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Bristol Ideas closed 1 May 2024. Our X account will report on legacy projects - Festival of Economics and Festival of the Future City - and linked events and articles about ideas. For details of our work see: 1/
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Delighted to announce the appointment of David Olusoga -
@DavidOlusoga
- as our first patron. David has participated as speaker and chair in festival events - and provided a brilliant essay for our book Council Estate Memories. We look forward to working with him more.
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Aardman's and Bristol's answer to that Kardashian pic. HT
@BristolRed
http://t.co/6uqHPIp60U
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Clarke ‘writes with such compassion and humanity that you feel you are in the room with them, weeping for their loss, gasping at their courage and raging at the sacrifice of people facing a lethal virus in a paper mask and a plastic apron.’
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This is a fine profile by
@kehinde_andrews
of local hero Roy Hackett of the Bristol Bus Boycott and other battles for justice.
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New edition of
@DavidOlusoga
’s book arrives - fully revised and a new chapter bringing it up to date with the downfall of the Colston statue. It’s a terrifically important book and one that should be read widely.
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Next week A House Through Time starts on BBC 2 and it’s a Bristol house. Here’s presenter
@DavidOlusoga
researching the house and its history at Glenside Museum, in a casebook from the archives of the Lunatic Asylum at Bristol Archives (picture credit Bristol Archives):
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Visit to Colston Statue to see the response. It’s a powerful piece of work.
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‘When I was in hospital five years ago, I pretty much reread all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books. I love her take on how magic works, I love her characters, I love her stories. I love pretty much everything about her.’
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The new series of A House Through Time starts 21.00 Tuesday. Here’s David Olusoga with Karen Drake and David Drake, owners of 10 Guinea Street (BBC/Twenty Twenty Ltd./Mark Bourdillon). Follow
@DavidOlusoga
for updates. We have an interview with David 27 May.
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Looking forward to reading this by
@davidfrum
: ‘Denunciations of the current administration are ubiquitous, but Frum’s incisive prose and optimism—notably, regarding the chances of returning decency and integrity to the Republican Party—set this apart.’
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David Olusoga -
@DavidOlusoga
- on what next for Bristol: ‘the onus is on those of us who support the de-Colstonification of Bristol to reach out to our fellow citizens who were disturbed by the toppling of the statue...’ 1/2
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This story unravels with every sentence that is written and ends up with the truth being rather touching about a son buying land so his late disabled mother could look at the donkeys she rescued and cared for.
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We’re looking forward to the story of Bristol’s 10 Guinea St in A House Through Time starting 26 May. Here’s presenter
@DavidOlusoga
with Karen Drake and David Drake from the house (BBC / Twenty Twenty Ltd/ Mark Bourdillon). Get involved here: .
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This is very sad. We did two events with Ken. His ideas were always received with great interest and debate. Another loss for creative thinking, education and ideas. Thank you for all your work.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce Sir Ken Robinson died peacefully yesterday, 21st August 2020, surrounded by family after a short battle with cancer.
We will be following up with a further update as we begin to follow Sir Ken’s wishes and honour his legacy.
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Sarah Kendzior is essential reading in these times. This is out next month.
"It's the sense of having a government that seems to welcome death; a government that has abdicated even the pretense of working for its citizens or caring if they live or die."
-- from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, out April 7
Preorder here:
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The new series of A House Through Time starts next Tuesday. Here’s David Olusoga in the living room of the house, 10 Guinea Street (BBC/Twenty Twenty Ltd./Mark Bourdillon). Follow
@DavidOlusoga
for updates. We have an interview with David 27 May.
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We have had Julie Bindel speak twice and it’s an honour to have had her participate in our Festival. It’s disgusting that she was attacked after this event. We hope that swift action is taken by police and university.
I took part in a really brilliant event tonight at Edinburgh University, speaking about women’s sex-based rights. I was physically attacked as I left the event at the airport. This kind of intimidation has to stop. The person that attacked me was a man.
