David Evans-Powell
@davidep82.bsky.social
Theatre, horror, Doctor Who, Eurovision, history, arts, old British TV and film. Loves the kitsch and the weird. Mini schnauzer dad 🏳️🌈 Trans rights are human rights. Co-host of Rambling Through Eternity: https://shorturl.at/S5Iuw Insta: @davidevanspowell
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
theguardian.com
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to stand still and take it, we're supporting a legal challenge led by a trans person and a trans inclusive organisation. But we can only do this together. Will you join us?👇 goodlaw.social/ldco
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
Let my CFP go forth into the world! Naturally, if you know me, you'll know my own research has focused on guildhalls for a couple of years now - but I've long wanted a book that considers other "theatres" of the Renaissance. So please, come and join me in proposing chapters 🙏
Dr. Will Green@drwillgreen.bsky.social · 2d agoAhead of launching the actual CFP, thought I'd give a little preview of a thing I'm doing 🫢
Labour genuinely seems to think that Keir Starmer was the problem, not the xenophobic, authoritarian mindset he propounded. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d agoVery disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.
*Government: we need a sense of place and stronger regional policy to bring us together! *Also government: it's okay to shut this local uni campus in an area of high deprivation! *Thick-as-mince country. No joined-up thinking anywhere. 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Essex's Southend campus shuts and staff say goodbye
The university says the closure is due to financial pressures, leading to 400 staff redundancies.
bbc.co.uk
Struck by how rarely you hear or see any political figure talk about climate change this bluntly.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”
Am never going to stop saying these things, even once British HE feels like a cold, dead moon.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago*Government: we need a sense of place and stronger regional policy to bring us together! *Also government: it's okay to shut this local uni campus in an area of high deprivation! *Thick-as-mince country. No joined-up thinking anywhere. 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
It is Lammas tomorrow. A remarkable Lammas poem by Ian Duhig. Dark, full of regret & strangeness.
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
I’m just basing this on what other species do when one of their own goes rogue but I feel like if a guy’s business model involves making everybody stupid & gatekeeping the collectively earned knowledge of humankind in order to charge people for it we kind of have to rip apart & eat that guy.
Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · last wk.“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.
We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Pretty locations + lovable lead in quirky job/with neurodiversity/both + eccentric and thinly written cast of supporting characters + bloodless and semi-comical murders + basic whodunnit structure dressed up in theme-of-the-week trappings = 90% current UK telly (and I'm here for this tbf lol)
Ok, normally I don't mind that like six people see my posts but it's inconvenient when I have a question like this. Any classics types know if The Odyssey is the first known example of Bad Guy Kicks Dog?
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
campaignforthearts.org
It is not just science and technology subjects that are crucial to tackling our polycrises: the creative sector is also vital A debate on creative education in the #HouseofLords nataliebennett.org/2026/07/23/d...
Because Reform councillors are so corrupt, idiotic and unquestioning themselves, they need to be given a script to protect dear leader. Farage’s spokesman clearly knows it off by heart. But answering “hit job” to all attempts at scrutiny is about as infantile and unconvincing as it gets. (Times)
It’s always lovely to talk witch Icy, this time about accused witches fighting back in medieval Austria!
Dr Icy Sedgwick@icysedgwick.bsky.social · 3w agoIn this episode of Fabulous Folklore, I chat to @witchesetc.bsky.social about Helena Scheuberin's witchcraft trial in 1485 in Innsbruck, how her clash with Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer led to the Malleus Maleficarum, and how the book contributed to later witch trials... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM8o...
This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
I can think of few companies who have so much goodwill backed up. I've missed them, and I wish them so much success. Welcome home. networkonair.com/blog/post/6-...
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Hello. We’re Network. Not the same old Network. We’re a brand-new team, excited and dedicated to making Britain’s TV and film heritage available to everyone.
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One day there will be so many panel shows the government will send out letters asking us to each do an episode, like jury duty, but instead of solving crimes we'll be answering questions about what "67" means and how many Tic Tacs Romesh can stick up his hooter x
Chortle@chortle.bsky.social · 2w agoKatherine Ryan to host Top Trumps panel show
This is a must read. Not just the usual suspects but how these usual suspects were able to gag and blackmail British institutions. Shocking and terrifying. And the article needs spreading far and wide.
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3w agoNEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
Awesome article from @thenerve.news reflecting on the Festival of Britain 75 years on www.thenerve.news/p/phin-harpe...
The Festival of Britain’s boldest dream has been forgotten
Down the road from London’s South Bank landmarks, the exhibition committee built a model social housing estate – for everyone, for the future. Seventy-five years on, where is that spirit now? By Phine...
thenerve.news
Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?
