We have some new cast members. They’re great. And small #ACGAS
I thought you might like this picture I took of @RachelShenton on set.
Straight out of early 40s Hollywood
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
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
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
Thank you so much for your kind words about #AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall tonight. A labour of love, as I’m sure you could tell.
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
(Mind you, the sale of playing fields has slowed down. Between 1979 and 1997 the @Conservatives approved the sale of around 10 000 of them)
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…”
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.
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
Horrific news. Our orchestras, theatre and dance companies are some of the finest in the world. Now the Government tells us “music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design ... are not among our strategic priorities.”
Presumably the government feel that arts cuts will play well to their base before the elections. A new front opens in the culture war.
But we don’t train artists or musicians based on where they live or how much their parents earn. Because talent is no respecter of postcodes.
The talent pipeline works. These cuts will narrow and eventually choke it.
At the moment we train rich talented students and poor talented students. If this cut isn’t reversed, we’ll soon be training rich talented students and rich untalented students.