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Your frequent reminder that Farage wants to frack the UK - in multiple ways - and that doing so won’t make a blind bit of difference to energy bills It would, however, make us more dependent on volatile fossil fuels, make the climate crisis worse & industrialise the countryside Don’t vote Reform

A massive privilege to present this today.

Leicester International Music Festival@leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today's lunchtime concert by Fenella Humphreys, Nicholas Daniel & Martin Roscoe was just as wonderful as we'd expected and a very large audience went away very happy after an hour of gorgeous music-making at Hansom Hall.

What a great lunchtime concert by the Paddington Trio yesterday at Hansom Hall - their playing is so nimble and full of energy. We would love to have them back!

What a great start to a new season! We welcomed a large audience to Hansom Hall and Sasha Grynyuk kept them enthralled with a sparkling hour of magnificent playing. As someone said on the way out, our Steinway sounded like an orchestra today.

Great to hear the cheers for our marvellous players at the end of last night's concert - the first of our four-day festival. Join us at Hansom Hall 1pm today for our lunchtime concert with Nicholas Daniel (oboe); Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) and Charles Owen (piano). wegottickets.com/event/672184

Sanders: “What are the long-term implications for the well-being of our kids and the country if faith in vaccine science is undermined?” Dr. Monarez: “Preventable diseases will return. I believe that we will have our children harmed for things that we know they do not need to be harmed by.”

A week today, we will be enjoying our 2025 Festival Lunchtime Concert at the lovely Hansom Hall, with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) & Charles Owen (piano). Join us for great music by Schubert, Ravel & our composer-in-residence, Emma-Ruth Richards. wegottickets.com/event/672184

Leicester International Music Festival 2025: Concert 2, 'The Wanderer'

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Charles Owen (piano) Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano 18’ Ravel: Waltzes Nobles et Sentimentales 15’ Emma-Ruth Richards: De Stamparare for solo o...

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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Our government is not defending us www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... The UK is facing the greatest existential threat since WW II and Labour is hoping we won’t notice.

Our government is not defending us

As The Guardian reports this morning: Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to...

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#LIMF2025 featuring Franz Schubert, who still breaks and mends hearts in equal measure; Maurice Ravel, whose 150th birthday we celebrate, and Emma-Ruth Richards, who brings a bold and deeply personal voice to the festival. Join us 17-20 September. www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk

World-class chamber music in the East Midlands this autumn! #Leicester

Leicester International Music Festival@leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · last yr.

Pleased bring you exciting news of our Festival September 17-20, with a great team led by Nicholas Daniel. Vibrant Landscapes: Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel & Emma-Ruth Richards. More info at: www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk/limf-2025

They are supposed to be an organisation that protects wildlife - not sanctioning the hunting of birds! Shame on @naturescot.bsky.social

UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal – but says it comes four years too late Simon Spurrell was forced to sell his business because of £600,000 loss caused by Brexit red tape www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal – but says it comes four years too late

Simon Spurrell was forced to sell his business because of £600,000 loss caused by Brexit red tape

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Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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That's 95k! We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament. Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

We’re looking forward to this and would love you to join us at Hanson Hall, Thursday 1pm: wegottickets.com/event/630543

Oliver Pashley (clarinet) & George Fu (piano)

Oliver Pashley is a clarinettist based between London and St Leonards-on-Sea. He is a founding member of contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment and holds the position of Sub-Principal Clarinet wit...

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Composers Edition@composersed.bsky.social · last yr.

Clarinettist Oliver Pashley and pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu will premiere Philip Cashian’s ‘Fiction’ at the Leicester International Music Festival on Thursday! @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/cashians-fic...

A magnificent lunchtime recital by Fiachra Garvey at Hansom Hall today, and it was great to that there was a capacity audience to enjoy such wonderful playing and such incredible sounds. Impossible not to be moved by the 'Great Gate at Kiev' which closed the concert - an anthem for our times.

We have a fabulous piano recital for you this Thursday lunchtime, 1pm at Hansom Hall, Belvoir St. Fiachra Garvey will play Gershwin 'Rhapsody in Blue', Debussy, Albéniz, Mendelssohn & Mussorgsky 'Pictures'. We'd love you to join us! Full details & tickets: wegottickets.com/event/630538

Fiachra Garvey (piano) - LIMF Lunchtime Concert 11

1st prizewinner at the 2012 Jaques Samuel Competition, London, Fiachra Garvey ARAM, has performed in venues from the Fazioli Auditorium in Italy to London’s Wigmore Hall. ‘…brings a deep and infectio...

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That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned. We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures. Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post! Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

If Trump was President in 1940

This ridiculous @telegraphnews.bsky.social story www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02... clearly placed by BASC, should persuade you to sign this act.wwt.org.uk/page/160992/... asking Defra to ban lead ammunition. It's the ammo that is poisonous, silly!

Boss of wildfowl charity who suggested ‘all game is poisonous’ attended meat awards

Charity is accused of shooting itself in the foot after it emerges Sarah Fowler, its chief executive, was a guest at Eat Game Awards

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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan... mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...

The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan

To America where Elon Musk, the world’s most economically wealthy and spiritually impoverished man, is staging a coup.

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Looking forward to presenting this today - I'd love to see you there!

Leicester International Music Festival@leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's Lunchtime Concert will be a real highlight. Join us at Hansom Hall (1pm) to hear Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake playing music from their recent and very successful album featuring music by Robert and Clara Schumann? wegottickets.com/event/630527 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxs-...

We’re all immune to it at this point but we have to remind ourselves that this is an abomination. A catastrophe. A grotesque corruption. And a betrayal of the millions who fought and sacrificed in the great wars of the 20th Century to escape a world that works like this.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today in this is not normal: (courtesy @atrupar.com who keeps an eye on trump for the rest of us...)

“The whole of the UK is multicultural. We’ve always had people from different parts of the world come and be with us. It’s how we make the most of everyone, how we make it work. Because when it works, it is beautiful and it is something to be celebrated.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tory focus on immigration helped stoke riots, equalities committee chair says

Exclusive: Sarah Owen warns Reform MPs are making task of strengthening UK communities more urgent

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What a superb lunchtime concert today by Mathilde Milwidsky & Huw Watkins at Hansom Hall - a great way to end 2024 😍

We have a lovely concert for you in #Leicester today (1-2pm): Mathilde Milwidsky and Huw Watkins at the historic Hansom Hall, playing music by Ravel, Boulanger, Marsalis and Huw Watkins himself. Do join us! wegottickets.com/event/630522

Mathilde Milwidsky (violin) and Huw Watkins (piano) - LIMF Lunchtime Concert 6

“The performance, needless to say, was a tour de force… it made this second concert in the Musica Viva Series probably the finest violin and piano duo recital heard in the city for a number of years.”...

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Massive away win for the little fella.

Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…