Jeremy Benson
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Jeremy Benson
@jembenson.bsky.social
Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC 🦊, England⚽️🏏, walks, photos, words (no politics); husband, father, generally curious

https://substack.com/@jembenson
📍 Leicestershire, UK
Some day she’ll be ready…
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Read two books at once, one with each eye.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It’s one of the things that makes football so compelling: however good your team is, there’s still jeopardy from bad luck or a bad run of form, and however bad they are you still think you’ve got a chance in any particular game, or that things could turn and they suddenly start playing well.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Pantograph Crank had a small, devoted following in the 1980s and 90s, but realistically they were never going to play the main stage at Glastonbury.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Presumably they join in when he gets to the chorus?
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Goodness - he was only fifty.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I thought the saying was ‘full flow’? Or is ‘full throw’ something different?
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
When I’m playing Quordle I can’t decide between Lairs and Liars as my opening word, so some data on that would be useful… 🤣
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It’s extraordinary. I was lucky enough to play in a performance of it when I was a student. I saw Rostropovich conduct it at the Royal Albert Hall in the 1990s, and was at the 50th anniversary performance in Coventry cathedral in 2012.
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You take it way more seriously than me… But nice to know that my assumption (guess) was right.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Also the Agnus Dei is heartbreaking.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As did Byrd.
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
As was Rachmaninov.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Those stones look to have been trying for a while to work out how to squeeze through.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM