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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know why 15 years of Tories made you think they placed any value in the arts

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Laughs in Palestinian

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 1d

A gamechanger

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 1d

This is no surprise

pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer calling pro-Palestine protestors "un-British" barely counts as a dogwhistle tbh, it's straight up racism.

I don't remember him calling Just Stop Oil "un-British" no matter how annoyed he got

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 2d

I know people like to say the world is too adult for children now, but a generation of kids grew up with their first glimpse of sex the cover of Riders either in the bathroom or on their mother’s bedside table. Jilly Cooper. What a legend

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 3d

Syed’s column today is also batshit. He badly needs to touch grass

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 3d

I know they think thus makes them look straight AF but this genuinely looks like a performance art piece from RVT that breaks into a Fosse routine

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 3d

There’s hundreds of thousands of us. We’re artists, writers, academics, chefs, business owners, producers, community leaders and family members. We’re at every walk of life in Britain

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 3d

If you're going to doggedly say you have to two side every argument can you at fucking least acknowledge there are British Palestinians. There are people of Palestinian heritage who are British. They have been almost entirely absent from any conversation and you do have to ask why

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

Now I’m going to watch a Tom Cruise film to calm down. Then I’m making ribs and probably daiquiris. The feckers

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

Spent 20 minutes on hold, had to do a survey about our water usage and be spoken to like a child. At no point was it possible they were wrong. I never write the c word on socials but believe me it is what I am saying out loud

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

The fuckers have switched two numbers in our meter reading. OH only spotted it because he checked the meter so we could test for leaks. The utter incompetent bastards. And it’s not like everyone knows where the meter is

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

United Utilities can absolutely do one btw. They think were using twice much water as last year to justify huge price increase. Utter cowboys

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

United Utilities can absolutely do one btw. They think were using twice much water as last year to justify huge price increase. Utter cowboys

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t want to alarm anyone but Sky Sports News is down

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

Must have been. Although you know my mates, far more likely to recognise Kitty than the speaker of the commons

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

A friend of mine saw her have a blazing row in a pub car park with her gf. A glorious grump

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

A legend

Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d

I say « thats the comprehensive system for you » on a weekly basis

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 6d

Using a terror attack to develop your own brand of hate is fairly reprehensible. No family should ever have to deal with the despair of knowing someone they love will never come home. It's dehumanising to see it any other way

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone enjoys reviewing theatre outside of London (or are from London but you like getting trains) do make yourself known as Im sending out review requests #journorequest

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 7d

Racism is not a legitimate alternative opinion. It isn’t censorship to challenge racist views, it isn't an attack to point out when someone says something racist, and the burden shouldn't be on black and brown people to face racists

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 7d

Listened to an hour of @mrjamesob.bsky.social today as black and brown people shared their radical different experience of modern Britain with racism on the march. Racism has always been here, the far right are emboldened and too many people (both on the left and white) don’t speak up on it

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 7d

You can’t do a Christmas ghost story after Christmas Eve. It’s like Santa, ceases to exist once Christmas Day dawns. I don’t make the rules, Paul

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 7d

I could watch Tobias Menzies read a phone book and be enthralled so all I need to do is stay awake for this

Paul Simpson (SFB) @scifibulletin.bsky.social · 7d

Casting for the next Ghost Story for Christmas revealed
scifibulletin.com/2025/10/01/l...

Lumley & Menzies for 2025 Christmas Ghost Story

Deadline has announced that Joanna Lumley and Tobias Menzies will headline the latest Christmas Ghost Story from Mark Gatiss for the BBC. A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower is set b…

scifibulletin.com

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