David Nice
@davidnice.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.
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David Nice
@davidnice.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Giving it a try on here after low-key interactions on Mastodon - excellent for finding out about the world, but I missed most of the musical folk I left behind on Xitter last year. Good to see some famiiar faces already.
Third time of posting, this time on 11.11, because people need to watch and hear this. We don't just remember heroism in a uniform. And these eloquent words should live on, not least as a warning today.
Please watch and listen - the ever resonant pamphlets of the White Rose group, swiftly arrested and executed, read and translated by Oxford students the same age as many of the participants (Sophie Scholl was 22). On Friday in Snape, the project collaborated with the superb choral group Sansara.
Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading
YouTube video by TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Third time of posting, this time on 11.11, because people need to watch and hear this. We don't just remember heroism in a uniform. And these eloquent words should live on, not least as a warning today.
£41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. It's a slap in the face to all those wrongfully convicted Post Office staff. Join me and 280,000 others demanding Fujitsu is finally held to account. Sign the petition now!
Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal
£41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. And that's on top of another whopping £65m the Government paid the scandal ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
£41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. It's a slap in the face to all those wrongfully convicted Post Office staff. Join me and 280,000 others demanding Fujitsu is finally held to account. Sign the petition now!
Annual revisit, on 11.11, of the blog entry in which I first pieced together detais about my paternal grandfather, mustard-gassed at the end of a war he was in one sense lucky to survive. Needless to say, he died long before I was born. davidnice.blogspot.com/2014/11/capt...
Captain George Nice
Until this September, I'd never seen a photograph of my paternal grandfather, George Nice. I only knew that he was posted by the British...
davidnice.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Annual revisit, on 11.11, of the blog entry in which I first pieced together detais about my paternal grandfather, mustard-gassed at the end of a war he was in one sense lucky to survive. Needless to say, he died long before I was born. davidnice.blogspot.com/2014/11/capt...
Aldeburgh Beach, 10pm, Saturday.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Aldeburgh Beach, 10pm, Saturday.
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🚨 “How could I not?” A history lesson. 1/2
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
🚨 “How could I not?” A history lesson. 1/2
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Slovakia just rewrote its Constitution to erase legal gender recognition, restrict adoption, and ban surrogacy. Tell the EU to act now to defend equality, family rights, and democracy. ✊ Sign here: a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/
Defend equality and LGBTI+ lives in Slovakia
Slovakia’s new Constitution, denies legal gender recognition, restricts adoption, and bans surrogacy. Sign now to demand that the EU act to defend equality, family rights, and the rule of law.
a.allout.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Slovakia just rewrote its Constitution to erase legal gender recognition, restrict adoption, and ban surrogacy. Tell the EU to act now to defend equality, family rights, and democracy. ✊ Sign here: a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/
Please remember, amidst all the shrillness, that the BBC, ahem, is about much more than the TV news. Which I never watch. But I do listen to the superb World Service, go to Proms and concerts given by the orchestras, watch dramas and Storyville documentaries. Now settle down, folk, and support it.
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Please remember, amidst all the shrillness, that the BBC, ahem, is about much more than the TV news. Which I never watch. But I do listen to the superb World Service, go to Proms and concerts given by the orchestras, watch dramas and Storyville documentaries. Now settle down, folk, and support it.
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Lenur Khalilov, a Crimean #Tatar with liver cancer, was rearrested by russia on 8 Nov 2025. Despite court orders for release due to grave illness, russia ignores its laws, likely sentencing him to die in prison.
khpg.org/en/1608815245
khpg.org/en/1608815245
Sentenced to die in immense pain for religious independence in Russian-occupied Crimea
Lenur Khalilov is gravely ill and Russia’s rearrest is both a death sentence in his case and a clear indication that even Russian legislation will not apply in the case of Crimean Tatar and other Ukra...
khpg.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Lenur Khalilov, a Crimean #Tatar with liver cancer, was rearrested by russia on 8 Nov 2025. Despite court orders for release due to grave illness, russia ignores its laws, likely sentencing him to die in prison.
khpg.org/en/1608815245
khpg.org/en/1608815245
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
Enthusiasm might inform essential political and global decisions, but it cannot be a driver in that sphere. No leaderships seem to be acting in the full interests of the planet. Clear heads, devastating facts, seem to be in short supply. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Enthusiasm might inform essential political and global decisions, but it cannot be a driver in that sphere. No leaderships seem to be acting in the full interests of the planet. Clear heads, devastating facts, seem to be in short supply. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Absolute clarity as ever from one of the few in the US who points the way to its only possible future, a better one, with younger colleagues like @aoc.bsky.social ready to do their damnedest.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Absolute clarity as ever from one of the few in the US who points the way to its only possible future, a better one, with younger colleagues like @aoc.bsky.social ready to do their damnedest.
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Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Repeat: the most serious and vital texts for Remembrance Sunday. Give yourself the full hour plus.
Please watch and listen - the ever resonant pamphlets of the White Rose group, swiftly arrested and executed, read and translated by Oxford students the same age as many of the participants (Sophie Scholl was 22). On Friday in Snape, the project collaborated with the superb choral group Sansara.
Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading
YouTube video by TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Repeat: the most serious and vital texts for Remembrance Sunday. Give yourself the full hour plus.
Please watch and listen - the ever resonant pamphlets of the White Rose group, swiftly arrested and executed, read and translated by Oxford students the same age as many of the participants (Sophie Scholl was 22). On Friday in Snape, the project collaborated with the superb choral group Sansara.
Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading
YouTube video by TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Please watch and listen - the ever resonant pamphlets of the White Rose group, swiftly arrested and executed, read and translated by Oxford students the same age as many of the participants (Sophie Scholl was 22). On Friday in Snape, the project collaborated with the superb choral group Sansara.
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Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani is STILL out chatting it up with the people. He was trying to do content but the voters kept popping up.🥹
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani is STILL out chatting it up with the people. He was trying to do content but the voters kept popping up.🥹
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Help stop the suspension of music courses at Nottingham University. c.org/DQ4fHkQmms
We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
c.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Help stop the suspension of music courses at Nottingham University. c.org/DQ4fHkQmms
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Christians in Lebanon
Israel wipes out the entire village of Mhaibib in South Lebanon, home to shrine of Prophet Benjamin.
The shrine, located atop a hill and featuring arched chambers, a historic courtyard, cemetery, and tomb, was over 2,100 years Old.
Where’s MSM ..where’s the outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Israel wipes out the entire village of Mhaibib in South Lebanon, home to shrine of Prophet Benjamin.
The shrine, located atop a hill and featuring arched chambers, a historic courtyard, cemetery, and tomb, was over 2,100 years Old.
Where’s MSM ..where’s the outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Christians in Lebanon
Israel wipes out the entire village of Mhaibib in South Lebanon, home to shrine of Prophet Benjamin.
The shrine, located atop a hill and featuring arched chambers, a historic courtyard, cemetery, and tomb, was over 2,100 years Old.
Where’s MSM ..where’s the outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Israel wipes out the entire village of Mhaibib in South Lebanon, home to shrine of Prophet Benjamin.
The shrine, located atop a hill and featuring arched chambers, a historic courtyard, cemetery, and tomb, was over 2,100 years Old.
Where’s MSM ..where’s the outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Presumably the Satanic cult's Minister for Propaganda loses a bit of her body enamel every time she comes into contact with the truth. Poor baby. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Comments by Karoline Leavitt follow allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Presumably the Satanic cult's Minister for Propaganda loses a bit of her body enamel every time she comes into contact with the truth. Poor baby. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
'Moral failure'? Starmer? Never! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cutting aid for disease fund would be moral failure, Labour MPs tell Starmer
UK expected to reduce contribution to Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 20%
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
'Moral failure'? Starmer? Never! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
'In the early days of the War in Donbas, he baked Easter cakes and painted Easter eggs, wrapped himself up in a homemade Ukrainian flag and...took them as gifts to the Russian separatist militia occupying his home town of Makiivka. ..He was severely beaten by the soldiers, but managed to get away.'
The doctor’s plot. Serhiy Petrik, a paediatrician from occupied Donbas, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for ‘espionage’ — Novaya Gazeta Europe
In early October, a court was convened in occupied eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region to consider the case of Serhiy Petrik, a neonatal doctor from nearby Makiivka, which was occupied by Russia in the W...
novayagazeta.eu
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
'In the early days of the War in Donbas, he baked Easter cakes and painted Easter eggs, wrapped himself up in a homemade Ukrainian flag and...took them as gifts to the Russian separatist militia occupying his home town of Makiivka. ..He was severely beaten by the soldiers, but managed to get away.'
Not sure if there are many fans of @theartsdesk.bsky.social on here, but hold on to your seats if you find broken links etc. The site is being moved on to a new platform this weekend, and while we were told about it, you weren't. Normal service should be resumed on Monday.
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Not sure if there are many fans of @theartsdesk.bsky.social on here, but hold on to your seats if you find broken links etc. The site is being moved on to a new platform this weekend, and while we were told about it, you weren't. Normal service should be resumed on Monday.
It's weird, I saw an article which popped up in my unwanted main page feed which mentioned all the cancellations in Europe, but didn't once mention the American situation as the cause. Can they all bill Mikey? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Passengers face global disruption as flights cut amid US government shutdown
Travellers forced to adjust their plans as longest shutdown on record continues with no sign of a resolution
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It's weird, I saw an article which popped up in my unwanted main page feed which mentioned all the cancellations in Europe, but didn't once mention the American situation as the cause. Can they all bill Mikey? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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THE MAKROPULOS CASE @theroyalopera.bsky.social - Adding pointless feminist complications, #KatieMitchell sucks the strangeness from #Janáček’s clash of legalese and eternal life - review @davidnice.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/opera/makrop...
The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera - pointless feminist complications
Janáček described his nature-versus-humanity fable The Cunning Little Vixen as “a merry thing with a sad end”. In which case, the even stranger Makropulos Case is a chattery legal mystery with a trans...
theartsdesk.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
THE MAKROPULOS CASE @theroyalopera.bsky.social - Adding pointless feminist complications, #KatieMitchell sucks the strangeness from #Janáček’s clash of legalese and eternal life - review @davidnice.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/opera/makrop...