Remembering Susan Chilcott, the glorious soprano who was only 40 when she died 21 years ago today and who had so much more to give the operatic world.

Hurrah static.roh.org.uk/digital/cast-s…

My last (and only recent) Amazon purchase was a recipe book. I feel like this algorithm’s got some pretty regressive views about gender roles 🤦🏻‍♀️

All my other weekday Proms this season have been early starts, and I’ve taken the detour via Gloucester Road to avoid the seething tide of humanity when the Science Museum kicks out. 8pm start for Mahler 6 = my one civilised walk this summer along the South Ken tunnel.

I’m a big fan of Jamie Oliver’s simpler recipe genres - this is from 5 Ingredients Mediterranean- but why on earth would an ingredients list require *specifically* 480g of dried pasta when it comes in 500g bags (and clearly I’ll just chuck the whole lot in)?

Every exceptional leader I've ever worked for is exactly like this. I doubt the Washington Post would have ever written this article if Kamala were a man.

At a drink-retailers’ festival at Peckham Levels. Spent most of the afternoon advertising the wonders of Bold Tendencies - upstairs in the same building - to total strangers I happened to talk to. Productive times.

If Laura feels that Labour should have turned the country around in the space of two months, you have to wonder what she thinks the previous government were doing over the course of fourteen years?

I have to get up at 6am. The thunderstorm, and the inexplicably loud conversation from somewhere else on my estate, have finally finished, so my own brain has decided to keep me awake instead, with… highlights of The Merry Widow 🙄

Yesterday I saw this clip for the first time. This morning in chapel, a “Ferrari that’s being used as a tractor” analogy came up in the sermon. When I asked him afterwards, the chaplain insisted it was the first he’d heard of it and was simply a very peculiar coincidence 🤣

Aside from the obvious absurdity of alleged greens opposing high speed rail, here we have the absurdity of a situation where the Green Party membership have voted to support HS2, but an unelected Green Party member of the House of Lords still intends to oppose it.

This is a hard-to-advertise potential upside of scrapping Winter Fuel Allowance – the people who successfully apply for pension credit to keep it will be about £4k a year better off than they were before. And by definition they’re low-income households.

This month truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

Did a giant spider write this

Look on the brightside, your membership will increase. Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧

What sort of scum does over a food bank? 🤬🤬🤬 (as the article says, if it was somebody in immediate need they could have just approached them in the usual way). Please donate if you can; I’m just about to.

Aside from the fact that it’s morally turgid, I actually can’t believe how much political capital Labour are allowing to drain away over the Winter Fuel Allowance given it’s a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things, and it’s a stink they’ll carry that’ll never wash off