@ulsterorchestra.bsky.social
#coleridgetaylor #mozart (piano no.27) #mendelssohn (symphony no.3; Scottish).
Wonderful music making

Guitar virtuoso #ryleywalker at #bangorcourthouse last evening.
Brilliant start to my 2025 gigs!
@stevenc63.bsky.social #openhousefestival

Would be nice to see some UK politicians speaking up in support of Canada, which is blameless in this and with which Britain has far closer ties than it does with the US.

Nobody hold their breath.

www.ft.com/content/b910...

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.

Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.

Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

Misty water droplets on a spider's web
#monochrome #blackandwhitephotography

Misty morning in South Belfast #malonepark #weather @bbcweather.bsky.social

Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.

This, incidentally, is how to beat Farage: on his policies. He loves talking immigration. As soon as he has to talk about anything else, he's buggered.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer.
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mini murdoch

two states..

Ian Clifford Stamp makes £500k/month by selling made-up "sovereign citizen" get rich quick schemes to vulnerable people.

Stamp doesn't like people pointing that out this is all pretend- so he's pretending to sue me for $1.5m.

Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social

I loathe a political culture that removes a passionate and effective minister over a decade-old minor offence that has zero bearing on her ability to do the job. A mixture of cowardice, malice and triviality.

Really sad to see the BBC losing Mishal Hussain, who was my favourite thing about the Today programme of late

Winter has well and truly arrived in Belfast. Heavy snow showers over City Hall and a more tranquil scene on the Belfast Hills #snow #winter

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Hello, Richard Coles here looking for the coolness of a mountain stream now the other place has become a cesspit.