Peter Joelson

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Ancient BSc, retired teacher, musician, currently in West Sussex, #FBPE #RejoinEU #MECFS

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The San Francisco Symphony is hell bent on running its artistic operations into the ground

... reminds me of someone

"Keir Starmer understood the critical rule of opposition, which is to promise change. This is what every opposition does in general elections." Michael Heseltine in the Independent archive.ph/IsjG5#select...

Chris Riddell in the Observer today

"Labour have shown their resolve to get on with the hard graft of rebuilding Britain - but the scale of Tory destruction stands in their way" ***We'll need time and patience.*** www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'We've had 14 years of despair - it's time for Labour to rebuild our nation'www.mirror.co.uk With new Prime Minister Keir Starmer's speedy appointment of a new cabinet, Labour have shown their resolve to get on with the hard graft of rebuilding Britain - but the scale of Tory destruction stan...

LATEST NEWS! fffarage even older than he looks www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Huge creature with toilet seat-shaped head was top predator before the dinosaurswww.independent.co.uk The creature had huge fangs and a skull over 2ft long

Dave Brown in the Independent

Guy Braunstein plays his Abbey Road Concerto, VW's The Lark Ascending, and Delius's Violin Concerto. What a superb violinist!

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We don’t have time to deal with safeguarding ‘carefully’ and ‘correctly’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-staff-te...

DWP staff tell MPs after years of deaths: We don’t have time to deal with safeguarding ‘carefully’ and ‘correctly’www.disabilitynewsservice.com Two-thirds of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff still do not have enough time to deal with safeguarding concerns “carefully” and “correctly”, despite years of deaths of benefit claimants…

Out next month - here's "But hark! upon my sense" open.spotify.com/album/5sRJkJ...

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, Pt 2: But hark! upon my senseopen.spotify.com Edward Elgar · Single · 2024 · 1 songs.

#classicalmusic #comingsoon

Out next month - here's "But hark! upon my sense" open.spotify.com/album/5sRJkJ...

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, Pt 2: But hark! upon my senseopen.spotify.com Edward Elgar · Single · 2024 · 1 songs.

Writing school reports for decades, I started many a second or third sentence with "However, ", and must have used tens of thousands of Oxford commas. Furthermore, a "However, " sentence was sometimes backed up with a "Furthermore, " one.

"Nigel Farage claims he 'won't go to church anymore' because it has 'surrendered' to the woke agenda" [Gbeebies] Last time I looked, Jesus seemed very woke.

🤔🤣🤣🤣 www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/let...

Let's forget about all those 'Vote Leave' signs in fields, eh? By a farmerwww.thedailymash.co.uk WE farmers are left with no choice but to protest at cheap, low-quality imports threatening our livelihoods. We’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve it, except that thing in 2016.

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This is what 30 million tonnes of ice looks like. This is how much ice is melting in Greenland every single hour.

So sehen die 30 Millionen Tonnen Eis aus, die Grönland jede Stunde verliert

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Kate Middleton is being treated for cancer, the Palace says. It was discovered while she had her abdominal surgery - which the Palace said at the time wasn’t to do with cancer. This is the Royal Statement that had been expected this week.

Princess of Wales receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancerwww.theguardian.com Catherine says in recorded statement her condition was discovered after she had abdominal surgery in January

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#NewReleases2024 #73 Janáček: Katya Kabanova Amanda Majeski (Katya), Katarina Dalayman (Kabanicha) etc., London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle Cast and players all on top form in a composer who brings out the best in Rattle. Shattering stuff 🤍❤️🖤

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#NewReleases2024 #75 Path To the Moon Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano) Pitch-perfect programming and playing. I loved this to the moon and back 🖤🤍❤️

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#NewReleases2024 #77 Smetana: Má Vlast Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov Superbly played and recorded, but I'll stick with Talich (1939), Kubelik (1990) or Luks (2022) when I want my spine tingled.

#classicalmusic #comingsoon

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“What’s the point of Starmer’s Labour if it won’t stand up for poor, sick or disabled people? | Frances Ryan” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/keir-starmer-labour-poor-sick-disabled-tory