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Freelance Writing Tutor - Evening Workshops for Adults, Landmark Arts Centre :: National Association of Writers in Education ::

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Freelance Writing Tutor - Evening Workshops for Adults, Landmark Arts Centre
Deadline: 17/10/2025 - London
We are expanding our pool of freelance writing tutors to lead creative writing workshops for adult learners in the evenings (Monday–Friday) www.nawe.co.uk/DB/jobs-and-...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 24

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Sep 24

"The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another." Toni Morrison
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We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion

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Home - Screen Industries Growth Network - screen business support

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Sep 22

FREE teaching materials & resources related to graduate skills in the screen industries, created as part of the SIGN network.
Employability and career launch
Problem Solving
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Technological developments
Screen industries – now and in the future
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SIGN provided business support, training, development and research to support growth of the screen industries in Yorkshire and the Humber.

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StoryLab Conversations Editorial Board Introductions

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Sep 22

StoryLab Conversations is an online narrative filmmaking publication for enquiring filmmakers to explore their form through practice-led conversations with their creative peers. See link for more info.
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The StoryLab Conversations Editorial Board welcomes participants in the new online practice publication project.

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What If ICE Was Around During Slavery? - Ian Edwards - Stand Up Comedy

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Sep 15

Where were ICE 200 hundred years ago when slaves needed them?
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YouTube video by Ian Edwards

Welcome .Nottingham Green Festival Nottingham Green Festival

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Sep 14

Various talks and workshops were cancelled from the Green Festival today at the last minute because the insurer refused to cover anything deemed political, religious, or cultural. A nature workshop encouraging preservation falls within this definition...
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The Green Festival is organised by community volunteers. The ethical standards & sustainability / human / animal rights ethos of the event are long established

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Locating D.H. Lawrence: September 1925

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's September 1925 and D.H. Lawrence is ready to return to Blighty for a bit, though he finds the Atlantic an 'unsympathetic' ocean with barely a friendly fish! #booksky #1920s #literaryletters
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Entertainer founder hands over toy shop chain to staff

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Sep 3

The global fact-checking community is confronting growing uncertainty, compounded by rapid technological shifts such as the rise of generative AI, and the policies of the Orange One in the White House. Get involved here...
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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Entertainer offsets the rampant greed and profit obsession of our times by handing over ownership of their toy shop chain to staff.
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The toy retailer's 1,900 workers will get a share of profits and a say in how the business is run.

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Aug 11

Talk on 'DH Lawrence and Nottingham' at Erewash Museum, Ilkeston, on Wednesday 13 August at 1pm given by local English teacher Michael Rumble. This is part of this year's Ilkeston Community Arts Festival, more details at www.ictaf.org #Nottingham ##dhlawrence

Ilkeston 2024 week long festival and other eventshome | Ictaf

The events making up the 2024 Ilkeston festival and why the Ilkeston community theatre and festival group (ICTAF) was set up.

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Locating D.H. Lawrence: August 1925

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Aug 11

Step back to August 1925 to the literary salon of Philadelphia's Centaur Press, who had recently published D.H.Lawrence. #booksky #amreading #1920s #books
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Ian Hislop shares the joke that got someone arrested | LBC

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Aug 4

Join 'An Absolute Necessity to Move' on Substack if you have any interest in D.H.Lawrence. Monthly posts. anabsolutenecessitytomove.substack.com/subscribe?ut...

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 30

'The state is making an idiot of itself'
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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 29

Top book on Sicily.
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Shelfie: The Invention of Sicily

Sicily sits at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and for over 2,000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It is equidistant from Rome and Tripoli, closer to Tunis than N…

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 29

"There are languages in which the words ‘past,’ “present,’ or “future” do not exist. Would speakers of those languages perceive time—and therefore life, renewal, mortality or death—the same way as we do?"
Wonderful words as always from Elif Shafak #booksky
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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak | Substack

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks. Click to read Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shaf...

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Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan

jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 28

"Independent publishers are dropping any problematic subjects and instead branching out into new areas, such as Asian cultures and art history. She sees this as “a form of ideological opposition and survival in this totalitarian nightmare”."

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Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work, says journalist Anna Aslanyan

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · Jul 27

The first unmanned flying weapon was launched over a century ago – the full implications of that flight are only now being understood

✏️ Tom Arms & Greg Treverton

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 27

Really looking forward to George Saunders' new book in Jan 2026 in which he considers how certain politicians and business people from the 1980s who worked hard to debunk the science around climate change, might be feeling now. #booksky

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 26

Advert for a dentist in Exmouth.

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 8

How dare people read Dostoevsky on the beach while slurping ice creams complains D.H.Lawrence in July 1925. youtu.be/-fJexjO_wFc?... #booksky

Locating Lawrence July 1925

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Locating Lawrence July 1925

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 8

How dare people read Dostoevsky on the beach while slurping ice creams complains D.H.Lawrence in July 1925. youtu.be/-fJexjO_wFc?... #booksky

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BREAKING! John Deere SHUTS DOWN Production In US And Trumps Reaction Says It All!

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jameswalker2024.bsky.social @jameswalker2024.bsky.social · Jul 8

Nostalgia vs innovation: John Deere stands up to MAGA mafioso and opens production in Mexico.
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