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Watching the new Dux DVD of Weinberg’s “The Passenger”. Am struck by the comment of Krzysztof Olendski, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Inst.: “‘The Passenger’ is a shocking work. It is a guardian of memory, which should be cultivated by all.” Now more than ever.

@CountBinface Vote Binface!

It’s on.

@MsPocketRocket Six

“I am not a number!” But he was, what was it? 🤔

@MarkValencia @7why__ydm 🤣 I will pass that next year…

@LSHMWAH @7why__ydm Lightweight. I did 35.

Trying to prove a point: Has anyone else ever stayed at a job for more than 10 years?

@HenryRileyA6 @bencobley @rbo_org That would be a shame as there is much about it - the singing by Allan Clayton and Bryn Terkel, not least - that is very fine.

@bencobley @rbo_org Thanks for the heads up. I'll be giving that a miss.

To the Opera for the first time in many, many years last night: Deborah Warner's staging of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes at the @rbo_org. I absolutely loved it, was transfixed, the whole thing brilliant - just until right near the end when a scene transforms the fishing village's inhabitants into a mob of nationalist bovver boys wearing khaki trousers, crew cuts, football shirts (West Ham prominent) and waving Union Jacks and Cross of St Georges. I don't recall a single mention of England or Britain in the opera itself, let alone an attack on nations or the working class as emerged in this scene. I experienced the rest of the opera as a great tragedy. But they have to go and spoil it by clunkily crow-barring their standardised, virtue-signalling politics into it. These people just can't help themselves. Still: overall, very good. At least now I understand Britten's genius.

@SarahJPriestley @bencobley @rbo_org Yes, ENO pitched the ‘mob scene’ far better, and far more menacingly, in their revival in 2023.

@bencobley @rbo_org Totally agree. The mob is brutal on a human level: no need for political specificity

@I_amMukhtar @reformexposed He’s a real charmer, isn’t he?

More stuff is coming out from Reform’s candidate for the Makerfield by-election, Robert Kenyon. He claimed that women have abortions for “vanity purposes” and use them as a “secondary form of contraception”. He also said some women rely on abortions so they can “shag anyone they want”.

@TheRealJamieKay A

A or B?

@wmarybeard @WolfsonHistory The Roman Empire would be my choice…

@WolfsonHistory Does Ancient not count????

Which era of European history fascinates you most?

@m4tthall @TrevorPTweets @PulaRJS It’s a question of balance. The balance is skewed to the Far Right, so your proposal falls at the first hurdle since the mainstream media favour the fascists.

@LSHMWAH @TrevorPTweets @PulaRJS How about the opposite. Continue to allow parties to discuss how they propose to "improve" the country. Leave people to determine whether they represent them or not 🤷

Reform is proposing the deportation of 2 million people - including people legally here. "Politically it feels quite clever doesn't it," says Trevor Phillips, and leads a discussion that revolves entirely around whether it is affordable and practical. These are people who sweep our streets, look after disabled people, keep the care sector functioning. People who work incredibly hard and are invariably very badly paid. People who have families, lives, hopes, dreams. Without whom the economy simply wouldn't function. This country has arrived at an appalling place.

On This Day — May 25, 1948 They put a bullet in the back of his head. The man they executed that day was Witold Pilecki — the only person in history who voluntarily walked into Auschwitz. In 1940, this Polish cavalry officer deliberately got himself arrested during a Nazi roundup in Warsaw. Using a false identity, he entered hell as prisoner #4859. For two and a half years, Pilecki lived as a starving skeleton in striped rags while secretly building a resistance network inside the camp. He smuggled out the first detailed eyewitness reports of the Nazi death machine to the Allies — gas chambers, selections, medical experiments, and the systematic murder of Jews. While he was there, more than 1,000 Jews per day were being gassed and burned. At its peak in 1944, the killing rate reached more than 6,000 per day. He saw it all. He documented it all. He risked everything so the world would know. In April 1943, Pilecki escaped by overpowering a guard at a bakery outside the wire. He rejoined the fight, battled in the Warsaw Uprising, and later resisted the Soviet occupation of Poland. For his courage, the communist regime tortured him, staged a show trial, and executed him on May 25, 1948. One of the great heroes of the 20th century. Remember his name: Witold Pilecki.

🚨@Nigel_Farage and @reformparty_uk have demanded Elon Musk have this video taken down and everyone who posts it banned!

@PaddyBriggs Agree!

Peter Grimes at ROH gripping. Bryn in good voice.

Reform don't want this video of Farage rinsing Jenrick shared, so whatever you do please don't retweet it...

@Tush27J 🤣

Well it's all kicking off on the right. Christopher Harborne is suing Ben Habib for defamation. Nigel Farage is begging Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain to withdraw from the Makerfield by-election. Farage and Elon Musk are handbags at dawn. .....absolutely delicious.

@Bbmorg The globe is warming?

What does this graph indicate?

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@m_jones_1797 @dommedebbiexx @Addyspectre1 @Rachelle_Hulme Perhaps you just need more practice! 😶🤭

@dommedebbiexx @Addyspectre1 @Rachelle_Hulme I’m just not very good with cocks, I usually just run away.

It’s been a fabulous day with @dommedebbiexx down on Beaver Bush Farm, have a fabulous evening, and join us gain tomorrow.

Just when I thought couldn’t love RVW more…!

@oelma__ 👏

GUYS! I got a job. Been unemployed since July. I start tomorrow. Please clap