Kay
@kaymarquis.bsky.social
Theatre, books & writing.
Bits of culture & history that I find interesting 📸
Personal opinions on this & that.
SAST. Theatre 118
www.kaymarquis.com
Bits of culture & history that I find interesting 📸
Personal opinions on this & that.
SAST. Theatre 118
www.kaymarquis.com
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Kay
@kaymarquis.bsky.social
· Apr 29
Pilfered from @writershq.bsky.social so I could pin it to remind myself.
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A ban on reselling theatre tickets for more than their original price is being introduced by the government in a bid to “destroy the operating model of ticket touts”.
👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/government-to-ban-reselling-theatre-tickets-for-more-than-face-value
👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/government-to-ban-reselling-theatre-tickets-for-more-than-face-value
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A ban on reselling theatre tickets for more than their original price is being introduced by the government in a bid to “destroy the operating model of ticket touts”.
👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/government-to-ban-reselling-theatre-tickets-for-more-than-face-value
👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/government-to-ban-reselling-theatre-tickets-for-more-than-face-value
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Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
I was wondering about Andrew Gold's origin story. He sold a documentary to the BBC, couldn't sell another - it's extremely competitive - & claims it's because he's white, so now he peddles racism on YouTube.
🔗 He's not the musician: youtu.be/voNEgCKzves?...
🔗 He's not the musician: youtu.be/voNEgCKzves?...
Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being A Friend (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I was wondering about Andrew Gold's origin story. He sold a documentary to the BBC, couldn't sell another - it's extremely competitive - & claims it's because he's white, so now he peddles racism on YouTube.
🔗 He's not the musician: youtu.be/voNEgCKzves?...
🔗 He's not the musician: youtu.be/voNEgCKzves?...
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Right then. It's mid-November and if you're thinking about #Christmas shopping, now's the time. All my products are designed here in Manchester and made in the UK.
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Right then. It's mid-November and if you're thinking about #Christmas shopping, now's the time. All my products are designed here in Manchester and made in the UK.
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
Shop's open gailmyerscough.co.uk
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'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #womensart #Monday
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Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.
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People don’t get that Hollywood is incredibly conservative. There’s no industry that’s more risk-averse. They’re the people who will only laugh at a joke if everyone else laughs first.
When I've patiently explained to someone who has absolutely no links to this industry beyond me how it's actually VERY HARD to get in to television and I haven't been lucky or talented or pretty enough to crack that code yet and they then suggest "what about America?" I just start fully crying.
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
People don’t get that Hollywood is incredibly conservative. There’s no industry that’s more risk-averse. They’re the people who will only laugh at a joke if everyone else laughs first.
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I've decided to become a thinktank.
This is how thinktanks work. They decide to become a thinktank, declare themselves thinktanks and then because they're thinktanks, they can be quoted as newsworthy.
I can now spout any bollocks I like, and can be used in any news piece that it suits.
This is how thinktanks work. They decide to become a thinktank, declare themselves thinktanks and then because they're thinktanks, they can be quoted as newsworthy.
I can now spout any bollocks I like, and can be used in any news piece that it suits.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I've decided to become a thinktank.
This is how thinktanks work. They decide to become a thinktank, declare themselves thinktanks and then because they're thinktanks, they can be quoted as newsworthy.
I can now spout any bollocks I like, and can be used in any news piece that it suits.
This is how thinktanks work. They decide to become a thinktank, declare themselves thinktanks and then because they're thinktanks, they can be quoted as newsworthy.
I can now spout any bollocks I like, and can be used in any news piece that it suits.
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Always knock on walls as you walk by, you never know which spot might be the secret passage opening.
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Always knock on walls as you walk by, you never know which spot might be the secret passage opening.
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Word!
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Word!
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
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🔍 We've spoken to staff, volunteers, and patrons of the Mitchell Library. What we found about its condition makes for worrying reading about Glasgow's most celebrated public resource.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
Your favourite library is sinking
Rooms closed, basements flooded, is the Mitchell being run into the ground?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🔍 We've spoken to staff, volunteers, and patrons of the Mitchell Library. What we found about its condition makes for worrying reading about Glasgow's most celebrated public resource.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/your-favouri...
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America’s Catholic bishops issued a rare statement condemning the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate mass deportation.”
