Mark Lewis

Now at @markwaun.bsky.social hope you'll join me there.

When your conductor takes a roaming rehearsal video… Sleep by @EricWhitacre We loved rehearsing and performing in the beautiful All Saints’ Church, Putney on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came and supported us!

Yes Tim because it’s so much better in the papers … Telegraph : “Le Pen, the hard-Right figurehead” Mail : “France's hard-right leader” Sun: “The 56-year-old far-right politician” No description - far right, hard right, populist right, nationalist right - is ideal but don’t pretend this is about BBC bias. It’s lazy.

The founder and former boss of BrewDog, James Watt, has claimed that ‘work-life balance’ is a concept invented by people who hate their jobs, and that what they really need is ‘work-life integration’. READ MORE: vist.ly/3ms3cpe

If you would like to see this charlatan being taken apart by a proper interviewer you might enjoy his exchange with Kiwi Kim Hill on his recent Australasian book tour (cut short because of lack of sales or interest). rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

It’s Christmas concert day! Come and hear festive favourites and gold-medal competition pieces from our Spain tour tonight! 7pm, St Michael’s, Cornhill (Sat 14 Dec) Tickets £10/£8 ticketsource.co.uk/southern-spiri… or on the door from 6.30pm. 📷: @MarkWaun

My next book is called Truth. Here is @RichardDawkins from Unweaving the Rainbow on truth. If ever a scientist were to win a Nobel Prize for literature it should be Richard. "Purveyors of cultural relativism and the ‘higher superstition’ are apt to pour scorn on the search for truth. This partly stems from the conviction that truths are different in different cultures and partly from the inability of philosophers of science to agree about truth anyway. There are, of course, genuine philosophical difficulties. Is a truth just a so-far-unfalsified hypothesis? What status does truth have in the strange, uncertain world of quantum theory? Is anything ultimately true? On the other hand, no philosopher has any trouble using the language of truth when falsely accused of a crime, or when suspecting his wife of adultery. ‘Is it true?’ feels like a fair question, and few who ask it in their private lives would be satisfied with logic-chopping sophistry in response. Quantum thought experimenters may not know in what sense it is ‘true’ that Schrodinger’s cat is dead. But everybody knows what is true about the statement that my childhood cat Jane is dead. And there are lots of scientific truths where what we claim is only that they are true in the same everyday sense. If I tell you that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor, you may doubt the truth of my statement and search (in vain) for evidence that it is false. But we both know what it would mean for it to be true, and what it would mean for it to be false. It is in the same category as ‘Is it true that you were in Oxford on the night of the crime?’, not in the same difficult category as ‘Is it true that a quantum has position?’ Yes, there are philosophical difficulties about truth, but we can get a long way before we have to worry about them. Premature erection of alleged philosophical problems is sometimes a smokescreen for mischief."

#A487 Corris Uchaf-Minffordd🚧 Unstable ground has been identified above the A487. The road is closed in both directions while further investigations are being carried out. 📍 Diversion: bit.ly/4g8n2jc Please allow extra travel time. Further updates to follow.

El alcalde de Tresviso, Alan Ruiz Díaz, nos acompaña ya en el estudio de Onda Cero Santander para hablarnos de actualidad de un municipio que estos días se encuentra cubierto de nieve Así está el acceso al municipio estos días

⚠️ Update 11:29 09/12 ⚠️ Road remains closed in both directions until further notice. ⛔️ Further updates to follow. Please see diversion below. 👇 google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…

A Tour of Old College letterfromaberystwyth.co.uk/a-tour-of-old-… via @letterfromaber

@SarahLouise_146 Yes, on Waunfawr

Power went out in Aberystwyth about 15 minutes ago. #StormDarragh

Urgent Information: The National Library of Wales will be CLOSED on Saturday, 7 December. The Met Office has issued a red weather warning, with potential "danger to life". In order to ensure the safety of all staff and users, the Library building will be closed tomorrow.

Thank you @MarkIMardell for your contribution to the bbcr4sunday discussion on assisted dying. My thoughts entirely, but it's the first time I've heard them expressed publicly.

The Doge of Washington. Sci-fi, etymology and extropy - the myths that made Musk. My essay in the @FT this weekend ft.com/content/8cc39e…

We’re looking forward to our Christmas concert on Sat 14 December at 7pm in St Michael’s, Cornhill. Come and hear us sing gold medal winning pieces from our recent Spanish tour, plus festive favourites! Tickets available £10/£8 ticketsource.co.uk/southern-spiri…

Timothy Snyder "Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States.  How could you do so?  The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.  From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments -- Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard -- are perfect instruments.  They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done.  These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer. I do not defend the status quo. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Department of Defense and the Food and Drug Administration require reform.  But such a reform, of these or other agencies, would have to be guided by people with knowledge and experience, who cared about their country, and who had a vision of improvement.  That is simply not what is happening here.  We are confronted instead with a group of people who, were they to hold the positions they have been assigned, could bring an end to the United States of America."

A truly wonderful evening of music! ⭐   Thank you to everyone who joined us tonight in #Aberystwyth – we loved being back ❤️   Special thanks to conductor Martyn Brabbins, mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor, and our fabulous Orchestra – what a night! 🎶   See you tomorrow #Bangor!

Wonderful to see a busy Gregynog Gallery for the opening of 'Dim Celf Gymreig / No Welsh Art' #NoWelshArt

Highly recommended this weekend