Alison Goldie
@alisongoldie.bsky.social
Storyteller, actor, coach, political animal, arts lover. Author of The Improv Book: Improvisation for Theatre, Comedy, Education and Life (Bloomsbury). Short Stories on alisongoldie.substack.com Social media marketing dabbler for comedy types.
People of Hackney! Dunno why our Green council is making this ill-advised move but lets try and stop it so that yet more creators/teachers don’t bite the dust c.org/kmQyZTFvvQ #hackneycouncil #hackney
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I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
FFS. Approaching Yr 8 of the pandemic. So fucking tired of watching people get killed & disabled every week because of gov'mnt / public health / NHS incompetence & misinformation. #CovidIsAirborne Washing your hands is fucking irrelevant. Clean the fucking air & mask up (FFP2/3) you useless cunts.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · last mo.A COVID-19 outbreak has been confirmed at Antrim Area Hospital in Northern Ireland. Infection-control protocols were introduced in a limited number of clinical areas to reduce transmission. The Trust said: “We continue to ask patients, visitors and staff to follow good hand hygiene practices”🤦♂️
Emily Wilson clearly knows her stuff and is entitled to her opinion but I came out of The Odyssey with a great big smile on my face and a spring in my jaded old step. #TheOdyssey
@damianbarr.bsky.social Just listened to Operation Rex in its entirety.Wonderful. An aspect of WW2 history I never knew about and a gripping and life-affirming story
@greenparty.org.uk Please don’t stand in Clacton. We need Farage to be up against joke candidates only for him to be royally humiliated.
Creepy frog face grifter wants to look heroic again by ‘fighting’ in tired old Clacton (has he done much of note there? Last time I visited, it had a terrible bleakness). I smell a great big shitty mess on the horizon for Nigel. Can’t wait.
Feeling sad after watching Rick Mayall: Magnificent B’stard. A born performer, more vibrant than any other 10 other comics put together, his demise began with a regular human failing…He made us laugh so much for so long. Lovely bonkers Rick.
Reform U.K. is for people who have tattoos of their children but not custody of them.
Coming to the end of my second reading of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell whilst staying in a hotel that reminds me of another Susanna Clarke novel.
Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
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I’ve written a new short story about glamour, reality and mother/daughter fighting open.substack.com/pub/alisongo...
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Happy celestial birthday to Black American actor, activist, singer, and international working class hero Paul Robeson April 9, 1898—January 23, 1976 🎞 He sings 'Joe Hill' in support of Scottish miners in 1949, it became an anthem for civil rights, and political resistance against oppression.
I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week
Loving this revamp of an old poster for this essential upcoming march
Yet again, I wake up in a world run by a furious baby and I have to make myself move and carry on and believe in better things
There’s a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.
What it feels like for this girl. From the FB feed of Rebecca Solnit, source unknown.
What a slimy creep Mandelson always was. There isn’t a socialist bone in his body. He was always a chancer who took power and money wherever he could, and oiled his way with his vampiric charm. Loathsome.
Excellent summary of how we’ve been betrayed and how we betray ourselves (US commentator but of course, relevant for us all)
Randi Mayem Singer@rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 9mo agoYou need to listen to this whole thing.