Richard Baker

A spoof of a Lawyer’s commercial. A man in a suit looking like a lawyer is saying, “Have you accompanied a Hindemith brass sonata? You may be entitled to compensation.”

I really like Hindemith, but I still find this funny.

Love it! The Oboe Sonata piano part is fiendish, but it’s a great piece.

Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Interesting. It was a new one for me

Bryn Terfel to reprise role as tormented Tsar, Boris Godunov Stephen Price Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel is set to reprise his role as the tormented Boris Godunov in an ‘extraordinary’ production at the Royal Opera House, London, from January 2026. The acclaim...

Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel is set to reprise his role as the tormented Boris Godunov in an 'extraordinary' production at the Royal Opera House, London, from January 2026

I wonder if this is the same impulse that the had the ROH audience booing the singer singing Monostatos at curtain call last month, like some pantomime villain. Maybe MF is the ultimate ‘posh panto’, but even so…

I find this one of the most genuinely affecting moments in the whole repertoire. The music makes it perfectly clear that he is sincere (at least in that moment). I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.

Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

if you're struggling with the November gloom, you may enjoy this little graph. To live as far away from the equator as the UK is a decision that most of the world have decided, quite sensibly, not to make. Also note there's barely any land available at the equivalent latitude in the south.

When asylum seekers are demonised I feel the need to point out that people like me are the children of asylum seekers (in my case my father came to England on the Kindertransport and my mother’s family fled pograms in Poland and Ukraine). Go home when safe? Hmmmmmmm….

Storm Claudia latest: Major incident declared due to severe flooding A major incident has been declared in South Wales due to "severe and widespread" flooding in Monmouth. Follow the latest.

Storm Claudia latest: Major incident declared in Monmouth due to severe flooding | UK News | Sky News

I grew up in Monmouth and retain a strong respect for floods - hoping all my friends there are okay

news.sky.com/story/storm-...

Florence Pugh wearing an olive green dress with brown hair.

Pews of the same color.

florence pew: thread

Boudica: The Woman Who Defied an Empire pt 1 Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 13/11/2025 · 30m

At Instant Classics we've got a cracking two-part mini series on Boudica, rebel queen....in the first episode, how did the rebellion start? how far had Britain been 'conquered' anyway? can we only see her through Roman eyes? tinyurl.com/mrtfbfn7

Hah! Couldn’t possibly

Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.

And just like that, they stopped caring about emails.

*Laughs in Black Country* @sathnam.bsky.social

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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

To be honest I think “I’m going to give a press conference to tell the whole nation over their breakfasts about the absolute need for something big on tax, then just drop the idea 10 days later” may actually be more stupid than anything Truss and Kwarteng did.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Edward T. Cone:

Absolutely. Still underrated and misunderstood.

The birth of the author

Reform UK's entire representation in the Senedd faces suspension.

Cover reveal

Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic

You: Tell me more 😏

Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.