Andrew Curry
@nextwavefutures
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A UK futurist. Will argue the toss on Twitter, but personal attacks get you blocked. I also block promoted tweets and idiots. He/him. @[email protected].
London
Joined January 2010
Musk’s absurd poll on the racist and reactionary Trump is the last straw. I have opened a Mastodon account <@nextwavef> and will be working to make the most of Mastodon. I’m not going to delete this account yet, but I will in time. My Mastodon server is < https://t.co/iZrCnYgNbV>.
mastodonapp.uk
UK Hosted and Managed Mastodon Instance. General communal space for discussion, everyone welcome! Now with a 1000 character limit for posts!
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There's always a tweet. This from 2018, when Yvette Cooper still had a backbone.
Truly, truly shocking. Home Office lawyers appear to have deliberately advised against giving child & teen refugees in France the reasons why they were refused family reunion with relatives in UK to prevent them appealing against decision. Level of inhumanity in this is appalling
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Tonight's Silent Walk marked the 8th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. By next year the Tower will be demolished but the struggle will go on until all the victims get justice.
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2/ The Manoa method was developed by Wendy Schultz, an American futurist based in the UK. She is not a researcher at Stellenbosch. The method you says is‘Three Transitions’ is the Three Horizons method. https://t.co/S6a4QuKKzX Perhaps an AI wrote this, and wasn’t checked?
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and
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Just wondering how long it is before European democracies block Twitter.
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In case you missed it - add Spain to the list turning on Musk
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The idea that using the private sector adds genuine additional capacity to support the NHS is "utter nonsense" says our Director. The private sector is entirely reliant on NHS doctors to do any operations. Without them it would collapse overnight
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Health secretary accused of talking ‘utter nonsense’ about private sector’s ability to help cut NHS waiting times
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‘Katherine Priddy’s The Pendulum Swing felt completely timeless’. The ultimate seal of approval for @KatherinePriddy ? https://t.co/WSrw2rVezx
@salutsunderland @nextwavefutures
salutlive.com
Andrew Curry writes: The end of the year is always a good time to look back at the records we have enjoyed over the last 12 months—in fact, I think it’s compulsory for a site like Salut! Live. Editor...
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For open-minded music lovers, Salut! Live offers the blues, North-eastern folk and a Sandy Denny tribute with a difference @nextwavefutures @francesalut
Salut! Live’s end-of-year chat about music we’ve been listening to covers @CATPOWER, John Mayall, Pitmen Poets, Jerron Paxton, Maureann Bradley, Carla Fuchs and more https://t.co/cIAMef6B0Z
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Two front teeth, that bow-wow daddy wouldn’t buy. @elizacarthy and @boden_jon set their Christmas sights higher https://t.co/XxS1qhQhY7
@nextwavefutures @francesalut
salutlive.com
Andrew Curry writes: There are some truly dreadful Christmas novelty songs, but some have a certain wit about them. I’m willing to stick my neck out here, and argue that I Want a Hippopotamus for...
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Day 2 of Salut! Live’s 12 Days of Winter: Here We Come A Wassailing by the Watersons from 1965 when they were folk music’s Beatles https://t.co/Um0y5ZNYq1
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First day: In Dulci Jubilo by Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band @MaddyAndTheCB
salutlive.com
Colin Randall writes: In Dulci Jubilo (in sweet rejoicing) is a traditional carol with roots in the Middle Ages. The original song used a macronic format - nothing to do with the beleaguered French...
At Salut! Live we’ve just launched ‘12 Days of Winter’—a set of seasonal #folk songs running from tomorrow until Xmas Eve. By way of a warm-up today, if that’s the right word, we have Magpie Arc’s ‘Jack Frost’, featuring @msimpsonian. @salutsunderland
https://t.co/fWxTB8vrx0
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First shout for @nextwavefutures’s neat idea of 12 Days of Christmas and/or winter :
salutlive.com
Colin Randall writes: In Dulci Jubilo (in sweet rejoicing) is a traditional carol with roots in the Middle Ages. The original song used a macronic format - nothing to do with the beleaguered French...
First day: In Dulci Jubilo by Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band @MaddyAndTheCB
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At Salut! Live we’ve just launched ‘12 Days of Winter’—a set of seasonal #folk songs running from tomorrow until Xmas Eve. By way of a warm-up today, if that’s the right word, we have Magpie Arc’s ‘Jack Frost’, featuring @msimpsonian. @salutsunderland
https://t.co/fWxTB8vrx0
salutlive.com
Andrew Curry writes: For the next 12 days here on Salut! Live we will be running a seasonal series called ‘12 Days of Winter’ which will celebrate folk song about this time of the year. Some of these...
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At Salut Live We’ve been enjoying @jim_wirth’s selection for Mojo of the best folk albums of 2024. His top pick, @HelloAstrid ‘s Shetland songs is a thing of beauty—which we’d missed completely. @salutsunderland
https://t.co/jRjqYqrxYg
salutlive.com
Andrew Curry writes: it’s that time of the year when Best Of lists start to appear in the music press, and we noticed the Mojo list of best 10 folk albums squeezed into the margins of one of their...
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If you like folk, folk-rock or acoustic music, why not visit the Salut! Live Facebook group. Our Artist of the Week, chosen by @nextwavefutures are @NiteworksBand
https://t.co/d5fBs2gedA
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Salutlive.com is my folk and folk-rock site abd this group complements its work. I did consider concentrating all activity here but with the help of...
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Seeing a Citroen Ami in central London is as rare as spotting a snow leopard in the wild. This vehicle should be the default for urban driving for those who must drive. SUVs should be taxed out of existence. Note how this beauty occupies only a 1/3 of a standard parking space
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Interesting digest of #Trump-ian purviews... curated and annotated by @nextwavefutures
thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com
In which I try to take a structural view of Trump’s election—from the short-term to more generational timescales.
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The Scots electro-folk band @NiteworksBand went out with a bang in their last London gig at the weekend. My review for Salut Live is here. @salutsunderland
https://t.co/RL2F1W7HUy
salutlive.com
Andrew Curry writes: Salut! Live has been to a few ‘final tour’ gigs already this year: Show of Hands in May, Oysterband in October. But none of them were anything like Nitework’s final concert in...
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