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Sep 15, 2022 15 tweets 8 min read Read on X
“Humans can’t", said T.S.E.,
“bear very much reality.”
At times like these, when all at sea,
We need a televisual cup of tea. Image
And so here’s #ACGAS; I forsee
delights autumnal and carefree
To add to Thursday night TV
As downward falls the mercury. Image
With thumping heart and knocking knee
James prayed that Helen would agree…
She did! But what to wear? Will she
Turn up in dress or dungaree?
So Mrs Hall, our own Queen Bee
Plans sausage rolls and kedgeree
(It’s not a fancy wedding, see?
More cake and beer than chilled Chablis)
Now thoughtful more, and less carefree,
(does that sound like hyperbole?),
But through all this, we guarantee
Nothing will dent Tristan’s esprit.
And what of Siegfried, yours truly,
The Terror of the Bourgeoisie?
He champions, single-handedly,
The vanishing art of chivalry Image
With love and idiosyncracy
We present our new #AllCreatures spree
On Channel Five, predictably -
Tonight at nine: it’s Series Three. Image
(and lest you should think “How lovely”:)
Ep 2 of #AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall is tonight at 9pm on @channel5_tv.

We have some new cast members. They’re great. And small #ACGAS Image
I thought you might like this picture I took of @RachelShenton on set.

Straight out of early 40s Hollywood Image
Animal handler Dean Clark showed our children around the #ACGAS holding farm in April. COVID and Foot and Mouth rules make the logistics of moving and training animals for a series like this complex.

The calves are so small they still need coats for spring filming in the Dales ImageImage
Tonight’s #AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall goes to some dark places. But everything gets lighter in the end.

Episode 3 stars @michaelmaloney and @StevenPHartley and some very beautiful horses. 9pm, @channel5_tv Image
Siegfried returned from the Great War preferring most horses to most people.

Tonight’s episode is the one where that stopped feeling eccentric and started to make perfect sense #ACGAS Image
Shoutout to our brilliant #ACGAS horse master Mark Atkinson and his son Ben.

They have a connection to their animals which is nothing short of astonishing, and they couldn’t have been kinder or more helpful to an improving rider actionhorses.co.uk Image
Thank you so much for your kind words about #AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall tonight. A labour of love, as I’m sure you could tell.

If you missed it, it’s available here channel5.com/all-creatures-…, so you can miss it again.

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Jul 3
One day to go.

This thread on the @Conservatives’ record in government got nearly a million views in 72 hours. It obviously touched a nerve.

You also sent many suggestions of what I’d left out.
So here’s an update, with an important correction at the end. Here we go:
Water companies paying record dividends despite record fines. Between them, eight English water companies paid out more than £1.35bn to shareholders last year. They discharged sewage for a total of 3.6m hours: that's £377 dividend for every hour of polluting rivers and seas
10 000 people hospitalised for waterborne diseases. Despite the disaster of water, energy and the railways, a mad rush for more privatisation. The collapse of 28 energy providers. British Gas profits up from £72m to £751m in one year (2023). Royal Mail sold to a Czech billionaire
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Fifteen years. Five prime ministers, seven chancellors, eight foreign secretaries, twelve culture secretaries and sixteen housing ministers.

A thread, for #RantyTuesday.
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Mar 27, 2023
I'd take Sunak's crusade against teenage 'loitering' more seriously if his party since 2010 hadn't closed more than 800 libraries, sold off hundreds of playing fields, cut arts funding by a third and local authority grants by 40%.
Young people need cheap, interesting things to do
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Apr 27, 2022
Katharine Birbalsingh says that fewer girls chose physics because “physics isn’t something that girls tend to fancy… There’s a lot of hard maths in there that I think they would rather not do… The research generally … just says that’s a natural thing."
Katharine Birbalsingh is the government’s social mobility commissioner.

So that's you told, girls. Get back in the kitchen and don't bother your head with hard sums. It's not natural.
theguardian.com/education/2022…
The Institute of Physics @PhysicsNews is clear where the problem lies:

“It would appear that, in many schools, expectations of students are often gender stereotyped. This must be challenged by a school-wide approach to gender equity, with support from government…”
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Apr 23, 2022
Oh Oliver. Know your #Shakespeare, especially on his birthday.

The speech continues: “this England… is now leased out …bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:

That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”
This from a former Culture Secretary. Honestly. It’s government by fridge magnet
The full text of John of Gaunt’s great ‘scandal’ speech, from Richard II Act 2 scene 1:
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The way much of the world has handled COVID is pretty depressing.

In large so-called democracies like the US and UK, short-termism and the patchy adoption and early abandonment of easy stuff like masks proved we were governed by clowns who would rather be popular than right
Meanwhile we hoarded vaccines and their patents, ignoring the fact that no-one is safe till all are safe and leaving us open to long COVID and more dangerous variants.

Even now only 15.2% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose (ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinat…)
Care and consideration for our fellow humans were derided as an unacceptable yoke on individual freedom, and governments who should have known better pandered to misinformation and self-interest.

Capitalism saw the disaster as a way to profit, not help
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