Rupert Christiansen @Rupechri
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After seeing WNO's superb Death in Venice last night, played to a sold out and hugely enthusiastic Bristol Hippodrome, I feel more LIVID than ever at ACE and ACW's crass and vindictive cuts to the company's budget. Nothing short of vandalism
I'm all for the BBC Proms programming a broad church of good music, but I do think an evening devoted to 70s disco is pushing it a bit
Let's not go through this agony again. Time to take Russian frozen assets and use them to rebuild Ukraine: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
I don't need everyone speaking old-school RP and I like regional accents, but please, Radio 3 announcers, no glottal stops, -ing not -in, & vowels should be pronounced clearly and distinctly (FrEYEday not FrAAARday).
Lettuce isn't elite - elite is radicchio, chicory and endive
anyone else feel that Ripley falls off a bit in the final episode?
Pullman nails it ...
Re the pretty flawless Ripley: surely Tom's Italian far too fluent for someone who has only been studying the language through a phrase book for a few months?
The Tavistock trans scandal is as shameful a failure of institutional, media and civic oversight as the Post Office injustice. Latest episode of @The2Matts from @TheNewEuropean
There are 177 billionaires worth £653bn operating in the UK. 122 pay £0 tax because they aren't even registered in the UK at all, most of the other 55 while pay £0 as well, none will pay more than 20%. If we taxed them all at 45% like everyone else, it would raise £43bn a year.
l've benefited from it myself and even done it for others, but this business of friends puffing books before they're published is getting out of hand. Stand for disinterested criticism!
Name me if you can a wittier versifiying satirist than Tom Lehrer (possibly W S Gilbert?)
It's the commitment by @CountBinface to point 20 which marks him out as a serious politician. He just keeps plugging away at that bloody hand dryer. Also v keen on points 1, 7, 12, 14, 17 and 23. Other candidates are invited to nick these policies.
It's the commitment by @CountBinface to point 20 which marks him out as a serious politician. He just keeps plugging away at that bloody hand dryer. Also v keen on points 1, 7, 12, 14, 17 and 23. Other candidates are invited to nick these policies.
Republicans after getting the covid vaccine x.com/mashedavocado_…
Am LOVING Ripley. Forget about the film, this is something different. Super slow, fab acting, excellent script, 50s Italy in b+w yum
Is Alicia Kearns the last Tory standing with a sane moral compass ?
ps re WNO Death in Venice nb sold out in Bristol, but ...
ps re WNO Death in Venice nb sold out in Bristol, but ...
WNO's Death in Venice totally sold out on tour. What should this tell the ACE?
Possibly not a sign of good judgment if you're an MP to sign up to Grindr or such like?
I enjoy The News Agents and agree with much of their position, but do they come across a teensy bit too much on the smug metropolitan liberal-lefty side?
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Pop at the #Proms (h/t @kennethwoods)
I’ve illustrated this very funny book by the great @YsendaMG , out on October 31. It’s a must-buy for anyone who grinds their teeth at modern life. #Screams
Are we all silently screaming? Surely the appropriate reaction to all the daily micro-ghastlinesses of modern life. My new book SCREAMS is out on 31 Oct. Nick Newman’s @Ncknwmn brilliant cartoons encapsulate the shrieks (and occasional yelps). Thank you so much, @AbacusBooks
Could be tricky organising the dressing rooms on August 31st
No words…..
@nfmusic True. Typing up my ‘Sam Jackson deserves gratitude’ col as we speak
Wrote about birthday boys Ives and Schoenberg for the Proms guide
How brilliant to see a performing vocal artist be entrusted with a leadership role at an opera company. More of that please…
Oh my Lordy Lordy
Love this. Sort of thing Top Cat would do.
Ripley is very good on what sheer bloody hard work murder is. Honestly. The to-do list is a nightmare. And people are so nosy…
I don’t have a problem with pop at the Proms – some of my favourite Proms have been world music ones (good to see Tinariwen listed) – but it should go both ways. Looking forward to BBC broadcasting orchestras and chamber music from Glastonbury… thetimes.co.uk/article/7c29c5…
Underwhelmed by the Proms this year, must be honest.
Wish @bbcproms would get away from this idea that 'British Music' belongs in a silo - separate and isolated. This was exactly what Sir Andrew Davis was getting at - the need to see it as core repertory. These composers wanted to be integrated into a larger conversation.
GOP Senator Thom Tillis SLAMS Marjorie Taylor Greene (aka Moscow Marjorie): “She is a total waste of time. She is a horrible leader. She is dragging our brand down. She – not the Democrats – are the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority.”
Govt decides that Ofsted’s four grades for schools - inadequate, requires improvement, good, outstanding - should stay. Reply please with a politician’s name and the Ofsted grade you would apply to them as a “a succinct and accessible summary for voters”. No other words allowed!
Announcement: my book is launched next week. Party at Daunt Books, Holland Park. There will be Negroni. You're welcome. #DoIBarkLikeADog (Music: 'Voce e notte' Roberto Murolo)
Andrew Neil: "I'm surprised how tolerant Ofcom has been of GBnews... I certainly would never have allowed politicians to interview other politicians from the same party... incredible... on these areas Ofcom needs to find a backbone... & quick."
RIP Helen Vendler. A critical giant; mischievous, too.
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