Catherine Black
@catherineblack1.bsky.social
Cellist Teacher. Runs cellocourses.com and Vaulted Sky Music. Cat lover and chocoholic
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Seems like a good day for us to remind ourselves about some of the donations that Wes Streeting has received….🚨🚨🚨
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Seems like a good day for us to remind ourselves about some of the donations that Wes Streeting has received….🚨🚨🚨
No Wes Streeting, the BMA is not acting like a cartel. It’s acting like a trade union. And frankly it’s disgusting to hear you talk like this while huge numbers of doctors can’t get NHS jobs because you haven’t created them, while millions of patients are on waiting lists🚨🚨🚨
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Such a pity that frontline NHS staff aren’t given the space in newspapers to air their thoughts, as Streeting is. The NHS is currently missing around 100,000 staff. It’s no surprise when they’re bashed continually for fighting for fair working conditions🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Such a pity that frontline NHS staff aren’t given the space in newspapers to air their thoughts, as Streeting is. The NHS is currently missing around 100,000 staff. It’s no surprise when they’re bashed continually for fighting for fair working conditions🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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You’ve got to wonder about a Labour government that’s this furious about frontline NHS staff fighting for fair working conditions. Many resident doctors cant even find work in the NHS right now, because Starmer and Streeting are failing to create jobs for them.. 🚨🚨🚨
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
You’ve got to wonder about a Labour government that’s this furious about frontline NHS staff fighting for fair working conditions. Many resident doctors cant even find work in the NHS right now, because Starmer and Streeting are failing to create jobs for them.. 🚨🚨🚨
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Thank you Anna Maxwell Martin for backing the @asgsfprotest.bsky.social campaign🙏
These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering & were introduced without consultation, warning and no evidence base
These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering & were introduced without consultation, warning and no evidence base
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Thank you Anna Maxwell Martin for backing the @asgsfprotest.bsky.social campaign🙏
These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering & were introduced without consultation, warning and no evidence base
These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering & were introduced without consultation, warning and no evidence base
Passionate cellists do join us for Winter Music in Lewes on November 22nd for a thrilling days playing and development
#cello #cellocourses
#cello #cellocourses
Ahoy #cellists
Winter Music is an ancient & rich seam of music and I have a new clutch of carols to share with you on November 22nd from 10am-3.30 pm in central Lewes, Sussex.
A great days playing & learning awaits you. Book your place now at www.cellocourses.com & I forward your scores.
Winter Music is an ancient & rich seam of music and I have a new clutch of carols to share with you on November 22nd from 10am-3.30 pm in central Lewes, Sussex.
A great days playing & learning awaits you. Book your place now at www.cellocourses.com & I forward your scores.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Passionate cellists do join us for Winter Music in Lewes on November 22nd for a thrilling days playing and development
#cello #cellocourses
#cello #cellocourses
A feast of inspiring music, ideas and enjoyment await cellists of passion at Unsung Heroes Cello Ensemble Summer School in 2026 and it’s already booking. See www.cellocourse.com
#cellists #musicians #cello
#cellists #musicians #cello
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A feast of inspiring music, ideas and enjoyment await cellists of passion at Unsung Heroes Cello Ensemble Summer School in 2026 and it’s already booking. See www.cellocourse.com
#cellists #musicians #cello
#cellists #musicians #cello
#cellists Unsung Heroes Cello Ensemble Summer School offers a fabulous feast of music, ideas and enjoyment for you in 2026 and it’s booking now.
You can see more at www.cellocourse.com
You can see more at www.cellocourse.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
#cellists Unsung Heroes Cello Ensemble Summer School offers a fabulous feast of music, ideas and enjoyment for you in 2026 and it’s booking now.
You can see more at www.cellocourse.com
You can see more at www.cellocourse.com
Ahoy #cellists
Winter Music is an ancient & rich seam of music and I have a new clutch of carols to share with you on November 22nd from 10am-3.30 pm in central Lewes, Sussex.
A great days playing & learning awaits you. Book your place now at www.cellocourses.com & I forward your scores.
Winter Music is an ancient & rich seam of music and I have a new clutch of carols to share with you on November 22nd from 10am-3.30 pm in central Lewes, Sussex.
A great days playing & learning awaits you. Book your place now at www.cellocourses.com & I forward your scores.
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ahoy #cellists
Winter Music is an ancient & rich seam of music and I have a new clutch of carols to share with you on November 22nd from 10am-3.30 pm in central Lewes, Sussex.
A great days playing & learning awaits you. Book your place now at www.cellocourses.com & I forward your scores.
Winter Music is an ancient & rich seam of music and I have a new clutch of carols to share with you on November 22nd from 10am-3.30 pm in central Lewes, Sussex.
A great days playing & learning awaits you. Book your place now at www.cellocourses.com & I forward your scores.
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This article completely misses out that there’s a £1 billion redundancy bill associated with making the changes Wes Streeting wants, and no one wants to pay it, so thousands of staff have been left in limbo. There’s nothing ‘efficient’ about that 🚨
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This article completely misses out that there’s a £1 billion redundancy bill associated with making the changes Wes Streeting wants, and no one wants to pay it, so thousands of staff have been left in limbo. There’s nothing ‘efficient’ about that 🚨
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
If the NHS matters to you, and that privatisation is increasing, listen to this, and do all the things that Julia and Everydoctor need us to do
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If the NHS matters to you, and that privatisation is increasing, listen to this, and do all the things that Julia and Everydoctor need us to do
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This *very* well timed piece by Will Lloyd in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social is well worth a read
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Abolish the monarchy
It’s more than Prince Andrew – the whole House of Windsor is rotten to the core
www.newstatesman.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This *very* well timed piece by Will Lloyd in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social is well worth a read
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Thames Water paid £20m to cover the due diligence costs of KKR for abortive attempt to buy TW.
