Paul Sandles

Dogtanian and the Muskerhounds

Any US tourists might well find that the 'tourist price' has just gone up a bit more for them specifically.

The End of the Economic World as We Knew It Focusing on Trump's tariffs risks missing the bigger picture. The consequences of upending the global economic order on this scale will not be limited to trade

The End of the Economic World as We Knew It - Trump just blew up what was left of the world trading system. Other countries may, and indeed should, try to preserve what they can as a global public good, but the scale of the dispruption is so great that the more likely outcome is global chaos

Surely it is the legislature - Parliament in the UK case - that writes the rules that say who is (and, importantly, is not) eligible to run for elected office? The courts do not have that power and nor should they really. The consequences of a court finding someone guilty should be a policy question

I enjoyed the PS. Nicely put.

YouTube video by London Symphony Orchestra Arnold Bax: Tintagel // Sir Antonio Pappano & London Symphony Orchestra

youtu.be/yeCSU6wMLfw?... The LSO and Pappano did Tintagel and I loved it! Luscious string tone and brass with a real sense of the work's narrative line. Hope there's more Bax to come.

A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

A quietly heartbreaking piece of music.

Agreed. I thought the 1st mvt a little bit dissected at times, a bit fussy in its phrasing, but the rest was outstandingly good. I've not heard the finale done better

Can we ban them from coming back?

I thought Labour promised a policy of sustainable and fairly distributed economic growth and not just any old growth at any cost. If so, schools and employment rights fit right in. Maybe just me...

It is on a different level isn't it? Absolutely amazing work. Like a Bruckner for the 20th century, playing with time, motion and space and building form out of very little. Masterpiece!

That would be amazing, but I shall not get my hopes up too high! Odd that Bax just hasn't travelled well abroad. Perhaps everyone just thinks that only British orchestras know how to do it. Bax is an exception. It is hard to think of him as just a British composer. His view was much broader IMO

Just goes to show how tricky it is to get Bax right. He is quite demanding in that sense. If one element of a recording and the interpretation and the playing isn't right it really dents the impact of the work, maybe more than with other composers.

That's a great performance of it too. The best? Probably.

Streisand effect. The gift that keeps on giving....

Cover art for Naxos recording of Poulenc Organ Concerto and Concert Champetre

If I had to choose it would be the Organ Concerto and I'm partial to the massive, reverberant sound found on this Naxos recording. I love all the twists and turns of mood but the underlying seriousness stays with you

Record image of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra playing Haydn Symphonies 93 and 94. Painting of Haydn in older age as the image

Only one choice here, for me at least. The bassoon is wickedly graphic!

Serious question/request. Can we stop obsessing about Elon Musk on a platform made so we wouldn’t have to stay on his platform? We left. Can we just happily ignore him now? He loves the attention y’all are giving him. #ignoremusk

Screenshot of a job ad for the British Library. It is for a full time curator of Illuminated Manuscripts. The salary is £34,608 per annum.

My God this salary. I love the British Library, I really do. I worked in the Dept. of Medieval Manuscripts as a curatorial fellow & then as a research associate; I have spent hundreds of hours there as a researcher. And I get it, this is the going rate for such positions in the UK. But Jesus Christ.

Fussy organising of some old moribund tech and some light dusting

Mrs T

Light the lamp, not the rat!

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on

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I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer.
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Absolutely Stunning timelapse of Earth rising over the Moon captured by lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. 💫👏💫👏💫👏💫

📽: JAXA/NHK