Max Maslen
@max_maslen
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Principal Dancer - Birmingham Royal Ballet
Desolation Row
Joined February 2011
They’re really going to do it. They’re going to will us into World War III. These old and decrepit demons of sloth and avarice are drunk on their dwindling mortality, and knowing that they cannot take it with them, they will burn everything to assure that nothing is left behind.
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"In 1990, long before “levelling up” became a political football, Sir Peter Wright proposed something so bold that people assumed he’d taken leave of his senses. Move one of the country’s largest and most prestigious arts organisations from London to Birmingham. Leave Covent
ichoosebirmingham.com
And Shifted a City
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This pic is a modern masterpiece. The "cross to bear" The flandarized mega church THE FUCKING GAMBLING AD IN THE BACKGROUND??? Artists of the past took decades to complete their magnum opus, but today? It only takes one push of a button.
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Station Street should be the UK's premier grassroots arts quarter. The UK's oldest working cinema, the first Rep theatre, the birthplace of Black Sabbath & home to 20+ @rockhall of Fame icons. Instead "developers" have closed two vital venues, had zero engagement & let them rot
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
theonion.com
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince...
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Banksy’s new artwork at the Royal Courts of Justice is a judge striking a protester with his gavel with the CCTV turned away. They've already hidden it.
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Birmingham's birthplace of Black Sabbath & Heavy Metal still rots after 11 years of Toyoko Inns neglect... While the rest of the world continues to celebrate the life of Ozzy Osbourne. This time @yungblud & Aerosmith's Steve Tyler at the MTV Video Music Awards. Save The Crown!
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings. Poor attendance record in parliament. Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven. Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”. https://t.co/yZRNfBCUWi
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
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When the police are done arresting Quaker pensioners, maybe they could look into Britain’s pyromaniac property developers?
Firefighters are tacking a large fire at the disused Raven Hotel in Droitwich Spa. The building is thought to have stood for nearly 800 years. Read: https://t.co/yZ5EDQeOu8
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Israel says it killed these Palestinian Al Jazeera journalists, claiming - without providing any evidence - that Al Sharif was a terrorist. Previous Israeli claims about him were rejected as unsubstantiated smears by Al Jazeera and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital https://t.co/MMKatjgeAa
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The most shocking aerial footage yet of Gaza, filmed two days ago from aboard an ‘aid’ airdrop plane.
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So the internet is dead & full of fake people & bots, but the rest of us real humans will have to scan our faces or send ID to use it??? Nice nice, 10/10 dystopia
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But hey, at least you can talk to your fake girlfriend and make fake art and read fake posts from fake people on a dead internet that costs increasingly more to engage with while also making you dumber, lonelier, and angrier.
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It started with them denying they'd ever bomb schools or hospitals. Now they've obliterated every single structure - thousands of war crimes.
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Western countries will never be forgiven for their role in the deliberate and mass starvation of innocent children, in front of our eyes, in the year 2025. Genocide.
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The Right, THEN : "Shamima Begun at 15 was old enough to know the consequences of their actions." The Right, NOW : "Voting at 16? But these kids aren't old enough to know the consequences of their actions !!"
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man nothing will ever beat the feeling of spontaneously taking a trip up to the video store on a friday night with mom or dad and starting your weekend picking up a movie and a pizza. forever bummed my kids will never get to experience that too :(
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