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Just launched: What Does Diana Wynne Jones Mean to Readers Today? - A celebration of Bristol-based fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones, with Colin Burrow, Neil Gaiman -
@neilhimself
- and Katherine Rundell.
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Dr Rachel Clarke’s Dear Life is one of the most important books that will be published this year. It should led to a national debate about the future of care and how we deal with end of life.
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Werner Herzog: 'If you don’t read, you will never be a filmmaker.” Reading list:
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Here’s Julie Bindel’s publisher on the Readings’ statement of regret:
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Tonight
@DavidOlusoga
looks at 10 Guinea Street, built by
a 'slave trader, Edmund Saunders, and learns of Bristol’s role as one of the world’s biggest slave-trading ports – a history with which the city has an increasingly uncomfortable relationship.'
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26 September: A celebration of Bristol-based fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones, with Colin Burrow, Neil Gaiman -
@neilhimself
- and Katherine Rundell. 4/
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Hearing the sad news about Deborah Orr this morning I remembered this tweet from a month ago.
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Howard Jacobson's last Independent column on what's wrong with social media
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George Orwell died on this day - 21 January 1950. He wrote two of the finest novels of the twentieth century. His work remains hugely influential today.
We’ll be looking at his life and work - and especially Nineteen Eighty-Four - in
#futurecity19
in October.
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Excellent article by
@nealstephenson
on innovation starvation, the death of ideas and the need for 'big stuff':
http://t.co/lvPIWq2Q
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New book coming from
@VersoBooks
by
@LellyK
. We’ve used Feminist City in our work on women and cities in our Festival of the Future City and look forward to reading this.
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Just launched 5 May: The Future For Law and Democracy in the UK with Nazir Afzal, Gina Miller, Joshua Rozenberg and Jessica Simor. Follow
@JMPSimor
@JoshuaRozenberg
@nazirafzal
@thatginamiller
for updates of work:
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Seen in Bath’s Royal Victoria Park during an early evening walk. Part of an anti-loneliness campaign.
Urban parks are such an important part of city life and living.
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Dr Rachel Clarke is one of the most admirable of people we have had the honour to work with. Honest, humane, moving, passionate -
@doctor_oxford
’s work should be read by all. Thank you.
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Rosa Brooks (Georgetown law professor and Transition Integrity Project): ‘All of our scenarios ended in both street-level violence and political impasse...The law is essentially ... it’s almost helpless against a president who’s willing to ignore it.’
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We’ve had the opportunity to read an advance copy of
@RobGMacfarlane
new book (out in May). It is wonderful, brilliant, moving. A remarkable achievement.
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Utopian thinking about places and cities for our Festival of the Future City 2017 starts here
#futurecity17
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How do we stay human in a technological world? Matt Haig offers a personal and vital look at how we can rehumanise ourselves in this age of anxiety and feel happy, human and whole in the twenty-first century. 19 July.
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Karl Marx liked a drink: . We look at Marx and what he means now 3 May:
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We’re announcing today that Bristol Ideas will close in May 2024.
Our 2023 programme - Festival of the Future City and Festival of Economics - will go ahead as planned.
There will be a final festival in April
2024.
More details in the statement.
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Yanis Varoufakis 20 October with Penguin Live almost full. Book here:
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Oliver Sacks has died. Compassionate and interested in many things, he leaves a huge legacy in the world of ideas
http://t.co/k5UYWTKaHF
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Darran Anderson: ‘Gropius’s aim was to introduce soul into the age of the machine. The Nazis’ was to introduce the machine into the soul.’
Darran -
@Oniropolis
- is one of the speakers in Bauhaus and cities now, 17 October in
#futurecity19
.
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We've changed our name to Bristol Ideas - and launched a new website. Here's more details on this.
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Government ministers shouldn’t be revealing latest plans about this crisis behind paywalls and leaking to Robert Peston. There’s the BBC. There’s their own websites. There’s the House of Commons. There’s blogs.
NEWS: My Telegraph article on the next stage of our
#coronavirus
plan:
We must all do everything in our power to protect lives
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Some reading on statues today (1): David Olusoga -
@DavidOlusoga
- on the Colston Statue and Bristol and what it meant for him to live with it and to see it removed. 1/2
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Everyone’s talking about the elephant in the room now.
woke up to a text from my mom about how a wild elephant went into a Sri Lankan hotel and gently wandered around while poking stuff with his trunk
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Missed Emily Wilson talk about her translation of The Odyssey? Listen here:
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Olivette Otele: ‘A city’s memory is truly collective when each community has found ways to acknowledge the past and address the social inequalities created by it. What is happening now in Bristol is truly inspirational. It’s history in the making.’ 1/2
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Nazir Afzal (
@nazirafzal
) joins Gina Miller (
@thatginamiller
), Joshua Rozenberg (
@JoshuaRozenberg
) and Jessica Simor (
@JMPSimor
). Free to all but please donate where you can.
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Following last night's brilliant A House Through Time about 10 Guinea Street we have an interview with writer/ presenter
@DavidOlusoga
on Facebook at 13.00.
#AHouseThroughTime
David Olusoga with owners Karen Drake and David Drake (BBC/Twenty Twenty Ltd./Mark Bourdillon) 1/2
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On 22 November we have
@DavidOlusoga
speaking. He’ll be talking about the new edition of his remarkable book Black and British: a forgotten history. You can also get editions for children and an illustrated version. All out from
@panmacmillan
.
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This is an exciting arrival: advance reading copy of Robert Macfarlane’s new book Underland. Everything Robert writes provides a wonderful reading and learning experience.
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Congratulations to Helen and Carla - two hard working, passionate and committed councillors who deserve these awards.
@carla_denyer
@helenhbristol
.
Carla Denyer will be talking about climate emergencies and cities 17 October:
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Our work this year includes a project with
@englishpen
and others on free speech and democracy. This is a good introduction to free speech by
@philosophybites
.
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Congratulations to Olivette Otele -
@OlivetteOtele
. We look forward to working with you. You were brilliant in our Festival of the Future City event.
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Stephanie Kelton -
@StephanieKelton
- is one of Prospect’s top 50 world thinkers.
Stephanie Kelton talks about The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy 12 October live online with Festival of Ideas and
@UniofBathIPR
:
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David Olusoga: ‘Whatever is said over the next few days, this was not an attack on history. This is history. It is one of those rare historic moments whose arrival means things can never go back to how they were.’
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Spotted in street in Bath. How great political quotes get appropriated.
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Just launched: Olivette Otele (
@OlivetteOtele
) on African Europeans 21 October. Olivette will be in discussion with
@ProfMadhuK
.
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Fintan O’Toole is such a fine writer (on many different things). Here he is on English nationalism, Brexit, Beckett: . Follow
@fotoole
for updates.
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This is out early next month but we had chance to read an advance copy. Thank you
@herdyshepherd1
for an honest, moving and inspirational book. It’s one we will be recommending strongly for reading in our
#economicsfest
and work on solutions to the big challenges we face.
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Congratulations to Vanessa Kisuule our new city poet. Delighted to announce her appointment today and look forward to working with her. Follow
@Vanessa_Kisuule
for updates and details of her other work. Thanks to
@milocool
for all his great work as our first city poet.
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In the British Museum’s Dissent exhibition there’s the exhibit Banksy sneaked into the BM collection and put on a wall:
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As Oxford Press removes nature words from children's dictionary Tom Gauld (
@tomgauld
) adds some new ones
http://t.co/7yXyWptOc6
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This is a good example of artists getting involved in creative protests against the destruction of the environment.
The Sheffield trees show how important nature is to cities. This is something we have looked at before and will do so again next year.
I wrote a poem for the Sheffield Tree Protestors called “Heartwood”,
in defence of trees facing unjust felling anywhere in the world. The artist Nick Hayes made a broadsheet poster of it. Inexplicably, two nights ago huge versions of Heartwood began to appear around Sheffield...
