Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel An independent Scotland joining the EU and Schengen is more likely than this! A #CrossChannelRail quick rant jonworth.eu/forget-it-th...

Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel

There's a higher chance that Scotland becomes independent, and joins the EU and Schengen, than the Caledonian Sleeper is extended through the Channel Tunnel under the current political framework. Rea...

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Just had a call with a clinical pharmacist and I'm convinced he was on a train from the background noise. Asked my name and discussed a prescription. So that's good.

Choral fans! If you like Dove: Seek Him and Shaw: and the swallow- what else would you recommend?,

@scotteeisfat.bsky.social isn't here but I shared his Ben Nevis clip today to much hilarity from someone who doesn't scroll but has climbed Ben Nevis. I can no longer run but I love his running content. So do follow him on .. wherever that is.

If you don't know this yet, what fun for you!

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 23h ago

BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks Now Playing Caroline Shaw, Tenebrae & Nigel Short and the Swallow

For anyone else interested: Chesham Arms for real ale and general loveliness, The Cock, as others have said, The Ship, overlooked pub and often quieter than others. The Spurstowe Arms.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · yesterday

People who know: a) Hackney, and b) my taste in pubs (cosy, real ale, dogs, no sports, no TV, no live music, no loud music, maybe burgers) What is the best pub in walking distance of the Moth Club?

Literally won last year's Booker. Although it wasn't very funny.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · yesterday

I think my least favourite trope in modern TV might be “comedy Eastern European gangsters”.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Excellent post from @lowtraffichackney.bsky.social www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/... 'Traffic is not like water in a pipe ... It is the result of thousands of individual decisions as to when, how and whether to make a journey'

Why opening up roads won’t relieve Hackney’s traffic congestion - Low Traffic Hackney

News, information and updates about the campaign to reduce traffic in Hackney to make the borough a healthier, safer and better place to live. Updates on Hackney Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), Sch...

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Watching the extraordinary 1st act of the 1987 Nixon in China production on YouTube. It's wonderful but I understand why the Gershwin estate has rules about Porgy and Bess and Adams could have done the same with Nixon. Plenty of Asian opera singers.

Musing: could any band in 80s or 90s have imagined that they would sell huge venues now because their original fans still follow them, and so do their children.

Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Around 500,000 Roma & Sinti people were killed by the Nazis in the Porajmos. There was no state given to them after the war. Commemoration of their suffering is often diminished or forgotten. Racism towards Romani people across Europe remains acceptable.

Bev Craig: "Trans women are women. Trans men are men." She won her election in a landslide because sane people believe in personal freedom, dignity, and sovreignty.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Labour's Bev Craig wins the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election, defeating Reform by a landslide after the second round LAB: Bev Craig: 309,525 (66%) REF: Sian Astley: 157,178 (33%)

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺, with readings by Hazel Holder Apple – lrb.me/odysseyapple Spotify – lrb.me/odysseyspotify Website – lrb.me/odysseyweb Get 50% off a 12-month Close Readings subscription with code SUMMER50: lrb.me/atasummer50

Signed up to read the LRB recently? This article about the NHS and Palantir is excellent (and not just for people with concerns about data use) Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS share.google/lvz3CRwkAUr9...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Does anyone remember Mixing It? I'd get back on a Saturday and one bloke who liked field recordings and one bloke who liked techno would play weird music at me. I wasn't complaining.

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 5d ago

BBC Radio 3 Late Junction Now Playing Field recording by Eiji Hinoki Sending Insects (Mushiokuri)

I really didn't like the last Vittles hard copy. The ick factor is just not my thing, I'd read a lot of the other articles already and the graphics reminded me of Smash Hits having an experimental moment in 1984. The latest seems like a cool, calm breeze in comparison.

I've had a series of Depeche Mode earworms lately which is fine. But they've just been replaced by 'To cut a long story short' which is not.

From the FOI Five by Tim Turner (2040 Training): 'I'm sure I've been guilty of editorialising in some of my FOI Requests but I try to avoid it because it can be a distraction'. Yes please, what information that we might hold do you want? There's other means to have a go at an authority than FOI.

Trillions of dollars, billions of litres of water, millions of tonnes of CO2, infinite hype… …and it can’t even draw a map of Africa.

Double Fold by Nicholson Baker explores the value of the object over the informational content, where microform is the replacement for the original format. It's an emotional book but highly readable. Microform at least only makes the content really tiny!

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

I'm delighted that the article was popular enough to cause trouble with your website, and I very much hope that Bluesky was a significant factor in causing that desirable sort of problem!

Everybody hates to receive redacted information in a SAR. But the disclosing body has to protect other individuals involved. We often get requests for review on the basis 'I can't see the size and shape of what's redacted that would give me a clue as to what it says'. I'm afraid that's deliberate.

I did everything they asked, played nicely, played their games. - Fought for a GP referral to GIC - Waited 16 months for a GIC appointment - Answered the invasive questions - Took their homeopathic doses of HRT - Saved the NHS money by having private SRS - Took statutory declarations 1/8

I sadly clicked on Collider's list of best books of the 21st century. At least there's a Christmas list for your centrist grandad.

Political challenge: if you’re not willing to spend a year without regularly getting dressed, showering, or leaving the house, you’re not allowed to lobby against every reasonable effort to fund social care reform.

Did you know that you can make a maximum of 3 arrangements from West Side Story according to the Bernstein estate (also you must never have an adult woman singing the Adonai in Chichester Psalms, but I've sung it, heigh ho).

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · last wk.

BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Now Playing Leonard Bernstein, Matthias Höfs & German Brass Maria & Mambo (West Side Story) arr for brass ensemble

Although I can't help but feel butting the judge as soon as he entered the ring - as one beast did - has got to be worth at least a couple of points. Sadly we missed the "most evil sheep" category this time. We did get to see a Lincoln Longwool have explosive hiccups though.

Reading David Runciman · The Cult of Longevity share.google/yZVZKp122JSu... lots interesting, lots enraging. Casual comments about 'most of us end up needing collective support' indicates someone who has never engaged with adult social care.

Just seen an early interview with Marina Sirtis and she's a proper North London Greek Cypriot like George Michael (and one of my best friends at school).