One’s first Tweet should be something special . . . My friend Maud was singer at Richard Rodney Bennett’s last public appearance, two months before his death on Christmas Eve 2012. Her new CD ‘The Songs of Richard Rodney Bennett’ is released this summer.

@RichardBratby Was it in his Birmingham lectures that Elgar upset a few people when he stated that the “living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further north”?

@eggsbened Ooh, thanks for the tip. Screenplay by JLC too.

@PeterKalve @thejazzestate “of oriental tedium, long-winded and portentous demonstrations of religiosity. [With Coltrane] jazz started to be ugly on purpose: his nasty tone would become more and more exacerbated until he was fairly screeching at you like a pair of demoniacally-possessed bagpipes.” 2/2

@Cbucksrules @SResisters Seconded!

@PeterKalve The Founding Fathers sure didn’t see this one coming, did they? And as it all plays out, we shall surely miss the remarkable Gen. Milley more than we would like to think . . .

@BinTrantum @HWarlow Who knew? Not Anthony Burgess. He was of course a great self-mythologiser, but these fab ladies (great photo) do not come into it. Grok is never to be relied on, of course, but Wiki does give a well-documented account of AB's various explanations for the title.

@Ersatz_F @LeoKearse For now I see through a glass queerly : but then off my face. — 1 Corinthians 13:12 (King James Version, more or less; oh *come on* we all know about HER)

@jjohnstonmezzo @McKayEli @ltmuseum Jennifer! Lovely to see you again after Too Long. All power to your (pl) elbows.

@SeeRedWoman1 @treesey We (lay ppl) got her off & down. Counterintuitive of crse, but my impression is that despite the fact that US medicine may be thought $$$ led, NHS doctors (not nurses) are *way* more likely to be dismissive of patients/their families. Not just my own experiences . . .

@treesey @SeeRedWoman1 My mother-in-law, in her late 80s and suffering not from Alzheimer’s but from massive over-medication (we are in the USA), thought the Nazis *and* the Jews were coming for her; and running the world, of course.

@SCynic1 I am GREEEEN.

@ifellonithonest Ffs, he’s on oath, isn’t he?

@Glinner @bukkko @allybalder Oh bummm! And apolologies. I think that’s the first time my Super-S-Dar* has failed me. Twitter tone so treacherous: def need a symbol of some kind. *Satirical/sarcastic/sardonic/synical

@DonPatt77300577 @Glinner No names, no pack drill (and always to observe Chatham House Rules), but the last Eye lunch I went to, the (*coughs*) chap opposite me described her as a “clueless troll” . . .

@allybalder @Glinner Oh, no, Graham: why not curl up & die now? Ulster Rugby (a somewhat implausible capture, perhaps) are onto yer . . .

@CathyRLowe That would have been before (however little before) PPE fell into disrepute, for obvious reasons . . .

@ValDobson @BeverleyBA65 @SVPhillimore @DratulGawa6527 @BBCScotlandNews So are they using the guy in the mask (which obvs makes him the object of focal interest) as a sort of decoy? Jeez . . .

@CathyRLowe “The defendant was seen trying the lock numerous times. When approached, she claimed she was engaged in a gothic novel, in the production of which she was using the pseudo-Stanislavskian-post-modern-deconstructionist technique of method writing.”

@Glinner And note the use of passive voice to obscure the agency here. Dr Upton’s face wasn’t hidden by a scarf: Dr Upton hid his face *with* a scarf.