Laurence Saunders

Hi! Happy #showreelshareday British actor 40s Midlands & London based but work all over #film #tv #theatre #radio spotlight.com/8450-0168-0757 repped by brilliant @OliviaBellMgt Thanks @KateDaviesSpeak @ShowreelShare for organising this! imdb.com/name/nm1063422/ laurencesaunders.com

“I am wholly in favour of a designated heritage site at Station Street, that celebrates the UK’s first-ever repertory theatre, its oldest (working) cinema and an internationally important site of global music heritage and culture, in The Crown." blackcountryradio.co.uk/news/local-hea…

Using girls dressed in traditional Palestinian clothing for your performative post whilst serving in a government that supported and armed Israel's genocide. Despicable.

Hey @RichParkerLab @BrumLeader @Cllr_suleman Chris makes a fine point here. Know of anywhere with the UK's oldest working cinema, the first Rep Theatre or The birthplace of Black Sabbath and Heavy Metal? Or we could just let Glenbrook property demolish them. Thoughts?

A few days ago, British commentators who believe in nothing were asking why @ZackPolanski was spending more time talking about Middle Eastern wars than the environment…

The working class people of the world will Pay for this escalating war - their savings will Go Down - their homes will be bombed their schools and public gathering places and cultural halls flattened . Their sons and daughters will be out on the front line . The global elite will make more money . The big business people are ruining this planet for everyone else . They should be stopped . X

Reform IS the establishment. Reform will not make your lives easier. Reform will happily watch you freeze to death, send your children to war, and then blame immigrants. Wake up.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. They destroy the argument that big tech should be given the country’s creative output for free, and they lay out the case for maintaining and even strengthening existing copyright law to protect creatives from exploitation. They say: - the government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement - the government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms - the government’s mixed public messaging on AI & copyright is hindering licensing - the government should make a clear public statement that AI companies operating in the UK need to license their training data (which is the law) - AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?

@PhilipRalph9 @OborneTweets I’ve a half baked theory that the character of Gene Hunt (who I loved) is partly responsible for kickstarting Brexit and the rise of anti-woke.

@PhilipRalph9 @OborneTweets See also the wealth of Copaganda TV shows (they may do bad things but at the heart of it, the police are good) or the genre of Upstairs Downstairs stuff, where the subtext is the aristocracy are basically decent, so doff your cap, serf.

This confirms something I’ve long believed - Hollywood & the film and TV industries bear responsibility for the political catastrophe we’re living through globally. The stories they have favoured for the past 50+ years have celebrated ‘lone Wolf mavericks’ who ‘get the job done’-

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company ft.trib.al/jnT6fxC

@ShabanaMahmood Hope the ministerial car was worth it.

Dear @ShabanaMahmood, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Every single missile, drone, bomb and bullet used represents not only senseless death but also a transfer of wealth from tax payers to weapons manufacturers. Who are currently doing quite well.

All the time for a free night out, no time to chat to creative industry workers including one - me - who lives in her hometown of Wigan and would rather like to discuss the collapsing TV and film industry I work in.

Only 25% of the white electorate in Gorton & Denton voted Reform. Farage may as well complain that the election was ‘stolen’ by white Britons who didn’t vote at all, or who voted against bigotry.

An attack on Iran as Oman report significant progress on Iran US talks is a clear indication that an indicted Israeli Prime Minister mired in the genocide in Gaza and an Epstein compromised US President are dangerously out of control. Two men making the world unsafe for all of us

I don’t want my tax being spent on facilitating the return of these extremists from Dubai to the UK. They clearly despise our culture and way of life and they should seek refuge in the first safe country they arrive in. Am I doing this right?🤔

Imagine telling the world that you're liberating the women of Iran and one of the first things you do is blow up a school full of girls. Extraordinary.

STATEMENT BY PAUL HOLDEN IN RESPONSE TO RESIGNATION OF JOSH SIMONS Josh Simons doesn’t deserve to be an MP, let alone a Cabinet Minister. I will now work to make sure Parliamentary authorities hold him to account if our weak and supine Prime Minister will not. Simons, while a director of Labour Together, hired a reputation firm, APCO Worldwide, that used a series of invasive techniques to investigate me, my colleagues and my family, and a range of other British and American journalists. They found out where I lived and with whom. Simons made entirely false, defamatory and conspiratorial claims about me, my colleagues and my family. His actions threatened my livelihood and reputation as was well as that of my colleagues. It risked undermining ongoing work we were doing tackling grand corruption around the world, including in collaboration with multiple law enforcement agencies. It has caused me and my young family significant distress. It is appalling that Simons cannot bring himself to apologise to me and my family after his conduct towards us has been exposed. Let’s be clear: the contract signed with APCO by Simons sought to ‘proactively undermine’ factually accurate public interest stories that dealt with serious unlawful conduct by the most senior people in the incoming Labour administration, many of whom were Simons’ personal friends and political allies. This was intended to undermine not just my work, but the work of all of the journalists – including Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke of the Sunday Times and Matt Taibbi – working with me on these stories. My investigations sought to expose the rot at the heart of the political project that has since brought “Petie” Mandelson into the centre of government. They were motivated by serious concerns about this project’s approach to good governance, civil liberties and basic decency – all of which have been entirely vindicated. Sir Laurie Magnus’ investigation must also be criticised. I wrote to Sir Laurie this past week asking for an opportunity to give evidence. I had matters about which only I knew and which should have been considered. It is deeply unfortunate that Sir Laurie has not sought the evidence or opinions of the victims of Simons’ unacceptable behaviour. I believe Simons’ statements about my book and its treatment of the very serious issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party are defamatory and wrong. I am instructing lawyers with a view to bringing defamation proceedings in this respect.