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🎪Glastonbury Festival is uniquely intertwined with the historic movements of Traveller communities.
🐎John Doe, a Romany man who's been part of Atchin Tan since the beginning, explores the significance of horses pulling onto @glastonbury for the first time in over 30 years.
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Tom Gill retweeted
“Black women don’t get to make light of their gaffe-making, impulsive remarks or off-colour comments. They don’t get to have bad days. Anything short of exemplary personal behaviour would result in public retribution & humiliation.” And here we are. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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There is only one leader who has successfully nailed the “wet jacket in a time of critical national importance” look…
This is a great piece of journalism which is, at its heart, about the effect of internet-first socialising on young men
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“The poorest fifth of the population are now much poorer [in the UK] than most of the poorest countries in central and eastern Europe,” says @MyStephanomics. “They would be better off in quite poor countries in the European Union.”
Grindr was launched 15 years ago today. Here’s a new one from me on its impact (good and bad) and why it remains important. Mainly just chuffed my Sex and the City opener made it in.
‘There’s a gay bar in my pocket!’: how 15 years of Grindr has affected gay communities and dating culture theguardian.com/technology/2…
No one in their right mind can look at this story and say that private investment in public services is in the best interests of the state. Capitalism is broken. Imagine working for one of these PFI companies, the mind boggles how these people sleep
Tom Gill retweeted
“The arts are not the cherry on the cake — they are the cake.”
Opening a debate in the House of Lords yesterday, Melvyn Bragg said the UK should realise the full potential of the arts to transform our economy and society.
I grew up on hyperbolic Australian TV ads but let me tell you the bar has been raised here my friends 🤠 Truly quite something
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Tom Gill retweeted
Looking around at the sudden outbreak of public awareness and political engagement for the post office scandal and wondering if and when this will happen for Grenfell and the building safety crisis
Probably the most interesting thing you’ll read today
🧵 The historic NYT v. @OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast.
Tl;dr - It's the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. 👇
Culture is our DNA 🧬
Justine Simons @justinesimons1 has played a central role in the cultural transformation of London @LDN_Culture for the past two decades.
As Founder& Chair of @wccforum she's the first to feature in our #CulturalLeadership campaign showcasing our network's inspirational leaders.
Tom Gill retweeted
Anna Maxwell Martin in motherland is our generation’s Basil Fawlty and we should worship
Tom Gill retweeted
Great to see 12 of our cites feature on @TimeOut list of world’s 20 best cities for culture right now, including Buenos Aires @gcba, @Edinburgh_CC, Vienna & @cityofmelbourne.
Investing in culture improves wellbeing, attracts tourists & boosts economies 👏
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