Alex Andreou

A pair of bumble bees on my roof garden, hungrily buzzing around the hyacinths and crocuses, has made me inordinately happy. This is when food really helps them.

Everything has sprung a tad too early, but (fingers crossed) the cold snap this w/e is not forecast cold enough to kill this head start.

Back by popular demand: Charlie Gammell on the latest in Iran Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 10 March · 39m

🆕 Update on Iran War 🇮🇷

The most informative pairing on all things Iran is back with what is becoming (sadly) a weekly slot. @snellarthur.bsky.social and Charlie Gammell offer actual insight rather than breathless speculation.

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This is basically 98% Camus's essay + a Hades punchline (glad to see they acknowledged it at the end). And, yes, of course I cover it. The essay, rather than the sketch that is.

🚨🚨Back by popular demand🚨🚨 - keep an eye on your podcast feeds as I have the great Charlie Gammell back on the pod talking about the latest in Iran. Out in the next few hours...

🚨🚨It's out on Thursday!🚨🚨

If you're not much of a reader you can get the audiobook. Twelve and a half hours of my uninterrupted voice... 😳
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It's not "tanking". It's still 30% higher than before this mess. Just not as bad as yesterday, because he came out today and said it will be over soon.

Brent crude.

LIVE Trump says Iran war will be over 'pretty quickly' but US hasn't 'won enough' yet, as Israel launches strikes on Tehran The US president says he is "more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory", hours after telling CBS News the war is "very complete, pretty much".

Trump at his golf club having selfies taken.

Crude oil graph showing a 30% rise this month.

Soon as this genius thinks he's "won enough", world can go back to trying to recover from this crisis AND the last one, caused by his previous brilliant idea: tariffs.

Meanwhile, he's at his golf club taking selfies and Congress - only body with the power to stop this - continues to enable him.

Fab.

If I get Denque Fever, it will be my first stop.

Nah. People are upset.

I didn't dismiss it. It's just not for me. I think when one's job is to keep up with the real-life bleakness 24/7 that is the news, that is allowed. xx

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(When I say Elsa has nothing to do with the swan, the swan of course IS her cursed brother. She just never rides it or sings to it.)

It is entirely possible that Nilsson used to tell that story in her recitals. She was apparently a very funny raconteuse that loved to tell opera anecdotes and Melchior lived in the US after his retirement and during Nilsson's Met dominance. It is almost impossible they wouldn't have met many times.

I done this. #humblebrag

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Cannot be Nilsson. Elsa dies and has nothing to do with the swan. If it ever happened as reported, it was Melchior in a Met 1936 production, as I read it in a chronicle from the era.

Don't agree. TWD at its best was magnificent.

Ha! I never know where you will take me, either!

Good talk.

I have tried it twice. Maybe you missed out on what I did with that time instead. 😀

That's quite patronising.

Can I just watch the final montage without the previous several years?

😂

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I was talking, more specifically, in the context of tragedy and catharsis. A comedy or the circus does not have the same duty, obviously.

It's all good. Peace.

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That there was "too much immigration with too little planning," is not just totally different to "too much immigration," but pretty uncontroversial, in my view.

It's like saying, "we invited too many people to dinner for the amount of food we had cooked" and someone thinking it means I hate people.

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