://t.co/WZjFo3jvkr

[Child Poverty Action Group @CPAGUK]

Our head of education policy @kate_cpag speaking to BBC News about what free school meals expansion means.

[Child Poverty Action Group @CPAGUK]

‘A game-changer for children and families. We hope this is a sign of what's to come in the autumn's child poverty strategy, with government taking more action to meet its manifesto commitment to reduce child poverty in the UK.’ - @kate_cpag https://t.co/xhZJnjXKOt

[Claire Stone @clastone]

Brilliant audience questions too on how to balance the practical with ideal; "sensible" vs necessary; and resist factionalism in a world where scarcity is coming.

@Rships_Project I mentioned your talk to @NaomiAKlein on the power of community & connection to withstand crises 🫂

[Claire Stone @clastone]

Fantastic talk tonight by @NaomiAKlein discussing #Doppelganger hosted by @mlothianmclean @howtoacademy - refreshing and stark to hear so much truth shared about the state of politics, society and the climate, and how interrelated all our problems are. Brave and clear-sighted.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I call on advertising & PR companies to stop acting as enablers to planetary destruction by working for the fossil fuel industry.

Stop taking on new fossil fuel clients & set out plans to drop your existing ones.

They are poisoning our planet & they are toxic for your brand.

[ITV News @itvnews]

‘I’m going to stop you now. This is ridiculous’

Tory chair Richard Holden repeatedly refuses to deny his candidate selection was a stitch-up

The senior Conservative was very keen to talk about comments made on schools by Labour's Emily Thornberry

[Equity @EquityUK]

We are witnessing a lost generation of working class talent because of the crisis in arts education and years of underfunding of the arts.

We must not allow the arts to be dominated by the privileged and wealthy.

Join the fight back @equity_class

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

Can I be honest with you? I didn’t want to start the programme talking about the Conservative claim that a Labour Government would cost you £2,000 in extra taxes.

It’s obviously been disputed. Not just because it’s cumulative rather than annual – but because it’s based on an awful lot of assumptions, with some of the conclusions even being disowned by the authors who did the research.

But look – I’m being sucked down the rabbit hole now too.

There are two reasons I don’t want to talk about the £2,000 claim.

The first is because the Conservatives WANT us to talk about it – because even if we’re discussing the fact the number is being disputed, we’re still talking about Labour putting up tax.

But the second reason is even more important.
The parties are both arguing about whether each others sums add up.
Well… they don’t, do they?

Both of them are promising they won’t raise income tax, national insurance, or VAT – three fifths of the total tax revenue. Nobody wants to borrow other than to invest. Health, schools and defence are all ring fenced from spending cuts in some form.

I genuinely don’t understand how this all adds up. Not even close.
Public spending projections after the next election have been described as a “fantasy” by economists – the tax burden is set to hit a historic high - and we’re spending more on debt interest payments than education.

Forget about the quibbling over a few numbers here and there. Because it doesn’t seem to me like ANY party is being honest about just how difficult it will be after the election… and the kind of choices that the next Government will have to make – no matter who it turns out to be.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

How dare Sunak blame industrial action when it's his party which has chronically underpaid NHS workers and brought every single one of our public services to a state of crisis. #ITVDebate

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Sunak "For the first time in UK history pensioners will pay tax". Is very inaccurate phrasing. Pensioners do pay tax just like everyone else. What he's talking about is paying tax if you get the full State Pension and have no other income. #ITVdebate

[Ridge & Frost @RidgeandFrost]

How much has tax gone up under the Conservatives over the last parliamentary term, per household?

"It's difficult to calculate..." - @BimAfolami

'I can tell you... taxes have gone up £13,000 per household since 2019', says @SophyRidgeSky.

#PoliticsHub https://t.co/GlTNastFii

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Nurses have declared a national emergency in the NHS, warning that patients are dying in hospital corridors

This is yet more evidence of the devastation the Conservatives have done to our health service

The 4th of July can’t come quickly enough

https://t.co/uLjd1uU2CN

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special: 1. The Economy

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” (The Great Gatsby)

[Secret Headteacher @secretHT1]

Ah.

All those children who don’t go to private school is because their parents didn’t work hard enough or aspire to that education for their kids.

Of course.

Clearly, aspiring to a good state education is not worth bothering with.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

The Big Short: Rishi Sunak 🛁

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

What a shameful thing for a UK PM at a time of global climate crisis to shrug his shoulders and say it's not for us to try to solve the problem. We have a responsibility. We made legal & global commitments. And the future is at stake #ITVDebate

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

We are officially in #recession

This Tory govt is an amoral clique of charlatans which has
🔹siphoned off billions to Tory associates
🔹ridden roughshod over our freedoms and
🔹STOLEN THE HOPE of millions of children.

#Rishession
https://t.co/Z1yRQacByh

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Lovely Community Notes taking down @RishiSunak for his untruths ⏬️

This message below is jaw dropping in its level of arrogance and disrespect for voters.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The NHS waiting list has increased under the last SEVEN Conservative prime ministers.

Please RT if you think everyone should be aware.