Trigger warning *not everyone will want to look at this ahead of the Budget.
But a list of things taxpayers have been charged on - which you can refer to when Rachel Reeves/ Labour/ whoever says there was "austerity" or they had to make tough economic choices.
The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
28) £720,390
Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality Before Liberation
Global Leadership of Women in Web 3 (GLoW3) (2020-2024)
"GLoW3 seeks to interrogate, understand and foreground women, non-binary and trans (W, NB and T) contributions to the conceptualisation, commercialisation..." gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
32) £2,947,162
Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage
Tender is a healthy relationships charity that informed the Netflix documentary Adolescence.
It has received £4 MILLION in taxpayer funding (2021-25).
Olivia Colman and her husband Ed Sinclair have been patrons since 2013.
I had a good nose on its Instagram. Some findings🧵
David Tennant, who once said Kemi Badenoch should "shut up" and he would like to live in a world where she "doesn’t exist any more", has recorded poetry for the charity - including one about social distancing (2020). instagram.com/p/CANbRcInSNf/
The line up for Wednesday's "Stop Trump" protest 🧵
NB. Stop Trump has blocked me on X
1) Zoe Gardner, an open-border activist who was trained at Soros- and Quaker-funded @NEON_UK (an activist academy that provides scripts on asylum, why we need a wealth tax and how to back Gary Lineker, among other topics). She's also blocked me on X.
2) Faiza Shaheen, another alumni of Soros- and Quaker-funded NEON academy. She now works for Tax Justice UK, which lobbies for a wealth tax. Soros funds Tax Justice internationally. opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?fi…