This is a 'must buy' CD for me! Dame Myra Hess, Felix Salmond, Gaspar Cassado & Jelly D'Aranyi together on one disc in Schubert & Brahms! A stellar gathering of musical genius from the golden age. Insightful review in the Strad:-thestrad.com/reviews/myra-h…

youtu.be/vpog6JqV7Q8?fe… Announcing an important exhibition in Vienna at the renowned Exilarte Center.

I keep hearing “we want our country back”. Yeah we all do. How’s about being able to buy a home on one wage? Or wages even being liveable? What about same day GP appointments? Or ambulances arriving within minutes? Clean rivers and beaches? I could go on and on. But I’ll tell one

Meet Luna apparently the smartest dog on IG While other doggos are out here eating socks and chasing tails, Luna’s knows addition, multiplication, and subtraction who knows she might know calculus 😂

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a McCarthy-era initiative founded in the 1940s by her father, Henry Fonda, to protect against attacks on free speech. "The McCarthy Era ended when Americans from across the political spectrum finally came together

There now needs to be a criminal investigation into the ministers involved with access to phone records, emails and bank accounts. There’s no way in hell they made so many crooks rich out of the goodness of their hearts. news.sky.com/story/firm-lin…

🚨NEW: Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda in re-launching The Committee for the First Amendment, an organization founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism. RETWEET to thank Streisand for standing up for free speech!

#quoteoftheday ⁦Leonard Bernstein⁩ says it best. Music unites. #music

I don't have the clout these amazing women have but I would love to join their team.

Apparently Elon Musk has just become the world's first half-trillionaire & is the world's richest person. No wonder Trump is friends with him again. This meme is especially apposite.

This is priceless!

I'm astonished that Trump let this pass....

Does anyone know what on earth this man is talking about? Remember America, he has the Nuclear Codes & is arguably the most powerful man on earth. facebook.com/share/r/17G57i…

Looking forward to this:

This oak door in Westminster Abbey, where monarchs have been crowned since 1066, is Britain’s oldest door. Although the abbey was rebuilt 750 years ago, the door dates back to Edward the Confessor’s original abbey in the 1060s, making it nearly a thousand years old.

The gale force wind finally subsided enough to allow me to go shopping. I wish I hadn't! Christmas appears to have arrived in the supermarkets even earlier than usual this year....which made me particularly appreciate this meme! All I can add is "Precisely!"

Radio Times 1955. Not a cookery programme, or game show in sight! How the times change - and we with them.

🚄 Brexit means Britain’s left off the map and cut off. The EU is launching a Europe-wide high-speed rail network: 49,400 km linking every capital and major city at 250–350 km/h. It’s the future of green travel and connection. And we’re not on it thanks to Brexit #Brexit

If Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are all against the European Convention on Human Rights, that's probably a good reason to be for it

This gate in Vienna is a masterpiece of optical illusion.