Have you seen Its A Sin or Queer as Folk or My Beautiful Launderette?
Maybe you have seen some of the many viral independent news pieces by the British Channel 4 News team?
Channel 4 is a publicly owned public service broadcaster, but it is not publicly funded.
It funds itself, and it keeps its head above water.
It is also fiercely independent and pretty much the last major media bastion for really holding to the government to account.
The UK government announced this week that they want to privatise Channel 4.
When they held a public consultation on this, 90% of respondants said this was a bad idea.
Those who have informed opinions are pretty much universally against this, and see it as a political move to silence an organisation that consistent represents marginalised communities, stands for diversity, invests in foreign correspondants and holds the government to account by asking awkward questions.
I don’t imagine this will gain much traction outside of the UK and this isn’t the spectacularly detailed post I would like to make with all the links and sources but it is happening and it is bad and we need to spread the word.
Technically speaking there is a lot of food in this house. However, none of it is sweet and none of it is microwaveable. Therefore, there is no food in this house.
This has become easily my most popular drawing since I’ve started making these book prints, (I’ll put this down to a general sense of wistfulness and longing on Tumblr) and I’ve very happily made a good few sales and got some nice reviews.
I’ve been able to bulk order a bit of stock and reduce the price on Etsy as I don’t need to pay the print on demand costs anymore. If anybody would like a copy to put up in their office/bedroom/library (or all 3 at once for those with studio apartments) the new price is up here with free delivery to the US and UK!
If you’d like a copy for free, reblog and tag #dreamlibrarygiveaway and I’ll pick someone out at random on 24/04/22 and post an 8x10 print to you. I’ll also pick 3 others and send out a 50% code.
