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Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up

Finance is always an issue, but surely we are entitled to expect a higher moral stance from our cultural institutions, says writer Tom Jeffreys

The Guardian - UK

Woke capitalism is not to be sneered at. Gen Z is a mighty force for change

Young people don’t want prospective employers to merely pay lip service to their liberal social values

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Angus Robertson says divestment campaigns pose 'existential threat' to arts sector

THE Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has warned that divestment campaigns against corporate sponsors pose an “existential threat” to…

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Naomi Klein: ‘Nobody’s perfect – but that’s not an excuse for doing nothing’

The Doppelganger writer and winner of the Women’s prize for nonfiction on the war in Gaza, current credibility of the left and posters for her book being torn down in London

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society CEO defends Baillie Gifford sponsorship

Investment management firm cancelled deals with UK literary festivals over links to Israel and fossil fuel companies

The Guardian - UK

Wilding author Isabella Tree calls Baillie Gifford boycott a 'cheap jibe'

The rewilding pioneer was at the launch of a new documentary based on her book

Evening Standard

How the Giller Prize Became Associated with Genocide

Scotiabank’s military investments have tainted one of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards

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Baillie Gifford book festival protesters are losing the plot

Letters: Targeting companies based on their fossil fuel investment is absurd and sends the wrong message, say Mike Pitts and Harvey Sanders

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Baillie Gifford cancels all remaining sponsorships of literary festivals

Cambridge, Stratford, Wigtown and Henley festivals say firm ended deals after protests over its links to Israel and fossil fuels

The Guardian - UK

Popular book festival to end Baillie Gifford partnership after 14 years

THE Wigtown Book Festival has become the latest arts event to see its partnership with sponsor Baillie Gifford come to an end, organisers have…

The National (Scotland)

Baillie Gifford will no longer sponsor Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals

Investment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure

The Guardian - UK

Borders Book Festival ends Baillie Gifford sponsorship 'with great regret'

THE Borders Book Festival will no longer be sponsored by Baillie Gifford after activists called on literary festivals to end their relationship with…

The National (Scotland)

Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

Insistence on investment purity misses the point and will only lead to a decline in arts sponsorship

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Fossil Free Books are acting like teenagers — leave Hay Festival alone

The Hay Festival finished last night. The previous week it was blackmailed into ditching one of its sponsors, the wealth management group Baillie Gifford. A climate divestment activist group, Fossil Free Books, asked writers attending Hay to de-platform themselves in protest at Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship, because it invests two per…

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Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil

Book festivals and events still sponsored by Baillie Gifford to meet investment firm amid row over funding

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Artists pull out of Latitude festival over Barclays sponsorship

Singer CMAT says she asked festival organisers to find another sponsor but it was ‘made clear’ to her that this would not happen

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh international book festival ends Baillie Gifford partnership

Festival bows to pressure from authors and activists over investment firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel companies

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Scottish festival cuts ties with sponsor amid threat of boycotts over Israel links

A LEADING Scottish festival has cut ties with one of its key sponsors after the threat of boycotts due to alleged links to Israel and fossil fuel…

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Hay festival drops main sponsor after boycotts over Israel and fossil fuel links

Literary event ‘suspends’ arrangement with Baillie Gifford after Charlotte Church and Nish Kumar joined performers pulling out

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Musicians and artists boycott UK cultural events over Israel ties

Brighton’s Great Escape is the latest festival to be held to account by performers after a third quit over its Barclays Bank sponsorship

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Labour MP Dawn Butler withdraws from Hay festival in sponsorship row

Butler is among several writers refusing to appear at the literary festival over sponsor Baillie Gifford’s alleged involvement in ‘technology and arms in Israel’

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More than 200 authors renew call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

Fossil Free Books’ statement also demands that the book festival sponsor stops investing in ‘companies that profit from Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide’

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Gaza vote divides Society of Authors after call to condemn Israeli military action

Extraordinary general meeting of the UK writers’ union narrowly voted against making an official protest at violence that has killed ‘at least 95 journalists and media workers’

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Edinburgh international book festival announces ‘relaunch’ as sponsor row remains unresolved

New director Jenny Niven calls controversy over lead sponsor Baillie Gifford’s fossil fuel links ‘the nature of the beast’, but activists are still calling for authors to boycott the event

The National (Scotland)

Baillie Gifford urged to divest from firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements

An investment firm that sponsors Scottish cultural organisations invests in companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, The…

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