Rich pickings for advisers. Customers pick up the tab for management follies. Details never provided.
TW has £20bn debt, survives by dumping sewage in rivers, fleecing captive customers.
archive.ph/Ovj5V
Rich pickings for advisers. Customers pick up the tab for management follies. Details never provided.
TW has £20bn debt, survives by dumping sewage in rivers, fleecing captive customers.
archive.ph/Ovj5V
Thames Water paid £20mn to cover KKR’s due diligence for abortive bid
Cost adds to multimillion pound fees billed by advisers trying to secure utility’s future
www.ft.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Thames Water paid £20m to cover the due diligence costs of KKR for abortive attempt to buy TW.
Rich pickings for advisers. Customers pick up the tab for management follies. Details never provided.
TW has £20bn debt, survives by dumping sewage in rivers, fleecing captive customers.
archive.ph/Ovj5V
Rich pickings for advisers. Customers pick up the tab for management follies. Details never provided.
TW has £20bn debt, survives by dumping sewage in rivers, fleecing captive customers.
archive.ph/Ovj5V
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The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better.
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!
Passionate cellists do join me on November 8th for Your Tool Kit on Zoom from 6-8.15pm GMT.
An Autumn think about how we work well, and whats happening when we lose that mindful approach?
I have a workout to refresh and some specific technical thoughts too.
Detailed notes follow
See cellocourse.com
An Autumn think about how we work well, and whats happening when we lose that mindful approach?
I have a workout to refresh and some specific technical thoughts too.
Detailed notes follow
See cellocourse.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Passionate cellists do join me on November 8th for Your Tool Kit on Zoom from 6-8.15pm GMT.
An Autumn think about how we work well, and whats happening when we lose that mindful approach?
I have a workout to refresh and some specific technical thoughts too.
Detailed notes follow
See cellocourse.com
An Autumn think about how we work well, and whats happening when we lose that mindful approach?
I have a workout to refresh and some specific technical thoughts too.
Detailed notes follow
See cellocourse.com
Make it make sense
I think having it as a museum of American fascism with a recreation of the cell in which ex-Emperor Vance was incarcerated after the 2029-32 Civil War might be a better use of the space.
Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Make it make sense
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I’m so happy to see this.
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is one of our own. Like @thenerve.news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit.
Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is one of our own. Like @thenerve.news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit.
Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏
Sorcery in Caerphilly:
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I’m so happy to see this.
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is one of our own. Like @thenerve.news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit.
Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is one of our own. Like @thenerve.news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit.
Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏
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Mentioned this before on here but recently read Patrick Hamilton’s classic novel Hangover Square
Was published on eve of World War II. Fascism - British fascism - runs like a stick of rock through the book.
Britain was far more like other European countries then often admits
Was published on eve of World War II. Fascism - British fascism - runs like a stick of rock through the book.
Britain was far more like other European countries then often admits
October 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Mentioned this before on here but recently read Patrick Hamilton’s classic novel Hangover Square
Was published on eve of World War II. Fascism - British fascism - runs like a stick of rock through the book.
Britain was far more like other European countries then often admits
Was published on eve of World War II. Fascism - British fascism - runs like a stick of rock through the book.
Britain was far more like other European countries then often admits
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‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
October 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
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This case stems from the systemic failure & subsequent cover-up revealed by 2020 Russia Report. Boris Johnson refused to investigate but what is UK govt's excuse now??
Read about this 5-year campaign & why it's even more necessary than ever now.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Read about this 5-year campaign & why it's even more necessary than ever now.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Case We Shouldn’t Have Had to Bring
Why three ex-MPs are taking Britain to Europe’s “Supreme Court” to defend our elections
substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This case stems from the systemic failure & subsequent cover-up revealed by 2020 Russia Report. Boris Johnson refused to investigate but what is UK govt's excuse now??
Read about this 5-year campaign & why it's even more necessary than ever now.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
4/
Read about this 5-year campaign & why it's even more necessary than ever now.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
4/
Absolutely
This doesn't get anything like the attention it deserves. Unpaid carers are the unsung heroes of this country, they deserve more help from the government.
"Stop penalties for unpaid carers"
- Ed Davey MP, Leader Lib Dems 🔶
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Ed Davey MP, Leader Lib Dems 🔶
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Absolutely
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When was the last time you heard a politician in the media asked anything like-
-How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected?
-How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect?
I cannot remember.
-How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected?
-How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect?
I cannot remember.
Where else could this very smart & bound to succeed approach to “beating” the far right be happening then?
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
When was the last time you heard a politician in the media asked anything like-
-How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected?
-How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect?
I cannot remember.
-How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected?
-How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect?
I cannot remember.
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Why isn't this a bigger story?
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Why isn't this a bigger story?
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cellists of passion All About My Bow immerses in Elgar’s tender & ardent Salut d’amour on Saturday October 4th from 6-8.15pm BST.
Players join from far and wide.
You recieve notes afterwards & we work using the mute button.
You can book now at www.cellocourse.com
Players join from far and wide.
You recieve notes afterwards & we work using the mute button.
You can book now at www.cellocourse.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Cellists of passion All About My Bow immerses in Elgar’s tender & ardent Salut d’amour on Saturday October 4th from 6-8.15pm BST.
Players join from far and wide.
You recieve notes afterwards & we work using the mute button.
You can book now at www.cellocourse.com
Players join from far and wide.
You recieve notes afterwards & we work using the mute button.
You can book now at www.cellocourse.com