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This week on rising misogyny & classical music
"Not taking active steps to redress historical imbalance sends a message ... that classical music is a space where varying degrees of sexism and misogyny are tolerated."
open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...
Maybe they hadn’t realised the copyright lapsed in 2015 and were trying to avoid being sued
can we go one day in this country without a new moral panic about the youth
The guarded language being used regarding cops purposely shooting at journalists is only strange if you're very very stupid.
Entirely this: I’d add that being serious about climate change is a hygiene factor for many voters. In not a single UK constituency does concern about climate drop below 50% - hitting 68% in Clacton. There’s a debate on the ‘how’ and particularly how to do it fairly but much less on the principle.
To be clear, the centre ground on net zero is that the public are broadly supportive - even if there is some conditionality to that support.
The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact.
Following the Supreme Court decision, if you are excluding trans people you are choosing to do so. You do not HAVE to, you are doing it because you WANT to. You are not defining trans people, you are telling the world who YOU are.
My view: The “interim update” from the EHRC, and doubtless the actual “guidance” when it is produced, will try and obscure the fact that any exclusion of trans people is not compulsory, it is a choice. If anyone is excluding trans people from anywhere they are choosing to be transphobic, they…
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The argument that actually punishing Le Pen and her cronies for their crimes will only make them stronger in the long run is a little hard to swallow when we have a prominent example of a right-wing authoritarian who was very much not punished for his crimes and is now wrecking everything in sight.
the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.
"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"
Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:
People say attention spans are short now, but theatrical playbills from the olden days are like:
ᴍʀ ᴡᴀʀʙᴏʏs ᴡɪʟʟ ᴘᴇʀғᴏʀᴍ
ONELY THE GOOD BITS FROM
- 𝕁 𝕌 𝕃 𝕀 𝕌 𝕊 ℂ 𝔼 𝔸 𝕊 𝔸 ℝ -
ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ʟɪɴᴇs ғʀᴏᴍ
- 𝕆 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕃 𝕃 𝕆 -
ᴡʜᴇʀᴇᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴍʀs sᴀᴍsᴏɴ ᴡɪʟʟ
𝙱 𝚁 𝙴 𝙰 𝙺 𝙳 𝙰 𝙽 𝙲 𝙴
but what if scholarly opinion has shifted in the intervening time??? What then???
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
the fact that none of these ai dorks seem to realize that humans are capable of thought or introspection—perhaps implying they cannot do this themselves—does kind of explain a lot
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
it really says something that there’s not only one person this tweet could have applied to
A screenshot from the BBC wildlife documentary “Asia” showing microorganisms rising out of a dark see, with the caption “with this done, their bodies are programmed to die”
Singers on December 26th
it’s December 9th somewhere probably
look I just heard it but I thought it was December 9th today is that such a crime
I said “before,” not “without”…
Made it to December 9th before getting Whammed. Is that a record?
Going to eat a bunch of magnets just to see if that's anything
Interstellar is just an adaption of the Queen song ‘39, right?
#CatsInCases
(my case, but not my cat)
take this over schumann any day
been thinking long and hard about how I can perform less serious music and more high victorian camp in the manner of come into the garden maud and suchlike suggestions welcome
British journalism is so cursed
Large Cultural Institutions — such as opera companies — want to support innovation in ways that do not challenge their primacy. As long as "opera" can be definitionally limited to things that only opera companies can do, they are relevant and superior. Open the gates too wide and the game is over.
Yeah it’s definitely even more explicitly classed in the US given that under 1% of pupils go to private school; but I think because the figure is somewhere between 7 and 12% in the UK they manage to be a much bigger and more detrimental part of the national conversation and policy planning
the incoming government has tried to do one very minor policy to begin to redress this imbalance away from private schools and the amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth with which it has been met is absolutely astounding