Professional Googler, unprofessional arts campaigner. Tech policy by day, trustee @_CFTA and @RoundhouseLDN, adviser to @WhatNextCulture also by day.
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Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
🏴 The Scottish Government has restored cuts to arts funding after months of campaigning by 25,000 of our supporters.
👍 Next year's Budget returns £6.6m to Creative Scotland & recommits this funding.
👎 But after inflation, the culture budget will be 6% smaller than in 2022-3.
Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
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Shocking news: the Scottish Government is breaking its promise on arts funding.
In February, thousands joined our campaign to speak out against a £6.6 million cut to Creative Scotland.
It worked. Ministers abandoned the cut.
But now they're bringing it back.
Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
🚨 NEW: the decline in arts education at A-level has reached a new low.
Our analysis of today's results finds that arts subjects now account for a smaller proportion of A-level entries than at any time since 2010.
Over that period, there's been a 29% drop.
#ArtsEducationMatters
Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
Evan Gershkovich has now spent two weeks in Russian prison for doing his job.
Let him go.
Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
Would call that a win for the very effective
@_CFTA
🏴 Phenomenal news coming out of Scotland today, driven by an incredible cohort of arts advocates (obvs am very proud to be a trustee of one of the orgs involved)🥰⬇️ Well done Scottish Govt for seeing sense! It takes political guts to have a change of heart - a great decision.
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JUST ANNOUNCED: The Scottish Government has completely abandoned its plans to cut funding for Creative Scotland, after more than 15,000 people signed our urgent petition to #StopTheCuts.
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Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
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JUST ANNOUNCED: The Scottish Government has completely abandoned its plans to cut funding for Creative Scotland, after more than 15,000 people signed our urgent petition to #StopTheCuts.
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Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
These cuts are worrying for arts in Scotland. Emergency campaign launched to 'bring Scottish culture back from brink' Hope there can be a re-think. Scotland’s cultural scene has been flourishing. Would be a shame to imperil that. scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a…
The SNP are about to make devastating cuts to the Scottish arts budget. So @_CFTA has launched an campaign launched to 'bring Scottish culture back from brink' scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a…
Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
Exciting news! @weareforthearts and @Public_Campaign are today joining forces to form a new organisation, #CampaignForTheArts.
Please RT this and follow us at @_CFTA. Together we represent more than a quarter of a million people, and together we’re stronger.
An absolutely wonderful dog, #Zola, has gone missing around #haggerston #hackney #islington. She is one of my dog Agnes’ great friends. If you live locally and have connections on neighbourhood groups (email/WA/FB) please share widely and let’s get her home.
Here are Aggie and Zo having a lovely friendly lick 2 weeks ago. Plenty more of this next time they see each other! Hooray for stories with happy endings.
Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
Still missing #Zola
Got loose near the edge of Haggerston Park, when walked by a friend.
99% certain she has run scared into streets she does not know. Likely to have lost her tag, but has collar / chipped. Checking vets/ pounds. All help gratefully appreciated #DogsOnTwitter
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I know how much @EmmaFrancesDean did to make this incredibly important piece of work happen. It's easy to feel cynical about politics but this kind of work is what it's all about theguardian.com/society/2022…
Rosie Johnston-Luff retweeted
EXC🚨: Dozens of women have been sexually assaulted by massage therapists, at home.
Our investigation has found that masseurs are able to continue seeing and attacking clients - even after being arrested for sexual offences - due to a lack of regulation.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62081247
This happened to me. I can’t tell you how devastating it was discover that there is *NOTHING* in place to stop the man who attacked me from doing it again. There should be very urgent action to regulate the massage industry - friends in government / politics, we need your help.
A BBC investigation has found women are being sexually assaulted by massage therapists in their own homes.
Experts are calling for stricter regulation in a sector that has little oversight.
Listen to File on 4 tonight at 8pm on @BBCRadio4
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62081247
Plus: with the criminal justice system failing women on rape/sexual assaults, there’s evidence that police forces are dealing with the same masseuses being repeatedly reported for the same crime: but they rarely get charged, let alone sentenced. So back to work these men go.