Thank you so much to @ohrhealy for taking on this sensitive and complex issue with great insight, and sharing the real impact on performers of #EdinburghFringe It was eye opening to research the @CostEdinburgh and I'm glad it's being raised, but now we need to see progress!

Our head of education policy @kate_cpag speaking to BBC News about what free school meals expansion means.

‘A game-changer for children and families. We hope this is a sign of what's to come in the autumn's child poverty strategy, with government taking more action to meet its manifesto commitment to reduce child poverty in the UK.’ - @kate_cpag

Brilliant audience questions too on how to balance the practical with ideal; "sensible" vs necessary; and resist factionalism in a world where scarcity is coming. @Rships_Project I mentioned your talk to @NaomiAKlein on the power of community & connection to withstand crises 🫂

Fantastic talk tonight by @NaomiAKlein discussing #Doppelganger hosted by @mlothianmclean @howtoacademy - refreshing and stark to hear so much truth shared about the state of politics, society and the climate, and how interrelated all our problems are. Brave and clear-sighted.

I call on advertising & PR companies to stop acting as enablers to planetary destruction by working for the fossil fuel industry. Stop taking on new fossil fuel clients & set out plans to drop your existing ones. They are poisoning our planet & they are toxic for your brand.

‘I’m going to stop you now. This is ridiculous’ Tory chair Richard Holden repeatedly refuses to deny his candidate selection was a stitch-up The senior Conservative was very keen to talk about comments made on schools by Labour's Emily Thornberry

We are witnessing a lost generation of working class talent because of the crisis in arts education and years of underfunding of the arts. We must not allow the arts to be dominated by the privileged and wealthy. Join the fight back @equity_class

Can I be honest with you? I didn’t want to start the programme talking about the Conservative claim that a Labour Government would cost you £2,000 in extra taxes. It’s obviously been disputed. Not just because it’s cumulative rather than annual – but because it’s based on an

How dare Sunak blame industrial action when it's his party which has chronically underpaid NHS workers and brought every single one of our public services to a state of crisis. #ITVDebate

Sunak "For the first time in UK history pensioners will pay tax". Is very inaccurate phrasing. Pensioners do pay tax just like everyone else. What he's talking about is paying tax if you get the full State Pension and have no other income. #ITVdebate

How much has tax gone up under the Conservatives over the last parliamentary term, per household? "It's difficult to calculate..." - @BimAfolami 'I can tell you... taxes have gone up £13,000 per household since 2019', says @SophyRidgeSky. #PoliticsHub https://t.co/GlTNastFii

Nurses have declared a national emergency in the NHS, warning that patients are dying in hospital corridors This is yet more evidence of the devastation the Conservatives have done to our health service The 4th of July can’t come quickly enough https://t.co/uLjd1uU2CN

Election Special: 1. The Economy

“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” (The Great Gatsby)

Ah. All those children who don’t go to private school is because their parents didn’t work hard enough or aspire to that education for their kids. Of course. Clearly, aspiring to a good state education is not worth bothering with.

The Big Short: Rishi Sunak 🛁

What a shameful thing for a UK PM at a time of global climate crisis to shrug his shoulders and say it's not for us to try to solve the problem. We have a responsibility. We made legal & global commitments. And the future is at stake #ITVDebate

We are officially in #recession This Tory govt is an amoral clique of charlatans which has 🔹siphoned off billions to Tory associates 🔹ridden roughshod over our freedoms and 🔹STOLEN THE HOPE of millions of children. #Rishession https://t.co/Z1yRQacByh

Lovely Community Notes taking down @RishiSunak for his untruths ⏬️ This message below is jaw dropping in its level of arrogance and disrespect for voters.

The NHS waiting list has increased under the last SEVEN Conservative prime ministers. Please RT if you think everyone should be aware.