Also becoming clear that i) 90% of comments on insta posts are either ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ or 😍😍😍😍😍 or “what’s this called” even though the details are in the caption, and ii) many posters have an unbelievably limited knowledge of music from the past 1000 years.

Tim, best wishes for the new projects, have valued your insights on live and recorded music for so many years. Hope the relief from the pressure of concert review short deadlines lets your writing flourish in other ways.

Already annoyed at Insta’s lack of effective moderation: several accounts reported for severe racism, homophobia, and threats of violence. No action taken by Meta.

Indeed! Just posted the guidance shown on the BL website further up this chain.

This is the guidance on the BL website today:

Possibly the case under the last government, as publicity would have drawn attention to ministers’ failure to prevent them, while at the same time they were receiving substantial monetary donations from the same countries where the hacks originated.

Yet in the UK alone, over 200,000 research papers are published annually as well as many books based on that research. Some areas of study have been transformed extensively in the past twenty years by the growth of digital resources.

Exactly, it’s almost entirely inclusive.

My understanding is that DCMS sponsors the BL, and with 14 Culture Secretaries since 2010 maybe there’s a reason they failed to provide correct oversight to the IT operations and projects at a major organisation in their care?

Almost did a lucky dip for myself to chose which to attend - but it also felt like a short-straw contest with four short straws.

Time flies: first studied the Faust story nearly (gulp) half a century ago, when I was very young. The legacy of the 1587 first version is extensive, though it must have been overtaken by Dracula now as the tale with the most adaptations and variations. Anyway. The puppeteers of Handspring are fab.