Jesus, don’t wear a mask down Sainsbos after the 19th if it’s such a big deal to you weirdos, just stop going on about it like you’re William fucking Wallace when you’re basically a toddler who won’t keep his nappy on.
@bencsmoke
@TyroneHuntley
Who decides when it's OK to stop? There must be people with one eye on previous records and the other eye on their watch keeping it going or you'd be clapping for what felt like 17 minutes only to realise it was about 3
Is it morally right for religious extremists to impose their homophobia on their own children and other people’s?
AND
Is it right for our national broadcaster to entertain the notion that lgbt people are a moral problem at least three times in the last week?
FIXED IT FOR YOU
I too will die on this hill. The idea that a family travelling 5 hours to Cornwall in a car groaning under its roof rack for a week in scenery very different to where they live is having a "staycation" is ludicrous and very Guardian (the latest source of this bell-endery)
@simonjedge
@PhilipPullman
There are and have been trans people far longer than there have been any kind of affirmative structures. Section 28 harmed me, but it didn’t stop me being gay.
Also I don't fucking know what support is appropriate for a trans kid because I'm neither trans nor a medic who has spent years studying this and nor do most of these survey respondents so it's really just a poll about media narratives
@CasparSalmon
Growing up in Wolverhampton we called them stab-slabs, I had no idea they were called chopping boards until I went to university. I was so confused! Because to us “chopping” had always meant roller skating.
Now that audiences are returning to theatres, *please* remember good THEATRE ETIQUETTE. Not everyone was taken to the theatre as a child, as I was, so here are some golden rules:
Chris Whitty tells
@BethRigby
that people are mistaken to conflate the COVID alert levels and lockdown measures. This is the No10 slide from the week the alert levels were announced.
@QuestionLGBTedu
But the bottom two pictures aren’t taken in a school so why have you included them? Why make an argument you can’t back up without irrelevant information?
@rlxuis
Yes. Going for a run and people staring at you like you’re coming directly for them with an explosive suicide vest on if you didn’t give them 4 metres distance. Had a proper shouty argument with a woman in the woods back in April. You wouldn’t get that now.
I’m doing research into WW2 spies. In one book I’ve stumbled on a mention of Brian Stonehouse, a secret agent who was put into brutal jails and concentration camps. He went on to be a leading illustrator for American Vogue & Harper’s. I have a picture by him.
But sneering at people who choose differently makes you look very much like the meateater trying to “catch out” the vegetarian at the BBQ, or demanding to know why someone doesn’t drink. Petty insecurity masquerading as bullying.
@jfwduffield
@lewis_goodall
I’m sure he is aware but saying that sort of thing is little different to shouting at a nurse “I pay your wages!” People aren’t our servants just because their wages come from taxation.
She wasn’t sacked for a five year old homophobic post she was sacked because she still stood by it even while taking on a queer role in a major production. This is NOT A CHRISTIAN ISSUE. My aunt is a Christian. She doesn’t go around posting anti LGBT+ stuff.
BREAKING: the Christian Legal Centre is supporting a talented Christian actress who has been hounded out of her promising career for a post she made on Facebook in 2014 where she cited the Bible.
#SeyiOmooba
#TheColorPurple
#AntiChristian
#Justice
So many people replying “you forgot he can’t sweat huh huh ha ha ha” as if that wasn’t why sweating was mentioned, fuck me but people are fucking thick. Morning.
Prince Andrew will be sweating today after legal action was started in the US by a woman claiming she was trafficked and sexually abused.
Forget Harry and Meghan. Discussing what is the huge royal scandal on
@GMB
in a mo.
@IoWBobSeely
@SamCoatesSky
It is your job. And it’s journalists’ jobs to show us when the distribution of public funds appears to be connected to personal loyalty and support in a way that would not be available to constituency MPs of other parties.
@guardian
“of the 1.5 million people who declared themselves non-heterosexual [in the census] only 15,000 referred to themselves as “queer”
Yes - we ticked gay or bi or whatever as the one that described us specifically. That cannot be read as only 15k accepting the umbrella term queer.
@kittyscottclaus
Without commenting on or condoning either, one was being paid by the state to promote the state and the other wasn’t so I think there’s a material difference.
