The key lesson of the Trump victory for us is that Labour has to deliver the significant improvement in quality of life that people can feel or we face the rise of right wing populism that has swept America. Half measures won’t be enough.
The decimation of libraries probably affects under 5s - the age where reading for pleasure is established - more than any other group. Books for little kids are short and expensive, but you used to be able to go to a library and take 5 different ones home every week.
Further evidence of the corporate capture of the Labour Party.
Amazon gives money to Tony Blair’s think tank TBI.
TBI develops policies and lobbies Labour.
Those policies benefit Amazon.
See how it works?
loved the history boys @RichmondTheatre. deft and ferocious and sprinting through pop songs and heartbreak and poetry and loss and thoughts and feelings put down twenty years ago still reaching out towards you. Congrats @SeanLinnen and whole team. Ends tomorrow !
in a shocking twist, climate change is infinitely more disruptive and deadly than the actions of those trying to thwart it! good job we threw them all in jail though!
It’s literally impossible to become a billionaire without monopolising the wealth created by others, and the fact that senior BBC presenters seem unable even to conceive of this reality is extraordinary.
Scrapping the £2 bus fare is an absurdly regressive policy. Buses are overwhelmingly used by working-class people who can ill afford the hundreds of pounds extra this policy will cost them.
so glad I caught the last day of Comedy of Errors @The_Globe - an absolute riot and the most joyful way to spend a Sunday. Congrats to the whole team !
thought autumn @ParkTheatre was gorgeous tonight. tender and bittersweet and kaleidoscopic and affectionate and dreamlike and memories and everything forgotten and resilience in dying light. Congrats to @charlvickers , @_DandyHarold and whole team !