Steve Thomas
@stevecacophony.bsky.social
Happy unschooling dad of 2, husband of 1. Podcast bringing you great (classical) music http://cacophonyonline.com and Women's World Cup of classical music. works at City of London Sinfonia. Plays horn (not with them though).
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
After a mere 17 years, delighted to be playing again with Brent Symphony Orchestra. playing right-back tonight in Mahler 1. much fun to be had! With Lev Parikian Jay Sewell Chris Marquardt and about 80 others @levparikian.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
After a mere 17 years, delighted to be playing again with Brent Symphony Orchestra. playing right-back tonight in Mahler 1. much fun to be had! With Lev Parikian Jay Sewell Chris Marquardt and about 80 others @levparikian.bsky.social
Today's entertainment!
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today's entertainment!
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NEW: Keir Starmer's Sharm el-Sheikh Diary
"hostages swapped like Panini football stickers, 20 Israelis for 1700 Palestinian detainees. Not entirely sure what the difference is, but I’m sure someone on TalkTV would be happy to shout it at me."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
"hostages swapped like Panini football stickers, 20 Israelis for 1700 Palestinian detainees. Not entirely sure what the difference is, but I’m sure someone on TalkTV would be happy to shout it at me."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Keir Starmer's Summit of Peace Diary
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – Suite of Eternal Optimism, Four Seasons Total Landscaping Resort
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October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
NEW: Keir Starmer's Sharm el-Sheikh Diary
"hostages swapped like Panini football stickers, 20 Israelis for 1700 Palestinian detainees. Not entirely sure what the difference is, but I’m sure someone on TalkTV would be happy to shout it at me."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
"hostages swapped like Panini football stickers, 20 Israelis for 1700 Palestinian detainees. Not entirely sure what the difference is, but I’m sure someone on TalkTV would be happy to shout it at me."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
This was ace. Powerful and important storytelling and amazing talent on display!
Young people have put the show together in 10 days! Remarkable.
Saw with @liamzud.bsky.social @dylanmlaw.bsky.social & Sally
Tickets here 👇
www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/adp-2...
Saw with @liamzud.bsky.social @dylanmlaw.bsky.social & Sally
Tickets here 👇
www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/adp-2...
The Kindling | Hackney Empire
I was warning.I was signal.I was storm before the silence.
Joy was the centre of the community. Joy saw something beyond everyone else. Joy wanted the trut
www.hackneyempire.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This was ace. Powerful and important storytelling and amazing talent on display!
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Young people have put the show together in 10 days! Remarkable.
Saw with @liamzud.bsky.social @dylanmlaw.bsky.social & Sally
Tickets here 👇
www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/adp-2...
Saw with @liamzud.bsky.social @dylanmlaw.bsky.social & Sally
Tickets here 👇
www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/adp-2...
The Kindling | Hackney Empire
I was warning.I was signal.I was storm before the silence.
Joy was the centre of the community. Joy saw something beyond everyone else. Joy wanted the trut
www.hackneyempire.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Young people have put the show together in 10 days! Remarkable.
Saw with @liamzud.bsky.social @dylanmlaw.bsky.social & Sally
Tickets here 👇
www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/adp-2...
Saw with @liamzud.bsky.social @dylanmlaw.bsky.social & Sally
Tickets here 👇
www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/adp-2...
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Imagine going into journalism to argue that not enough civilians have been killed in a war crime.
July 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Imagine going into journalism to argue that not enough civilians have been killed in a war crime.
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Wow. Just wow. Labour laws incapable of defending civil liberties.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wow. Just wow. Labour laws incapable of defending civil liberties.
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Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.
June 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.
If the UK did only some of the things former UK diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social suggests then things in Gaza / Palestine would get a bit better. It's nuts that we're not doing these things, but instead talking about Glastonbury and making protest=terrorism
Rant alert. Mega rant alert. How about our leaders stop wringing hands, issuing feeble denunciations, and actually DO something? Stop the moral equivalency. Stop pretending we’re helpless. There’s plenty we could do if genuinely committed. Here’s some suggestions for starters. 🧵
"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If the UK did only some of the things former UK diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social suggests then things in Gaza / Palestine would get a bit better. It's nuts that we're not doing these things, but instead talking about Glastonbury and making protest=terrorism
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A Palestine Action protester in Newcastle - someone with the courage and insight and militant decency to risk their freedom by putting their body on the gears of an ongoing atrocity - wrote this, and it's class: summerjasmin.substack.com/p/in-defence...
June 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A Palestine Action protester in Newcastle - someone with the courage and insight and militant decency to risk their freedom by putting their body on the gears of an ongoing atrocity - wrote this, and it's class: summerjasmin.substack.com/p/in-defence...
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Top tips for after-show comments, for those awkward occasions when you loathed the show in question (from Piano Notes by Charles Rosen):
June 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Top tips for after-show comments, for those awkward occasions when you loathed the show in question (from Piano Notes by Charles Rosen):
Excellent points...
My letter in today's Times, calling for a #PublicHealth response to the crisis in #MentalHealth, rather than a punitive kneejerk reaction playing into the Culture Wars
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
May 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Excellent points...
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One of the things that enrages me about Labour’s approach is the reality that immigration hysteria is *entirely manufactured*
Farage has used it to flog every con and it’s been in the tabloids, daily, for ten years. To the point that now even some Labour voters defend it.
It’s fucking MADE UP.
Farage has used it to flog every con and it’s been in the tabloids, daily, for ten years. To the point that now even some Labour voters defend it.