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Congratulations to
@DavidOlusoga
and
@HouseHistorian
. This is published today by
@picadorbooks
. We were planning a big event on this and the new TV series but that’s postponed. In the meantime, we’re recording an interview with David for release just after the TV transmission.
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Designing cities with women in mind 'will create a better environment for equality' and better for all
#futurecity17
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Jon Stewart vomits and loses his b**** as he hears about
#NOTW
http://t.co/ZYfwgwc.
Thanks
@shivmalik1
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Sam Bright -
@WritesBright
: Truss’s mini-budget ‘was the consummation of plans designed on Tufton Street, and of an alliance with Ms. Truss stretching back years. Under her watch, Britain has become a libertarian laboratory.’
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Delighted to announce that Caleb Parkin -
@CalebParkin
- is our next Bristol City Poet, following in the footsteps of Vanessa Kisuule and Miles Chambers. Caleb will hold the role from 2020-2022. Details here:
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Webb is clear and convincing...that addressing the gender conditioning of men will improve life for all'.
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‘Climate change is a real threat to society, it’s clear that we have to act, and Open Streets is undoubtedly a step in the right direction. We are wholeheartedly committed to creating an accessible, sustainable and people-friendly city.’
#futurecity19
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What if the effort, boldness and inspiration that led to the moon landing 50 years ago was applied to the challenges we face now? We enjoyed talking to Mariana Mazzucato -
@MazzucatoM
- about her new book and wider working. Now available as a new watch:
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‘There is something profoundly moving about watching different generations campaigning together for a better future. Rather than attack them, is it so outrageous to ask that we each start making some changes in our own lives?’
#futurecity19
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Arundhati Roy 'has produced a work so magnificent that it exceeds all expectations.' . See her in Bristol 7 June.
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Wonder what kind of response IRVINE WELSH
@WelshIrvine
will get in Bristol tonight:
http://t.co/MtRHxSOJQj
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Diane Coyle -
@DianeCoyle1859
- our
#economicsfest
director with
@ruskin147
and our director Andrew Kelly at the award of Diane’s Honorary Degree by
@BristolUni
. Diane has done so much for public understanding of economics and for Bristol. A wonderful day.
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This is well worth watching. In years to come
@TalkingPicsTV
will be seen as the channel that saw many of us through the pandemic.
12noon TODAY on
@TalkingPicsTV
The 1942 film🎥 “The Young Mr. Pitt” directed by Carol Reed from a screenplay by Frank Launder & Sidney Gilliat, with additional dialogue from Viscount Castlerosse
Stars Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert
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There’s now over 70,000 Stolpersteine stones ‘making them the world’s largest decentralised monument to the Holocaust’. . We’ll be looking at the history, reception, controversy and future of the project in
#futurecity19
.
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Looking for some good things to read? Here’s
@DavidOlusoga
from our 2019
#HomesforHeroes100
project book Council Estate Memories writing about Gateshead.
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This is a lovely idea.
The kids on my street in Bristol have researched our houses first inhabitants and made blue plaques for us. Here’s mine:
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This is out September from
@AllenLaneBooks
. The Shepherd’s Life is a remarkable book and this promises much. I was especially pleased to see Rachel Carson and Jane Jacobs cited as two of
@herdyshepherd1
’s heroines. And the acknowledgement to the life and work of Wendell Berry.
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Our Festival of Economics is running 16-18 November. All online/ all events free but please donate through pay what you can and we’ll be able to run more events next year. Programme here:
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No humanities, arts and social sciences means ‘education becomes nothing more than professional training, churning out people who can help run society efficiently but none who routinely and thoroughly ask what all that efficiency is in the service of.’
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Writer and activist
@GeorgeMonbiot
is in conversation with
@PlayingOut
on 8 October discussing children’s freedom to play out and his ideas for creating a fairer and healthier future for our children. Register here
#playingout
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