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At the weekend, two consecutive nights at Deutsche Oper Berlin, both nearly sold out. Only two other masks seen each night.

In a hospital yesterday, I was going to make a comment about "sanitiser theatre", but then the woman turned around and she was wearing a mask. The only person, apart from me, I encountered there wearing one.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Farage has a keen understanding of political publicity. So when he portrayed himself in a classic Mussolini pose and his Brexit Party rally as an echo of Mosley's gathering of 30,000 fascists at Earl's Court in July 1939 he knew exactly what he was doing. He was proclaiming his fascism.

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn:

"I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...."

Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

They Tried To Kill Him With A Bullet To The Heart Luckily it was a happy ending

Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social They Tried To Kill Him With A Bullet To The Heart niallharbison.substack.com/p/they-tried...

Freedom is just another word for “a gap in the law” 7th October 2025 * The Home Secretary wants to ban more things * There are many ways in which freedom can be expressed. For example, the eminent jurist Janis Joplin averred that freedom is just ano…

David Allen Green @davidallengreen.bsky.social Freedom is just another word for “a gap in the law” davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

The BBC's Institutional Anti-Left Bias The BBC's decision to scrap a planned Zack Polanski interview on the channel's flagship Laura Kuenssberg show has caused fury within the Green Party

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social The BBC's Institutional Anti-Left Bias. The BBC's decision to scrap a planned Zack Polanski interview on the channel's flagship Laura Kuenssberg show has caused fury within the Green Party. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-i...

Don't the Tories have anyone else?

Israeli wife, even.

Those young people are the grandads of 2050.

So which made-up alphabet generation will be the right-wing grandads in 2050?

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Tannhäuser @deutscheoperberlin.bsky.social 5 October 2025

Except in degree and detail, no different from deploying National Guard troops to US cities from other states. Labour's emerging approach is ICE-lite. Lite, so far. And Tories and Reform would be worse. Trump is the model, including for Labour.

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

Grenzkontrollen in Bayern: Unterwegs mir der Bundespolizei Seit Mai kontrolliert die Bundespolizei an der Grenze zu Österreich jeden Zug, der nach Bayern rollt. Nicht immer gelingen dabei große Erfolge. Aber dass die Nationengrenze nun wieder erlebbar ist, sp...

German newspaper FAZ has an article about the Bundespolizei controlling trains at Freilassing

It’s done in this cheery way, almost propaganda like. Oh the intellectual policeman! Oh the tourists they need to check. One little line on someone being annoyed

#Schengen

www.faz.net/aktuell/reis...

Hello from across town.

Tannhäuser @deutscheoperberlin.bsky.social 5 October 2025

Who rates her at all?

This is beautiful 🦉 ⛑️

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"And yet, it all felt like a jumble of ideas thrown together, without a coherent thread. Indeed, I’m still wondering why Marguerite opened act 4 inserted into a giant top hat."

Lohengrin @deutscheoperberlin.bsky.social 4 October 2025

It's great how the operetta characters in translation sound like they're straight out of Carry On or Up Pompeii.

Thank you. My husband @frescoleraye.bsky.social shares the first line of your bio. In his youth, he haunted most of those theatres and others. His father occasionally worked backstage, at the Pavilion, I think. That was before he delivered milk to John's Aunty Mimi.

Thank you to the Conservative party for sending me this list of things I might like to attend at the conference they've banned me from attending

Lohengrin @deutscheoperberlin.bsky.social 4 October 2025

I really liked your 1952 cast list yesterday, including others in the company, on stage, back stage, and sometimes both. What theatre did the Liverpool Rep use? Has it survived under another name?