Daniel Shields

Subject leader of Media and Film Studies

[Daniel Shields @mediamrshields]

Moving to Mastodon. Leaving the X space. On the main instance as @[email protected].

[Daniel Shields @mediamrshields]

Superb film

[Film4 @Film4]

Amy Adams plays a grieving linguist recruited to help communicate with a new species during an alien invasion 🛸

Be prepared for a close encounter with Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi drama Arrival, tonight at 9pm and streaming for 30 days.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The concept of schooling to boost employability — leading to current, punishing accountability programs hammering students and teachers — became ubiquitous by eclipsing earlier philosophies that elevated the democracy-supporting role of public education.
https://t.co/8IeAHPEvTA

[WyedeanMedia @WyedeanMedia]

GCSE Media - Like a rock star coming into the building’: the return of The Archers’ most iconic villain https://t.co/kKHcsPBNZ7

[Jeffrey Boakye @jeffreykboakye]

My latest piece in the Guardian: what is a literary ‘canon’ and is it time to reimagine the concept? https://t.co/24aiGjClsc

[Daniel Shields @mediamrshields]

Can't wait
https://t.co/zopoaXHXKy

[Britain People @Britain_People]

LEGAL FEES: #PARTYGATE

🔴BORIS JOHNSON'S taxpayer-funded legal bill RISES to £245,000

👉RETWEET if he should pay his own legal fees.

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

The time has come for me to ensure you can make the show you’ve dreamed of.

We’re here to facilitate a generation of people from working class backgrounds and beyond to create their vision.

We are the production company you’ve been waiting for.

Let’s do this @gillisles

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Let’s do a little poll…

Should MPs be allowed to take donations/ earn money/ accept hospitality from people and companies associated with private healthcare?

Please RT to increase the number of people responding 💙

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Well, well, well. It looks like the BBC aired a cut version of a BAFTA winner's speech when she dared to criticise the government. So I'm doing my little bit to spread the word, to ensure more people hear what @siobhni said than would have if they'd just left it alone. RT!

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

RT if you want me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2024.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘sequacity’ (17th century): blind subservience, a lack of independent thought, and a readiness to follow someone no matter what they do or say.

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

When Amazon and Tesco join a ‘coalition of compassion’, you know the welfare state is failing | Gordon Brown | The Guardian https://t.co/Rx1IGNizg8

[National Education Union @NEUnion]

Today, @NEUnion members are striking as we continue our fight to get the Government to #PayUp and #SaveOurSchools – RT if you support them.

Send a short message/video of support here. 👉 https://t.co/qw95QJ0241

[No Film School @nofilmschool]

Star Wars trailer in the style of Wes Anderson

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

RT if you’d rather swear allegiance to Count Binface than King Charles III.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴ETON: TAXPAYER-SUBSIDISED

▪️The RNLI isn't subsidised by the taxpayer.

▪️But ELITE public schools such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester are.

👉RETWEET if you agree public schools shouldn't be exempt from tax.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

KING CHARLES CORONATION

CORONATION costing British TAXPAYER £100 million

Despite King Charles reportedly having a personal net fortune of £600 million.

RETWEET if you agree this is an obscene waste of public funds, especially during a cost of living crisis.

[Matt Green @mattgreencomedy]

Dog Whistles & More!