playwright, producer, assessor | semiorph, green savant, still ruining shoes | excessive, transgressive & implicitly dangerous | adherent to the rule of three
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Feb 26
Am I tweeting again? I think I'm tweeting again. Why am I tweeting again? Right, because NEW PLAY IS HAPPENING and I'm obliged to promote it as much as I can
Buy tickets! Spread word! Come see! It'll be really good!
The sky's on fire and everything's falling apart. As catastrophe rages outside, one night is all they have...
Our new play ONE BREATH BEFORE THE END comes this May to Bristol, Manchester, and London. Find out more and get your tickets here: linktr.ee/1912productions
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Jun 8
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…
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May 8
Rip-roaring success. On to phase three
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1912 Productions announces second play “One Breath Before The End” to tour in May - #1912Productions #OneBreathBeforeTheEnd
Read the full article here: ift.tt/OkK6eXt
More on Theatre-News.com
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"𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥."
If all you had was a single night, could you make everything right again?
Our new play ONE BREATH BEFORE THE END will be touring UK theatres this May.
@AlmaBristol: May 13-16
@53two: May 20-22
@theglitch_se1: May 27-29
🎟️ in bio!
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If there was anything to sum up the failure of the uniparty over the past ~20 years it is this. Rationing water on an Island where it rains 60% of the year.
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🎉OffWestEnd is turning 20 tomorrow! Tune in to YouTube at 7:30 pm Jan 20 and watch with us live as we walk through the history of the evolution of Off-West End over the last 20 years. Remember to have your glasses of… #offwestend #londontheatre #fringetheatre #fringe #london
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28 Sep 2025
He really is an incredibly stupid man. These people can't even argue for what they want to happen when given every opportunity in the world.
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25 Sep 2025
"ok Keir, right wingers think you're a New World Order elite plant who wants to bring in global 5G brain hacking, and left wingers think you're an authoritarian stooge with nothing to offer but a tired Blairite tribute act. What's the plan?"
'Hear me out... ID Cards!'
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Govt will announce digital ID cards for all within days
It's seen as a key way to control illegal immigration
Ministers have been working up to this for some months
Exc @theipaper by top colleague @ChaplainChloe: inews.co.uk/news/politics/br…
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25 Sep 2025
Not one political party had compulsory digital ID in its manifesto at last year's general election.
Not one person voted for it.
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25 Sep 2025
The digital ID cards contract will go to Palantir, won’t it? An authoritarian policy dressed up in anti-migrant rhetoric, funnelling public money to a shady American tech firm. You couldn’t invent a more Starmerite scheme.
25 Sep 2025
BREAKING: I have just submitted an FOI to the Home Office demanding FULL TRANSPARENCY on Palantir’s role in tomorrow’s “Brit Card” mandatory digital ID scheme 🚨
WHY THIS MATTERS: Palantir already has its surveillance tentacles deep in UK infrastructure with 24 government contracts including:
🏥 NHS - patient data analytics
🛡️ Ministry of Defence - military intelligence
👮 Police Forces - “predictive policing” systems
🏛️ Cabinet Office - cross-govt data platform
🏘️ DLUHC - local authority surveillance
🏛️ Coventry City Council - citizen monitoring
PALANTIR’S TRACK RECORD:
•Built CIA’s tracking systems
•Created NSA mass surveillance tools
•“Predictive policing” = racial profiling algorithms
•Founded by Peter Thiel (Trump mega-donor)
•Profits from border surveillance & deportations
•Turns citizen data into surveillance gold
Given this EXTENSIVE presence across UK institutions, Palantir involvement in Brit Card is not just possible - it’s PROBABLE.
MY FOI DEMANDS ANSWERS ON:
✅ Is Palantir contracted for Brit Card technology?
✅ What’s the contract value & scope?
✅ How will our biometric/personal data be used?
✅ What surveillance capabilities are being built?
✅ Where are the privacy safeguards?
✅ Who else is profiting from this scheme?
⏰ URGENT: Starmer announces this TOMORROW
⏰ Government has 20 days to respond under FOI law
⏰ Every UK adult will be forced onto this database
This isn’t immigration control - it’s INFRASTRUCTURE for a surveillance state.
When the same company tracking CIA targets builds your “ID card” system, you’re not getting documentation - you’re getting MONITORED.
#BritCard #Palantir #DigitalSurveillance #FOI #Privacy #MassSurveillance #DigitalRights
RETWEET TO SOUND THE ALARM
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20 Aug 2025
Britain is the first Deëmerging Economy in the world. A clever investment bank macro analyst like Jim O'Neill should lean into this. Counties like India and Vietnam and China are rapidly emerging, Britain is demerging: becoming a low trust, low wage, low productivity, low tech economy, with middling living standards, higher levels of political instability and social unrest, poor and patchy public services and infrastructure, regular fiscal crises, and institutions that increasingly look unfit for 21st Century governance. There's bound to be loads of data on this. Investors would no doubt lap up a research note that looked at the investment connotations of this switch. Where can money be made in a Deëmerging Economy? Low value-add manufacturing? Resource extraction? Foreign companies willing to offer technology transfer? Startups that might be bought by foreign companies that can provide them with capital? The one or two world class industries left, they will undoubtedly gain outsized prestige and influence? Private services that allow the dwindling numbers of middle class to escape the horrors of public healthcare and education?
@philippilk @John_Mills_JML
20 Aug 2025
UK independent space agency scrapped to cut costs bbc.in/45IbDT0
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18 Aug 2025
They could, instead, pass a single policy that makes peoples’ lives better
16 Aug 2025
🚨 NEW: An "attack team" has been created inside No 10, led by Morgan McSweeney, with the sole purpose of targeting Reform UK
[@spectator]
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31 Jul 2025
Should start actually listing shows I've seen because
a.) I'll forget
b.) Always nice to give artists the ego boost innit
c.) Twitter is so dead rn but maybe the 8 or 9 people still aboard this sinking ship will see this thread & buy tickets (gambling w/ long odds on this one)
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16 Aug 2025
48. WD40 (Mark Thomas). Tickets to see his shows are like gold dust & it's not hard to see why. He's inimitable (as more energy in his little finger than most do in their whole bodies)& delightfully savage about a whole range of topics. Would pay through the nose for more of this
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49. And my final show of the Fringe is AWKWARD PRODS GET MARRIED (@AwkwardProds). As silly delightful an event as I expected. Full of giggles, guest appearances, & a magical musical number from the divine @SoozUK.
My god, aren't they such a gorgeous pair. Mazel tov, lovelies 💖
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14 Aug 2025
You can do a masters and abuse substances at the same time. Ask me how I know
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14 Aug 2025
This is why UK productivity is so low. Absolutely pathetic outcome.
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15 Aug 2025
The bad news: we’ve shuttered the history, literature, music, and philosophy departments.
The good news: we now have extra budget for our AI Prompts degree
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