Listening.Wagner:Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Paul Schoeffler/Ludwig Suthaus/Hilde Scheppen/Erich Kunz/Erich Witte/Friedrich Dalberg - Hermann Abendroth - Bayreuth Festival 16th July 1943

R.Strauss:Die schweigsame frau - Franz Hawlata- Diana Damrau - Toby Spence - Bayerische Staatsoper/Kent Nagano -Munich 20th July 2010

Sixth in the Premier League after 25 games and through to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in 13 years. Marco Silva 👏👏👏 #FFC

In 1959, after Labour had suffered three consecutive election defeats, Nye Bevan made a defiant conference speech in defence of socialism. To celebrate his life, we republish that speech on St. David's Day. tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/tides-…

Saw Close at the lovely new Curzon in Kingston yesterday. What a wonderful film. Incredibly moving with a great score.

I’ve got guests this weekend which is nice after my friend Robin coming down from the Midlands during the week.

The left is truly terrified of Boris Johnson

Keir Starmer You've changed your face all right, not for the better though.

With the Oscars imminent just thinking that the two best films I have seen in the last year have been Close and Aftersun.

Suella Braverman says the asylum system has been overwhelmed by “unprecedented numbers of people arriving here”. There were fewer asylum claims made in the UK last year than in 2002.

I hope I’m not the only one deeply ashamed that a UK govt is introducing legislation that it *knows* is likely to contravene international law. How low have we sunk?

A worthy winner! 👏 #FFC

Personally I'd suggest Gary Lineker for a knighthood but I guess he never broke a woman's nose.

Ian Wright C’mon Micah Richards… you too, please 🙏

You would have thought that the extreme right-wingers in the Tory Party would be too busy ruining the country to worry about Lineker.

So sorry to be missing the Tchaikovsky at Cadogan Hall tonight particularly when it’s so easy to get to for me. Suffering from a streaming cold and hacking cough which is annoying as it’s one of my favourite Tchaik operas and a friend had offered me a comp ticket. Ahime!

I don’t work for the BBC so I'm free to say what I feel. The language used by Suella Braverman and Priti Patel, about refugees and migrants, is very similar to language used in Germany in the 1930s. It's a fact. RT if you agree.

God Fulham this is really embarrassing. Not been playing well for weeks now, but this is dreadful.

Listening to Rusalka and wondering if the scene for the three wood nymphs in the last act is not one of the most beautiful things in the operatic repertoire.