What a crap headline. Should read: “Cathedral bass sacked after protesting over job losses in song form.” This makes it sound like he did the Monty Python Penis Song at Matins…
05.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
When the Great Pyramid was constructed, there were still living herds of wooly mammoths.
05.12.2025 18:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Tyrannosaurus Rex, the dinosaur, lived closer in time to T Rex, the band, than it did to Stegosaurus, the dinosaur.
05.12.2025 17:33 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Look, I do cats; I can’t be doing jokes too…
05.12.2025 17:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
But still doesn’t beat the fact that Cleopatra is closer to us in time than she was to the building of the Great Pyramid.
05.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 74 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 0
It is alleged that Nigel Farage aged 16-18 (1980-82) vocally objected to the number of Patels at Dulwich College.
A fellow pupil remembers him burning the booklet on these grounds.
The Guardian shows that this witness testimony aligns with the names + stats in the 1980 yearbook
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this story isn’t going away
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Just over two years after my slightly ill-advised dare with the youth; my hair is finally essentially back to its natural colour…
04.12.2025 11:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes agreed (it was specifically Bishops in the 2nd/3rd Century). Wish I could remember the book!
04.12.2025 10:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
BBC Radio 3
Essential Classics
Now Playing
Avril Coleridge-Taylor, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & John Andrews
Sussex Landscape: I. Largo
04.12.2025 10:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Now just waiting for the moment that the logical step for a rejoiner is to vote Conservative....
04.12.2025 10:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Not sure who it was now (to my shame) but one of the scholarly accounts of Druidery points out the strong prevalence of Celtic names in the early church hierarchy, suggesting that the old intellectual and spiritual leaders merged quite quickly into the new faith.
04.12.2025 10:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Last night's rainbow moon
04.12.2025 10:28 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Ooh - the Christmas list just got longer.
04.12.2025 08:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The party upstairs just got wilder. RIP Steve ‘The Colonel’ Cropper.
03.12.2025 23:04 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Planning to come!
03.12.2025 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tom Stoppard’s first language wasn’t English…ffs
03.12.2025 19:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This job opportunity closes next week ⬇️
03.12.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
No - this is explicitly excluded.
03.12.2025 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Moon over Tower Hamlets…
03.12.2025 15:49 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
“But there’s no market for women composers…”
Let’s retire this tired idea please.
**NEW POST**
This week on women composers and "marketability", and why the idea that there's no market for women composers is nonsense. If somebody says this, what they actually mean is THEY don't know enough about the music to know how to market it.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/but-theres...
02.12.2025 21:17 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
For those of you who celebrate, I shall be at the musical helm of MIKADO and two concerts in Buxton this summer.
03.12.2025 10:27 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cannot understand why any sane person (of any political persuasion) would now run for political office knowing how your childhood and personal life will be raked over…
02.12.2025 22:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Wonderful to hear Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s music.
Prompted me to look into her mother Jessie Walmisley. Also super musical she studied at the RAM (where she met Avril’s father, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor).
Very interested to see that Jessie was at school with pupils of Afro-Caribbean heritage.
1/2
02.12.2025 14:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“But there’s no market for women composers…”
Let’s retire this tired idea please.
Highly recommend former FLA guest @leahbroad.bsky.social's blog posts. This one's about composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-98), and an excellent new disc of recordings, notably her piano concerto. Lots of links to music, essays and broadcasts.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/but-theres...
01.12.2025 22:16 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A group of primary school age children look in front of them and are singing. They are wearing green t shirts with the London Youth Choirs logo on them.
Upper left hand corner: 2-9 December 2025
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Our #ChristmasChallenge is NOW LIVE 🥳
This week, please consider a donation to London Youth Choirs to help us achieve our citywide vision for all young singers 🙏
Head to the link below to donate today
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02.12.2025 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Not that cover the whole city…
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Malfeasance.
02.12.2025 10:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
AND the Featured New Release by the good people at WMFT in Chicago:
“as the album reveals, she had a distinctive, eloquent, and assured musical voice.”
02.12.2025 10:16 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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