It’s fucking MADE UP.
May 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
One of the things that enrages me about Labour’s approach is the reality that immigration hysteria is *entirely manufactured*
Farage has used it to flog every con and it’s been in the tabloids, daily, for ten years. To the point that now even some Labour voters defend it.
It’s fucking MADE UP.
Farage has used it to flog every con and it’s been in the tabloids, daily, for ten years. To the point that now even some Labour voters defend it.
It’s fucking MADE UP.
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Pre-Brexit, I described to an elderly lady/supporter from Cornwall how much I love the UK & truly felt at home there, expecting her to be pleased about the praise. Instead, she said (somewhat coolly) that she's no problem with that provided I leave when told to. I though of that when I read this.
May 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Pre-Brexit, I described to an elderly lady/supporter from Cornwall how much I love the UK & truly felt at home there, expecting her to be pleased about the praise. Instead, she said (somewhat coolly) that she's no problem with that provided I leave when told to. I though of that when I read this.
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I think I'm a pretty ordinary person and I find Starmer's words very offensive. My electrician son's very close friend is a Filipino nurse, my nephew's girlfriend is Vietnamese, my great nephew is half Jamaican. My daughter lives in Hackney and seems to have friends from all over, no strangers here.
May 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I think I'm a pretty ordinary person and I find Starmer's words very offensive. My electrician son's very close friend is a Filipino nurse, my nephew's girlfriend is Vietnamese, my great nephew is half Jamaican. My daughter lives in Hackney and seems to have friends from all over, no strangers here.
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Less than a year after the country saw racist riots, I'm deeply concerned to see the PM following Reform's agenda.
We all want to live in united communities but that requires investment.
And won't be helped by divisive rhetoric.
We all want to live in united communities but that requires investment.
And won't be helped by divisive rhetoric.
May 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Less than a year after the country saw racist riots, I'm deeply concerned to see the PM following Reform's agenda.
We all want to live in united communities but that requires investment.
And won't be helped by divisive rhetoric.
We all want to live in united communities but that requires investment.
And won't be helped by divisive rhetoric.
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Starmer said that the U.K. had been a “lab” for an “experiment” in mass immigration, a lab he was closing. So, he argues, we were guinea pigs; ‘others’ were experimenting on us. These words came out of his mouth - and he has a brain - so unless a fool, he understood their implication.
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Starmer said that the U.K. had been a “lab” for an “experiment” in mass immigration, a lab he was closing. So, he argues, we were guinea pigs; ‘others’ were experimenting on us. These words came out of his mouth - and he has a brain - so unless a fool, he understood their implication.
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The thing is, for those of us with a stake in this, it’s unconscionable. I’m not an immigrant - but I’m married to an immigrant and have a number of immigrants in the family. To effectively accuse them all of doing incalculable damage to the U.K. hits home.
May 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The thing is, for those of us with a stake in this, it’s unconscionable. I’m not an immigrant - but I’m married to an immigrant and have a number of immigrants in the family. To effectively accuse them all of doing incalculable damage to the U.K. hits home.
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This👇
If Labour think I’m going to be blackmailed into voting for them to “see off Farage” in 2029, after they’ve spent 5 years wasting their huge majority & dancing to Farage’s racist tune & chickening out of doing anything meaningful that would actually halt the fascist creep…
They are so wrong.
If Labour think I’m going to be blackmailed into voting for them to “see off Farage” in 2029, after they’ve spent 5 years wasting their huge majority & dancing to Farage’s racist tune & chickening out of doing anything meaningful that would actually halt the fascist creep…
They are so wrong.
What upsets me the most it will people like my late Dad who will suffer the consequences of @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social populist anti migration policy of care workers. Dementia patients and those who are chronically ill. It will mean care homes will suffer with shortages. All to pander to Farage.
May 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This👇
If Labour think I’m going to be blackmailed into voting for them to “see off Farage” in 2029, after they’ve spent 5 years wasting their huge majority & dancing to Farage’s racist tune & chickening out of doing anything meaningful that would actually halt the fascist creep…
They are so wrong.
If Labour think I’m going to be blackmailed into voting for them to “see off Farage” in 2029, after they’ve spent 5 years wasting their huge majority & dancing to Farage’s racist tune & chickening out of doing anything meaningful that would actually halt the fascist creep…
They are so wrong.
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Still the overriding question remains unanswered. *Why* do we want to reduce net immigration?
May 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Still the overriding question remains unanswered. *Why* do we want to reduce net immigration?
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Ethnic cleansing, tacitly endorsed, and carried out with arms supplied by, the UK.
Utterly, utterly shameful.
Utterly, utterly shameful.
#BREAKING Israeli minister says 'Gaza will be entirely destroyed'
May 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Ethnic cleansing, tacitly endorsed, and carried out with arms supplied by, the UK.
Utterly, utterly shameful.
Utterly, utterly shameful.
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A terrific article...and call to action...
Extraordinary piece on Pope Francis's climate legacy by Argentine Ricky Lanusse, whose grandfather knew him from the barrio.
Remembering "the last global leader who understood that rising seas and rising inequality are the same story told in different languages."
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Remembering "the last global leader who understood that rising seas and rising inequality are the same story told in different languages."
medium.com/the-new-clim...
Pope Francis: The Most Radical Climate Leader On Earth Is Gone
A man who wasn’t just friends with my grandfather — he was friends with the sun
medium.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A terrific article...and call to action...
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Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
April 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!