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Terrible camera angle but what glorious (no pun intended) music to play. Here's the opening of the Gloria from Bach's Mass in F from a recording session last month with my colleague Lionel Pointet and Gli Angeli Genève.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Oh bum. That happened last year, too. 🤬
Prof. Jiang made several predictions each became a reality.
First that Trump would win the elections, second that he would attack Iran, the third, which has not happened yet, the war on Iran will collapse the global economy and end America’s hegemony.
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Wow, I did not know this. 🤩
Looking at you Clive Lewis... 👀
Hier in Großbritannien ändert sich das etwas. Unser Radiosender für klassischer Musik (BBC3) spielt ganz selbstverständlich täglich Musik von Frauen.
Photos that don't exist anywhere else are automatically important.
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
A blasted calling duck, or probably crossbreed calling duck/mallard, sitting on a ledge right outside my bedroom window, quacking its head off, presumably for the sheer joy of hearing its own voice. It flew off when I rattled the curtain on its rings. Go and be noisy somewhere else, love.
After I read this, I actually went and googled "stuffed toy capybara realistic", with the half-formed - nay, quarter-formed - idea that I could give it to one of our enemies.
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
Also, some of the best tunes in all music theatre. The Street Where You Live is quite simply sublime.
Not me. Every single word I write is cherishably pertinent.
No, no, everybody has a really bad cold that might or might not be Covid.
(mine is)
I think operatic voice-training would be a far better option.
Surely the cries of "hard... hard... HARD!!!" form one of the great delights of the game?
Quite. 🌵
I couldn't agree more. 🌵
Quote-posting this for the absolutely epic alt text...
Blimey - you don't hold back with your alt text, do you? Epic.
Colour me unsurprised.
Marvellous! She was an answer on Pointless last night - I had never heard of her!
Buy one - it will bring you joy.
In our house, we have very few reasons to watch telly in the morning - it's generally frowned on except under the following circumstances:
1) a Test Match (cricket)
2) a General Election
3) Major international news (9/11, Ukraine.
We have now added
3a) the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. 🥳
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested at Sandringham home – latest updates
What did you do to make the wombats angry? Or was the cause of their anger nothing to do with you?
I wonder whether the dog is vaccinated.
