This sounds like the fait-accompli everyone feared. There will be no more Junior Conservatoire in Cardiff, the consultation is window dressing. What a desperate state of affairs.

“In the 1st instance, we will continue to deliver project work…& our holiday courses. Alongside these, we will consider how best to develop a new & sustainable future model, collaborating w/ other arts organisations, & building on ongoing partnership work.” Consultation, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama?

Freedom of Movement was used by around 15-20 million Brits every year.

Sophie Leach ISM One Dance UK Sharon Hodgson MP Sharon Hodgson MPMP House of Lords Nick Trench thank you for attending today’s joint #SaveOurSubjects APPG meeting

Sarah Kilpatrick Susan M Coles NSEAD Paula Briggs @AccessArt Ed Harlow Arts Emergency Campaign for the Arts The Stage Tes Musicians' Union Equity UKLA One Dance UK Black Lives in Music Daniel Kebede Sharon Hodgson MP The Labour Party Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦 Nick Trench Bob&Roberta Smith STEAM Co. 🚀🎨🎸📦🔥 Apart from the ‘he’ bit
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House of Lords Nick Trench Nick Trench in House of Lords thank you for asking this vital question

I see the art vigilantes have been out and about again. Vandalising Courbet’s Origin of the World this time. They’re just another bunch of abusers who think they have the right to do whatever they want to art. Like the Taliban.

Another death knell for music education in the UK. Without Junior conservatoires, where will our talented young people go to learn to play their instruments at an advanced enough level to be able to apply for undergrad? Where are all the talent pipelines?

Support for the study of the arts and humanities in the spotlight from 3.25pm as Nick Trench questions government on proposed university staff cuts.

📺 Watch #LordsQs at the link in our bio

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'AoC recommend we rejoin Erasmas+, but retain Turing as a global and possible commonwealth scheme' - Great to see Nick Trench referencing our internationalisation policy paper in the House of Lords. Read the paper here: aoc.co.uk/policy/opportu…

So I’ve been busy the last three weeks, working towards this. ⬇️

Without an emergency funding package from GOV.UK & Welsh Government, Welsh National Opera will become part-time. My public statement is available below, along with 176 signatures. 🧵1/5 #SaveWNO

thetimes.co.uk/article/40c462…

This is the reality of Brexit & all the shit it has caused. The Brexitshit brigade will of course deny its absolute failure but they would. Fact is Macron is right & everyone with half a brain cell knows it. Seems from election results public agrees too.

independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

This gives a new meaning to the German word, used even in public statements by Chancellor Angela Merkel, ‘ein Shitstorm’

Yes where is the coverage for the Greens' success? Sky News BBC News (UK) ITV News Channel 4 News ???

Yesterday several peers questioned government on the recent decision to cut grant funding for higher education arts courses.

Nick Trench said government seems 'wilfully blind' to the current threats to the arts in universities 👇

Years and years of neglect. Young people being denied treatment even after multiple suicide attempts. 120,000 children waited six months or longer between referral for mental health support and treatment in 2022-23. What happens to these young people who never receive any support

Your daily reminder that rejoining the Single Market would not need another referendum, as we never had one to leave it. It was never on the ballot, as you can be in the Single Market without being in the EU.

Brits want mutual free movement restored. 79% of us in a recent Omnisis poll believe we should have freedom to travel and work across Europe (88% after removing ‘don’t know’), and 73% believe, there should be ‘mutual free movement’ (84% after removing dk) yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/mu…

Ireland (6.5m people)announces £21 million to provide 11 new libraries and 12 new mobiles. Scale that up *ten times* to get an idea of how that would compare to the UK (67m people) if we did the same thing. (Nearest thing we have is LIF funding at £10.5m) independent.ie/regionals/lout…

Mark English Mike Galsworthy Yep. Could have already done it by rejoining EFTA from the start.