@Glinner
My point is that (a small part of) a global survey on attitudes to gender & sexuality can be framed to serve different narratives. To some it shows less than 50% in the UK support whatever they think affirmative care means. To others it shows more are in favour than against.
@SarahSurviving
When people talk about trans women just wanting to pee it’s a response to people claiming not to want them to access womens loos, not about the availability of loos. You’re highlighting a genuine problem with provision of women’s loos. Get onto the council about it, not trans ppl
@scusemelaydeh
@thervt
Exactly, but then he’s not a “long time supporter”, he’s a follower of public opinion (and indeed a former enemy of gay rights) and shouldn’t claim otherwise just as a rhetorical trick to make his current pronouncements sound reasonable.
@GrezzMono
@benhewis
What has Ben got to do with the failings around the awful attack on your son? Complain to the police or your MP. I too have been violently mugged at knife point, but I’m glad Ben’s very real nightmare has been resolved.
I’ve written a 90 min TV romcom which I pitched a brief idea for in February and today I found out it will shoot in October. Amazingly quick. It’ll be mainly a daytime thing on various channels globally so not very prestigious but it’s still v exciting to get something made!
Cocaine is not a consequence-free drug (under current laws) so it’s right that a lawmaker like Gove is expected to answer questions.
But Johnson wasted £43 MILLION public funds on the Garden Bridge. It’s scandalous. It should disqualify him from ever holding office again.
@TimBurnsUK
I think maybe it's because in large part it's about rights that have already been won, and processes that already exist. So it's people who want to reverse those rights/processes that are leading the conversation. But I agree.
@CarolePaley
@ScotCuthbertson
@trumpy675
I’m torn on the pardon thing. If it’s “forgiveness for doing something wrong” then a pardon is nonsensical. If it’s for breaking the law (which he did - but the law was wrong) then maybe it makes sense. But really it should have been a Royal Really Fucking Sorry, not a pardon.
You’ll be free not to wear a mask. You’ll also be free to not stop and help someone who’s fallen over in the street if you’re too busy but you presumably wouldn’t sneer at someone who did take the time to do so.
@jamesdgreig
I’ve kinda come to view that the performative “I hate this this shit island get me off it” thing is almost as blasé, smug and unhelpful as British jingoistic exceptionalism, and not unrelated to it.
@AlbiEternus
@MarinaPurkiss
To be clear, you think it's right that parents should dishonestly register their children for state school places even if they have no intention of sending them there, in order to artificially inflate numbers to affect policy?
1) If you don’t understand something about the play you’re watching, quietly put your hand up until an actor notices and invites you to ask a question.
#TheatreEtiquette
It's been a 9-show week and then we get people barging into the dressing room... A total privilege to welcome panto (and other stuff!) legend
@IanMcKellen
to
#sleepingbeautytakesaprick
this evening ❤️🎭
Not that it matters much but in 12 years of doing these crazy fairytales this is our first EVER review from a national paper.
“The gags come thick & fast. Thrives on the pleasurable clash between smart and stupid. There isn’t a weak link in the cast”💐💥
The British Traitors is the original
@NationalTheatre
production and
#TheTraitorsUS
is the touring one five years later which is technically the same production with the same set but the cast is beefed up with reality tv slebs “because we need a name”
@Jamesontweets
@chrisdclegg
@ladygaga
I was thinking this earlier, she reminds me of folk musicians where there’s often a strong sense of being part of a lineage, legacy, collaboration.
@NationalTheatre
“I was adored once too”.
I played Andrew Aguecheek in a school production of Twelfth Night and I love that the line raises all sorts of questions that are never explored further. It’s not his story; and you sort of suspect that life itself isn’t really his story.
@DrFrancesRyan
Why are journalists asking a grieving mother whether she has sympathy for the parents? It's an unfair and pointless question to ask her. (I don't disagree with you at all, but this instance sounds like it's been prompted by Ferrari's question)
Nigel Evans voted for legal aid cuts in 2012 (under Cameron’s public schoolboy hobbyist government, what a shock). Now he’s lost his own life savings defending himself against criminal accusations and calls it his Damascene moment. Self-pity as empathy.
