Today the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its music and streaming market study final report. Read the FAC & MMF statement on the report.

Video of the performance by Quartetto Synthesis of my piece for string quartet, "Phases de doute", performed at the MareTerra Festival last May in Bari youtu.be/vH5LumWcqYo #stringquartet #newcomposer #pugliaevents

Wish I could retweet this ad infinitum

£1 billion has been spent storing unused PPE and Covid tests. That money could have paid for: 🏥 29,954 extra nurses for a year 🍽️41.5 million school lunches 🦃 A Waitrose turkey for every household in the UK this Christmas

“As we now understand the law, water companies can get away with anything. And they do. The Environment Agency can’t or won’t act. Private citizens are blocked from suing. Our intervention aims to remove that blockage.”- Jo Maugham inews.co.uk/news/supreme-c…

The latest postcard from London from the Papua New Guinea Courier's person on the Home Front.

An important cog in the ever turning wheel of universal humanism has passed through leaving all he touched better than it was before. He was and will always be: purveyor of pentatonic perfection; master of blues inflected melodies; hero of vertical and horizontal harmonic…

RIP Wayne Shorter 🌟♥️

Ah to be Abbey Road again! Today we celebrated the MUCH needed PRS Foundation Women Make Music fund ❤️ everytime I'm in a room with women who create and support female and LGBTQ artists, I feel a great sense of warmth, inspiration and safety. More of this please!

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Fave album 💓

This is dynamite from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports News. Absolutely nails it. He has the Tories and BBC on toast. Well done!! 👏 Take 2 mins and watch👇#garylineker #ImWithGary #MOTD #ToryFascists

This thread on Nazi rhetoric is a must read

Board of Jewish Deputies president Marie van der Zyl says that her criticism of the government’s Illegal Asylum Bill does not mean her organisation is pursuing a left-leaning agenda, as two Tory peers allege. This from her is especially apt: “rather than making ill-judged…

In which I am furious and have lost patience about a number of things – mostly the damage being done to cultural infrastructure in this country for the sake of what are, in context, trifling sums of money. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

one of the most informative maps you'll see the ‘true size’ of countries when not distorted on a sphere

💚 #Grenfell

Forbidden to rape, forbidden to murder girls and women. Except if you're a Palestinian man #NoExcuses #RapeIsNotResistance #MeToo_UNless_UR_a_Jew UN Women you are apologists of mass rape and femicide #samibahousresign

Thank you to Kirsten Gillibrand for speaking out at UN Special Session on Sexual Violence in October 7th Attack youtu.be/A0F4QiwkdhM?fe… Shame on you United Nations UN Women António Guterres #UnitedNations #Hamas

UN women’s investigation of the gender based violence on October 7th youtu.be/cB98QWIWoDs?fe…