I can speak out because I am privileged, retired & have nothing to lose - bold but not brave.
Joined November 2011
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Simon Albury retweeted
31 Aug 2024
Today (31st August) is National Cinema Day. All tickets are only £4!
Support your local cinema, they are essential to the eco-system of the film and TV industry, and make watching a film into a special event 🍿🥤🍿🥤🎞️🎞️
@FilmTVCharity
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Simon Albury retweeted
31 Aug 2024
Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen boasts that the airport he’s put huge amounts of public money into is back in profit. It isn’t. Latest @PrivateEyeNews has details of the fiddling that would make Enron’s accountants blush.
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30 Aug 2024
Labour Party Urged To Add Age To Diversity Monitoring Law deadline.com/2024/08/campaig…
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Simon Albury retweeted
30 Aug 2024
The influence of the Daily Mail on the BBC remains huge..even though the party it supports was slaughtered at the general election. The banal assertions of ‘impartiality’ are not valid while it tamely and fearfully follows up overblown Mail stories:
30 Aug 2024
The Daily Mail is foaming at the mouth about Starmer moving a portrait - so the Today Programme just read out the headline & ran a whole feature on it.
Can we please stop letting these papers set the news agenda? Let them howl into the void if they must, but don't run after them
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Simon Albury retweeted
30 Aug 2024
Join us, @equity & @AnthonyHopkins in challenging @7DialsPlayhouse selling 1a Tower St lease - formerly #TheActorsCentre. It erased all training & now has put the building at risk. This impacts your grads who’ve lost vital ongoing affordable accessible training. @LAMDAdrama
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27 Aug 2024
What's the real reason Starmer axed his national security adviser? | The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/what…
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26 Aug 2024
How serious is the Starmer sleaze row? | The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/how-…
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25 Aug 2024
Meet the new Master of the King’s Music: ‘I didn’t fit the image of a composer’. thetimes.com/article/cda45aa…
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Simon Albury retweeted
23 Aug 2024
There is not a single Black police officer serving in 2 of the UK’s police forces despite diversity pledges. Former Met superintendent says racism in policing has returned to a pre-Stephen Lawrence inquiry era & that Black people won’t join ‘toxic culture’ mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sh…
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Simon Albury retweeted
23 Aug 2024
If you’re struggling do reach out to the @FilmTVCharity.
23 Aug 2024
With news that electricity prices are expected to increase by £149 a year from October, a reminder that if you are struggling and work in film, TV or cinema the @FilmTVCharity is here for you.
Please apply for a hardship grant if you're in need.
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Simon Albury retweeted
23 Aug 2024
James Graham makes a very valid point. A lot more should be done to help working class and poor kids into drama, film and TV.
I note that "late passes" for the Edinburgh TV Festival cost £1,349, plus 4% booking fee, plus 20% VAT. £1,683: thetvfestival.com/passes/
21 Aug 2024
#Sherwood writer @mrJamesGraham calls for better working class representation on TV in powerful speech
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ALT James Graham in a light blue shirt looking into camera
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Simon Albury retweeted
23 Aug 2024
"People did not know that Kamala Harris had it in her. To paraphrase the adage, “cometh the hour, cometh the woman”. It turns out that she is a once-in-a-generation natural." My Weekend FT column on a dramatic week. ft.com/content/a5438880-1ff0…
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Simon Albury retweeted
23 Aug 2024
It’s crucial that Action for Freelancers is not just warm words, it has to mean real structural change to improve freelancers lives. As others have said if this crisis were happening in other industries there would be urgent action @bectu we are determined to make change happen
22 Aug 2024
Optimism expressed over revamped Freelance Charter broadcastnow.co.uk/freelance… #EdTVFest
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23 Aug 2024
Martin Lewis has talked the BBC, Watchdog and working conditions in TV as he picks up the outstanding achievement award at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Source: Deadline search.app/nEdQzFiSFoVDz6AV7
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Simon Albury retweeted
23 Aug 2024
Actors coming together to learn, develop, collaborate, connect was at the heart of #TheActorsCentre. @7DialsPlayhouse erased it & denied Actors affordable/accessible training in the building bought for them & is now selling the lease. We deserve better - chng.it/X6r6DSZWVj
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23 Aug 2024
Speak-easy: on representation and equity in the UK TV and film industry since 2020 | Sight and Sound bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/f…
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Simon Albury retweeted
21 Aug 2024
Since 2022 @7DialsPlayhouse have not listened to over 5000 petition signers, @AnthonyHopkins, @SimonCallow, Judi Dench, @GilesTerera, Mark Rylance, @EquityUK and Sheila Hancock.
Keep shouting until they listen.
Sign the petition.
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Simon Albury retweeted
22 Aug 2024
The removal of affordable accessible actor training from 1aTower St by @7DialsPlayhouse has been a wholly unnecessary & damaging decision. We must all stand together & fight to save the building & 40 yr legacy. Actors need our training & home returned. chng.it/X6r6DSZWVj
The Actors Centre’s spirit is what must live on – this week in Your Views 👇 thestage.co.uk/your-views/yo…
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22 Aug 2024
The corporation knew in November, before the former broadcaster resigned in April, that he had been arrested for serious offences.
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