Screenwriter; Event & PR Person; BBC Drama Room 2021/22; BBC Scottish Voices 2018/19; Repped by @ITG_Ltd; Chair @VPointTheatreCo; Board @TronTheatre
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Gillian McCormack retweeted
Reminder: Before the latest arts funding cuts were imposed, the Scottish Government’s spending on culture had slumped to just 0.5 per cent of its overall budget, one of the lowest in Europe.
Paulo Nutini, The Proclaimers, Biffy Clyro and Mogwai demand arts funding cut rethink scotsman.com/arts-and-cultur…
Gillian McCormack retweeted
Still can’t get over the Scottish Government inviting festivals to Bute House, then putting this video message out, while more than £10m worth of culture cuts were being quietly imposed.
Watch and listen to every word from John Swinney here.
First Minister @JohnSwinney hosted the Edinburgh Festivals reception at Bute House to celebrate Scottish festivals.
He outlined how the Scottish Government can work with the sector to shape its future and uphold its vital role.
An important thread. Please read and @Scotgov please rethink! "It is all connected, vital, essential. There really is #NoArtWithoutArtists"👇
HOW THIS WORKS @ScotGovFM @culturescotgov @AngusRobertson Both #LoveBeyond by @rameshmeyyappan and #LoveTheSinner by @imogen_stirling started from the OPEN FUND FOR INDIVIDUALS. Both then had full scale productions @traversetheatre and @TronTheatre ... 1/6
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🚨🏴 Scotland’s cultural landscape is at risk of collapse, due to continued inaction and backtracking from the Scottish Government. Please join me in signing the @_CFTA petition to urge ministers to deliver on their arts funding pledges now. campaignforthearts.org/petit…
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Massive power cut in Mo Flo just when I’m in the middle of rewatching Succession. Not quite 1977 New York City Blackout but still… get my telly back on!!!!!
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Gillian McCormack retweeted
Statue outside @BBCNews Broadcasting House …
‘The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.’
George Orwell
On a day @Shell announce record profits, @BritishGas are breaking into people's homes to cut off their energy supplies...
Read this account by Paul Morgan-Bentley. Debt collectors on behalf of British Gas breaking into someone’s home while they’re out to fix a pay-as-you-go meter
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Gillian McCormack retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: GOVT LAUNCHES ATTACK ON RIGHT TO STRIKE
• New law will force workers to work against their will
• Nurses, teachers, firefighters & more targeted
• Workers to be sacked if they refuse to cross pickets
Join the campaign to fight back: wesayenough.co.uk/petition/
And @ClaudiaWinkle is THE best…
#TheTraitors Best telly in donkeys.
Takeaways:
1) Linear TV isn’t dead.
2) Aaron.
3) Aaron’s trousers.
4) AMANDA.
5) Aaron again.
6) John was evil incarnate.
7) Aaron’s sublime innocence. Also his trousers.
8) Claudia’s jumpers.
9) Meryl still doesn’t know what’s going on.
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Jeezo. They do know that they are not actually getting murdered on #TheTraitors, don’t they?😂😂
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100% with nurses on strike today. The Tories are doing their best to vilify these real life heroes when the only villains are this corrupt Govt. If there’s enough money to pay Michelle Mone millions for a dodgy ppe contract there’s enough to pay nurses the wages they deserve.
Today, 100,000 nurses take part in the largest strike in NHS history.
💵 Real pay down £5,000 since 2010
🧣 1 in 3 struggling to afford food and heating
🥫 1 in 8 forced to use foodbanks
🤕 3 in 4 Trusts report mental health crisis
RT if you stand with our pandemic heroes 👊
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Another successful @ScotRail journey… been stuck on a train just outside Gleneagles for 2.5hrs with no updates, no water, no flushing toilet and no sign of an engineer!
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Gillian McCormack retweeted
Painful to witness Starmer in tortuous arguments about “making Brexit work” when it clearly can’t and won’t. Pretending we can prosper just as well outside the EU as inside is intellectually dishonest, as mounting evidence shows #r4today
