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Baillie Gifford boycotts achieve nothing

Letter: Fossil Free Books has heightened the risk of sponsoring the arts, says Finbarr O’Mahony

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2024

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 · Jun 27, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2024

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The Observer view on Baillie Gifford sponsorship row: writing is on the wall for book lovers

Now the investment fund is pulling out of literary festivals, what other sponsors will dare expose themselves to the scrutiny of Fossil Free Books?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2024

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) · Jun 4, 2024

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 · Jun 4, 2024

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…

Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2024

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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…

The National (Scotland) · May 30, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2024

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’

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2024

Row erupts as more authors urge Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuels

MORE authors have joined calls for the Scottish investment bank Baillie Gifford to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 17, 2023

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