Catholic Bishops Take Rare Step to Slam Trump’s Deportations
MAGA has provoked the church’s first special statement in 12 years.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
America’s Catholic bishops issued a rare statement condemning the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate mass deportation.”
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Two days after publication, and this stone-cold racism from a Peer of the Realm has prompted precisely zero response from the political class.
He says, in print, that "the sons of immigrants" bring violence with them in their genes.
We're just pricing this in to public debate now, it seems.
He says, in print, that "the sons of immigrants" bring violence with them in their genes.
We're just pricing this in to public debate now, it seems.
Spectator running a piece by Daniel Hannan which leans heavily into the inferred idea that you're not necessarily British if you come from a migrant background, even if you were born and brought up here.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Two days after publication, and this stone-cold racism from a Peer of the Realm has prompted precisely zero response from the political class.
He says, in print, that "the sons of immigrants" bring violence with them in their genes.
We're just pricing this in to public debate now, it seems.
He says, in print, that "the sons of immigrants" bring violence with them in their genes.
We're just pricing this in to public debate now, it seems.
Sending this to an estate agent.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Sending this to an estate agent.
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Meet Pete the cat, my studio assistant.
According to him, he’s in charge of picking and packing, stocktaking, order wrapping and logistics management.
Pete says I’d be nothing without him. He might be right.
According to him, he’s in charge of picking and packing, stocktaking, order wrapping and logistics management.
Pete says I’d be nothing without him. He might be right.
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Meet Pete the cat, my studio assistant.
According to him, he’s in charge of picking and packing, stocktaking, order wrapping and logistics management.
Pete says I’d be nothing without him. He might be right.
According to him, he’s in charge of picking and packing, stocktaking, order wrapping and logistics management.
Pete says I’d be nothing without him. He might be right.
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The Neo-Nazi Groyper War to capture the Republican Party is a good example of "network war." A group existing mostly online ("in the cloud) takes power in the real world. When it becomes powerful enough to also take land, the victor of a network war can become a network state. That's the 101 theory.
In 2022, Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan—formerly of Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase—envisioned a Second American Civil War.
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Neo-Nazi Groyper War to capture the Republican Party is a good example of "network war." A group existing mostly online ("in the cloud) takes power in the real world. When it becomes powerful enough to also take land, the victor of a network war can become a network state. That's the 101 theory.
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Woke up to this lovely write-up following @debsca.bsky.social 's performance of Green Knight in Cambridge last week! 💚
www.indiependent.co.uk/dont-forget-...
www.indiependent.co.uk/dont-forget-...
“Don’t Forget Me”: Keeping Medieval Writings Alive Onstage : The Indiependent
Keziah Cho looks at ways that theatre keeps medieval writings such as Gawain and the Green Knight alive on stage.
www.indiependent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Woke up to this lovely write-up following @debsca.bsky.social 's performance of Green Knight in Cambridge last week! 💚
www.indiependent.co.uk/dont-forget-...
www.indiependent.co.uk/dont-forget-...
The Clanchy saga is the strangest phenomenon. She's now decided that she comes across badly in the BBC podcast because the presenter had to walk past pro-Palestine protesters.
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Clanchy saga is the strangest phenomenon. She's now decided that she comes across badly in the BBC podcast because the presenter had to walk past pro-Palestine protesters.
I used to concentrate better listening to classical music, but recently, Paul McCartney's solo career has been more productive. Also, a band called @bradford-band.bsky.social who create beautiful, gritty dreamy songs about real life.
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I used to concentrate better listening to classical music, but recently, Paul McCartney's solo career has been more productive. Also, a band called @bradford-band.bsky.social who create beautiful, gritty dreamy songs about real life.
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I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now
Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Be sure to check back here to be the first to know…🤔
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Be sure to check back here to be the first to know…🤔
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I apologise profusely for all the trouble I caused to you. I am prepared for the required punishment.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I apologise profusely for all the trouble I caused to you. I am prepared for the required punishment.
Vivian Kubrick has lost her mind & thinks Scotland is a conquered Islamic nation.
A lot of people need their WiFi cut.
A lot of people need their WiFi cut.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Vivian Kubrick has lost her mind & thinks Scotland is a conquered Islamic nation.
A lot of people need their WiFi cut.
A lot of people need their WiFi cut.
British multiculturalism has failed because we don't all agree with hacks who write for Spiked.
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
British multiculturalism has failed because we don't all agree with hacks who write for Spiked.