Thank goodness for the red card, otherwise all the English pundits would have to discuss England’s abject lack of attacking intent. Watching Eng rugby atm is like watching the cricket team under Joe Root - lots of positive words masking a worrying lack of ambition and change.

Yes let’s celebrate u-turn on scrapping BBC Singers , but pls remember that they will just shift the cut to a less vocal (excuse the pun) department. Music’s gain is another sector’s loss. Do we just fight our corner, or do we stand in solidarity with all departments? #nocuts

Welsh Duolingo has gone rogue #pinkparsnips

Anna Magdalena: “Don’t forget my parents are coming round for lunch on Easter Day” JSB:

Happy Annual day of large companies performatively pretending to give a shit about the planet while continuing to trash it 🙃🌍☠️ #EarthDay2023 #JustStopOil

Archbishop Wake’s take on the music at George II’s coronation. “The Anthem in Confusion” 🙄

Given how well the Greens did, it is absolutely ridiculous how much the British media has ignored them. They more than doubled their seats, despite minimal media coverage and the vast majority of voters having no idea who even leads them.

Police state 🙃 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-655074…

I like studying French organists’ handwriting, Demessieux the better

🎻 Baroque cellist and gamba player Emily Ashton was arrested after protesting in Cambridge for environmental action. 🚪 She was asked to leave her teaching position at a private school following the arrest. Her music career was close to being over Extinction Rebellion Global FRETWORK

Except they’re not sorry, are they? “Sorry for deliberately doing a thing we could have chosen not to do” is madness Sewage spills: England's water firms issue apology - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

The career of Ruth Kelly encapsulates our national journey into hell over the past two decades: 🌹Minister in Blair government 💷Global Head of Client Strategy for HSBC 💷🎓Senior university manager 💷✝️Vatican money manager (!) 💷💩Sewage Barons spokesperson

Today, Parliament debates the question of public access to nature & the Right to Roam. This brilliant essay-thread unwinds why increased access matters — really matters. Please read, share. “To the question ‘Why do you need more’, I give the answer ‘Why do you need less?’”

Today’s sensational discovery is that Welsh has one word (dysgu) to mean both “to teach”, and “to learn”, as if both are part of the same process of discovery, both are symbiotic, the lichenisation of education.

#SpringWatch saw this strange fungus(?) on a row of blackthorn earlier, where the emerging berries should be - any tips as to what is going on?

Many congrats Jonny Bairstow and your girlfriend on the birth of your son. The cricket-loving choral music world is thrilled your son is called Edward.

After the coma I was in a geriatric ward. Some of the agency night nurses seemed irritated. One wouldn't let me have the buzzer. One got cross when I fell out of bed. I was lonely and called home. Emma couldn't come in. At least you, Boris were having parties though. That's good

If you are more angry at an opera being interrupted then you are about the death and destruction being wrought by companies that have a long history of funding said opera culture, then, my friend, you have missed the point, and spectacularly so 🙃🙃🙃

“Automated technology will take over the world” Automated technology:

The police are allowing peaceful protestors to be assaulted in the streets. We saw this with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. This is how fascist societies operate. Metropolitan Police - what are you doing to uphold the rule of law?