A refreshingly original take on an Oscar-winning film. **** for The Artist at Theatre Royal Plymouth
thetimes.co.uk/article/4452dc…

The rule is you RT this pic whenever you see it

Racking up the equivalent of a cricket score of culture secretaries isn't “really valuable” for the sector, it's outrageous. Playing ministerial merry-go-round with the role of Culture Secretary is a symbol of the insulting way they’ve treated people who work in these industries.

I'm obsessed by this picture that appears in a Q&A on 'my money and me' with Lesley Garrett. It reveals new depths every time I look at it.

NEW: Ofcom considering statutory sanction against GB News over “serious and repeated” breaches of British TV laws relating to channel’s lack of impartiality.

'None of us can afford the luxury of pessimism'. What happened when Clemency Burton-Hill met Daniel Barenboim to talk about Arabs and Israelis playing music together. thetimes.co.uk/article/8dfbdc…

OK, trying another tack: where would *you* have put your sunglasses?

Spectacular interview with Aidan O’Brien in today’s ST sport

Mahler 5, Beethoven 9, Barenboim and the First Night are the classical ones.

'None of us can afford the luxury of pessimism'. What happened when Clemency Burton-Hill met Daniel Barenboim to talk about Arabs and Israelis playing music together. thetimes.co.uk/article/8dfbdc…

That’s ME! ( and John Diedrich) Oklahoma, Palace Theatre, 1981. I’ve never seen this photo before. I never even look at this part of the paper usually. Weird.

Me, wearing a beret and drinking a pastis: 'Take that Remain!'

Ermonela, no, I just washed that floor

'The dire circumstances they face have been entirely engineered by powerful anti-opera factions operating within their public funders: Arts Council England and its Welsh and Scottish equivalents…'

Unmissable Richard Morrison column on the state of UK opera: thetimes.co.uk/article/goodby…

At 1pm tomorrow, we welcome the remarkable Clemency Burton-Hill, MBE back to BBC Radio 3, for a major new series profiling West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim. This piece in The Times and The Sunday Times (in the paper tomorrow) is deeply moving: thetimes.co.uk/article/we-are…

Pausing midway through my letter to Bath cousin to post my review of the event. The King takes a bow! Kaufmann does operetta! Terfel does his usual thing! And let us stan Ermonela Jaho for supplying everything a opera gala really needs - camp thetimes.co.uk/article/a42131…