When the Welsh people voted by a small margin to create the welsh assembly, Theresa May, John Redwood and Liam Fox then voted in parliament to ignore that referendum. But hey, will of the people...
It's fascinating because it's a lie: the Conservatives went into the 2005 election pledging a referendum on whether or not to scrap the Welsh Assembly.
Allowed myself a birthday lie in. My bf had an early start today but I woke to this so I’m going to start my - holy fuck - 43rd year, drinking alone before 10am. Anyway he is ace.
@PoliticoTeacher
Where did this grotesque idea that actors are employed by writers come from, let alone the idea that this would somehow indenture them to that writer forever after?
Like, whatever, we’re all going to pick and choose a bit. I doubt many will bother putting it for the short walk from pub table to pub toilet. But it’s hardly an inconvenience on the tube is it, a few more months. It’s like the slogan says, every little helps.
@ocallumjxx
If you have a clear upper age limit in your profile then fair enough but otherwise yes I agree it is quite insane to respond like that and post it online instead of just blocking and moving on.
Yesterday in Lambeth I passed this fantastically tiled building. The windows were bordered by delightful glazed sheaves-of-wheat. Google tells me it was part of Doulton pottery and so intended to show off their work.
My and my bf did go to a club in Amsterdam called Church last year and I even spent some time on my knees but it didn’t feel all that self-righteous because [redacted]
@KateCameron_NZ
Explain how I'm wrong if you're going to correct me in such an unnecessarily sneering manner. You can see that the blue bar is longer than the red bar, right?
4) Actors like to be recognised, so a popular theatre game is to call out the name of TV programmes you remember seeing them in. This works particularly well for Shakespeare productions, which often feature large casts of actors who are good enough for TV.
#TheatreEtiquette
@deerhive
@WHO
@DrTedros
Because men who sleep with men are the people among whom monkeypox is predominantly spreading, regardless of how it “can” be caught. If the best way to slow it is focusing efforts on us, it makes sense to do so.
@AyoCaesar
They've lost my vote, less for the outcomes but for the cruel and dishonest way its been handled up to and including today. I've voted Labour in general elections for 25 years.
Didn't get the Emergency Alert 😥 Did get this 🥰 "What a joy to discover a play so bold, so outspoken & so thoroughly unpredictable. Angry & mischievous, droll & unforgettably poignant. Deserves to be seen on a bigger stage as soon as possible"
When we made our gay pantomimes at Above The Stag Theatre in Vauxhall we had a total capacity of ≈5000. When Sleeping Beauty (by my new company
@HBYPantos
) closes on Saturday we'll have played to 14k! A huge chunk of the audience will have seen our stuff for the first time.
With 14,000 seats sold, West End adult panto ‘Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick’ smashes box office records!
The company behind it
@hbypantos
announces a return to
@CharingCrossThr
with 'Jack and the Beanstalk: Looking for the Top', 23 November 2024 – 11 January 2025
“People who haven’t cared one bit about my well-being as a female athlete, about unequal pay or misogyny in sport, are suddenly concerned about my competitive opportunities because of transgender women.”
We would have been two weeks into our run. But tonight is our very first performance of Dick Whittington: A New Dick in Town. An amazing team have pulled out all the stops to make this show. Break a dick, all of ‘em.
#panto
#pantomime
@simonjedge
@PhilipPullman
It’s worth saying, too, that there are more *openly* gay people now than there were when it was less socially acceptable. Doesn’t mean that people have been pressured into being gay just because it’s now thankfully normalised, legitimised and accepted.
💐🎉 Last night I was beyond thrilled to win the inaugural
#ThroughTheMill
playwriting prize for Animal, a play about a young man who can’t wank, which I developed with
@JoshuaHepple
. The play will be produced next year at Manchester’s brilliant
@hopemilltheatr1
! 🍾🥂
What an incredible evening we had last night at the Through The Mill Finalist Evening!
We saw extracts from the 12 finalist scripts, and announced Jon Bradfield and his play 'Animal' as our worthy winner!
Here's writer Jon, collaborator Josh with TTM mentor Jonathan Harvey