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VIRTUES, VICES AND WILD IDEAS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATYÁŠ CHOCHOLA Award-winning artist Matyáš Chochola talks inspiration and the ideas behind his striking sculptures MACE II, METEOR and BRUTALIST, currently on show at Regent's Park, part of @friezeofficial: bit.ly/MatyasChochola_RunRio…
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Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!
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On my way, Clacton.
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Hands down Birds Eye View film festival's greatest coup was premiering Persepolis in 2008. Incredible film, incredible artist. You let us in to the experience of women in Iran in the most beautiful, intimate way. Thank you for it all, Marjane. Yours in sorrow and inspiration. @Marji_Satrapi theguardian.com/books/2026/j…
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Run-Riot retweeted
Thanks so much @Run_Riot for this new interview ahead of a first ever sharing of my new work Conversations We Should’ve Had on Wednesday @OmnibusTheatre Read the full chat at run-riot.com/articles/blogs/… #writer #comedy #queer
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Some quotes from my interview with culture zine Run Riot, covering AI, grassroots venues, diversity and education. Read the full interview in the link in the thread. (1/2)
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“The Green Party has called on the government to rule out any future weakening of copyright law, and to urgently introduce transparency requirements on AI developers.” This, from the Deputy Leader of the Green Party, is what sensible, fair AI policy looks like.
Pleasure to write for Run Riot about AI and the Green vision for Arts & Culture. Read the full article with the link in the thread. 👇
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Pleasure to write for Run Riot about AI and the Green vision for Arts & Culture. Read the full article with the link in the thread. 👇
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I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes. The kind of private rooms and members clubs that most people in Britain will never see. I know how the rich speak about ordinary people. They laugh. They joke about how easy it is to wind you up. They know exactly which buttons to press. They know you are angry and tired and struggling and they know you want someone to blame. That is why they point at boats while they pick your pockets. I did not grow up rich. I did not grow up in privilege. I understand struggle and the real world. But my life changed and now I see both sides. I sit with billionaires and politicians and decision makers and I hear conversations you never will. I know the truth. They do not care about you. They do not care about your future. They care about profit and control. They see ordinary people as tools or distractions. I am telling you this because I am tired of watching good people being manipulated. Look at your life before Brexit and look at it now. Look at your shopping bills. Look at what food costs in Europe right now. Look at how much tax you pay on imports. Look at your wages and energy prices and mortgages. Look at the 10,000 NHS staff we lost when freedom of movement ended. Look at the ambulances that do not arrive. Look at nurses and teachers using food banks. Tell me honestly. Are you better off? Nigel helped build the crisis you are living in. Then he pointed at immigrants and told you to blame them. That is the con. He pulled the UK out of the Dublin III agreement which means we cannot return asylum seekers to Europe anymore. He created the boat chaos then told you to panic about it. Someone who worked in immigration for more than ten years told me they saw it coming. It was planned. It is a strategy. And you are falling for it. Now he wants austerity again. He wants to cut wages for young people. He wants to rip up workers rights. He wants private health insurance and a French style NHS where the rich get treated first and the poor get nothing. He wants you fighting each other so you never see who is robbing you. If you vote for him you are voting to destroy your own life. Not mine. Yours. None of this affects me personally. I drink champagne with the people who control the money. I will be fine no matter what. Reform will not hurt me. Reform will hurt you. It will hurt your children. Your parents. Your future. I am telling you because I care. If I did not care I would stay silent and watch you suffer. You think I am your enemy because I make you uncomfortable. I am not. Your enemy is the one who lies to you and blames the vulnerable while he empties your pockets. Reform will not save you. Reform will finish you. Think. Before they take everything. 💷🇬🇧☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫖
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Give a little glow this Christmas - gift an Illuminated River tour 🎁 illuminatedriver.london/what…
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£200,000 in 3 days!!! Thank you to all those who have donated. Let's keep going and smashing through our targets. 📈 Hope is here. It's all of us. 💚 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishe…
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Good grief. A politician with a brain and integrity and concern for what’s in the national interest. Starting to think I’d never see that again in my lifetime.
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What does freedom mean to you? @AnnaJochymek 's outdoor exhibition of photographic portraits @brentfordmarket is open this Friday 10am - 5pm with 20 large format photographs of Polish women in or connected to Hounslow and answering what freedom means to them. #Free
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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We elected our first Green MP in Sussex, we have Green leadership on councils across Sussex, and now we have an opportunity to elect a Green Mayor for Sussex. 💚 Let's do this. Sign up for the campaign with the link in my bio.
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Jeez… if we don’t wake up To this we deserve everything we get… when I say we….
The story the @nytimes is running but our dodgy UK press are avoiding
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Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐
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Note to British politicians. THIS. ALL OF THIS. #FarageDestroyed
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The Green Party and Plaid Cymru have 4 seats each, the same as Reform. Sinn Féin have 7 seats. SNP have 9 Independents have 21 LibDems have 72. Why is every media channel constantly blasting out Reform propaganda? @BBCNews? @SkyNews @ITVNewsPolitics @Channel4News ?
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