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The BBC has done itself more harm in the past week than at any time since Jimmy Savile. It misreported an anti-antisemitism march, banned staff from taking part and blamed Israel for delaying the return of its kidnapped children. BBC News is not to be trusted.
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Seiji Ozawa, RIP
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Message from my Synagogue:
Dear Community,
Unfortunately the Synagogue was daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti last night. e were not the only ones - this occurred in at least 12 other locations in Hampstead and Belsize Park.
The Police, Camden Council and CST have been informed
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So now we know the 'British-Palestinian doctor' the BBC kept interviewing in Gaza was a Hamas stooge. BBC naivety? More likely downright bias
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Only one person in BBC senior team has ever heard the BBC Singers
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The BBC, with its false report of an Israeli attack on a rocket hospital, unlocked latent UK antisemitism and did untold harm to British Jews. The perpetrators of that lie are still reporting for the BBC.
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BBC says: 'Organisers estimated 60,000 took part' in today's march against anti-semitism. Everyone heard the organisers announce 105,000. Just not the BBC.
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Maurizio Pollini, RIP
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Bibi ruled before, during and almost three months after Israel's worst disaster. How the hell is he still there?
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I spotted two anti-BBC banners on the march. There is no question that many Jews hold the BBC responsible for increased anti-semitism.
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Sudden death of a much-loved English maestro
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Who's bossing the BBC? Hint: it's not the D-G
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Great composer RIP☹️
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Watch Yunchan at the Wigmore
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@Keir_Starmer
My daughter caught Covid while her Doctor husband was on hospital duty. Alone and sick, she cared for 3 small children. She did not even tell her parents for fear we might rush over. She recovered, with dignity. Dominic Cummings disgraced himself.
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My daughter caught Covid while her Doctor husband was on hospital duty. Alone and sick, she cared for 3 small children. She did not even tell her parents for fear we might transgress. She recovered, with dignity. Weasel Cummings disgraced himself.
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The causes of antisemitism are known but the perpetrators are devious. History has lessons, no remedies. This is a dark day for London and the UK.
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Macron orders music lessons in every school in France – Slipped Disc
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It took nearly 200 years to build Notre Dame de Paris and a moment's negligence to destroy it.
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What's really new at the BBC Proms
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Zubin Mehta: We have just heard from the Israel Philharmonic that they have woken Zubin up. He is alive and well, thank God. The previous report was from an LA Phil account that had apparently been hacked
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Watch: Cliburn winner's London debut
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@CliveMyrieBBC
You have to wonder why a competent BBC presenter feels a need to mock technical knowledge and deprecate expertise, the more so when he can read music himself. He probably doesn't mean to do it. He is playing to a populist gallery.
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Review: Yunchan Lim wows the Proms with muted intensity
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These we have lost: Sir Andrew Davis, 80
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The softness of his Beethoven was as individual as it was uplifting
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All I want for Christmas is what the BBC tried to abolish
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Martha Argerich, 83 today
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Venezuela has been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Time to shut down the UN
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Yuri Temirkanov, RIP
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Great pianist RIP, 93
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Someone tell me why
@BBCNews
is leading with a lost sub with 5 on board and nothing more about the
hundreds who died in the sea off Greece. Major BBC humanity lapse
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Menahem Pressler, RIP
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George Steiner, who died today, defined Mahler's Vienna as the crucible of modern culture and post-1918 Weimar culture as 'dancing on the edge of a volcano'. Good quips, and true.
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A word about judgement: My daughter caught Covid while her doctor husband was on hospital duty. Alone and sick, she cared for 3 small children. She did not tell her parents for fear we might put ourselves at risk. She recovered, with dignity. Dominic Cummings disgraced himself.
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Neither BBC news nor its website has seen fit to report the death of Penderecki. That's how low culture has sunk in Tony Hall's time
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Unfettered X has unleashed a raft of GB News-type loonies on my feed. Might be time to quit X
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Fake news: Zubin Mehta is alive and well and having a good laugh
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Carlos Kleiber Elektra. Say no more
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Sandy Toksvig says she'd like ro go back and help Clara Schumann. This is BBC musical commentary
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Exclusive: BBC D-G never heard BBC Singers before he decided to sack them (and there's worse)
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BBC News maintains its slots for sports news when there is no sport. It never had a slot for arts news.
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If Lisa Nandy wants to end culture wars, she'll need to clean out Arts Council England top to bottom
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Barenboim and Rattle issue tribute to pianist who died in Putin's prison
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Sad news: Christa Ludwig has died, at 93
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Renata Scotto, RIP
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Just in: Sir John Eliot Gardiner, withdrawing, issues a public apology
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From ACE chair who cut Gly Touring, WNO and more: 'We must incentivise domestic touring – and preserve the cycle of refreshment and renewal that it creates.'
Hopeless.
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Evgeny Kissin: Putin's invasion 'is a war crime'
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@allisonpearson
@JGBartholomew
@BethRigby
@AmberRuddHR
Was any male prime minister every judged on whether he had kids, or not?
@allisonpearson
and
@Telegraph
have lost any contact with decency, judgement and sanity
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Health news: Franz Welser-Möst cancels rest of 2023 with cancer
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@Dr_Ellie
@ICRC
@bringhomenow
@AvivaKlompas
@WeBelieveIsrael
@snj_1970
@BritishRedCross
@ICRC_ilot
@DrNeilStone
@kidneydoc101
@LTCPeterLerner
Well said
@Dr_Ellie
. You are surely aware that Red Cross chief Mirjana is ex-UNRWA.
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1,000 women conductors, and counting
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Exclusive: Sir John Eliot Gardiner is sacked by his orchestras
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Britain will stage its own Eurovision next year with Singapore, Chechnya and Saint Helena
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Ask yourself why you were so ready to believe that Israel bombed a hospital
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I love to play piano but I'd rather be alive
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Deeply distressed at the loss of Lord Sacks. The best read, most intellectual of Chief Rabbis, he was also a warm, engaging conversationalist, happy to explore music, arts and literature on the walk home from shul.
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I have been blocked from posting on Facebook for 3 days. It is OK to deny the Holocaust on Facebook, says Mark Zuckerberg, but not OK to show an opera scene with partly exposed breasts.
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Good news: Murray Perahia is back on styage
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Rattle: Arts Council has inflicted cultural vandalism
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John Adams: BBC has 'joined the march to the bottom'
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Exclusive: How the Leeds Piano Competition is rigged for equality
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@chiggi
@OliverDowden
@HuddlestonNigel
@ECB_cricket
@DCMS
@BorisJohnson
England is now officially the last for helping the arts anywhere in Europe. Well done,
@OliverDowden
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Munich to Gergiev: You have 3 days to condemn Putin or get fired
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Share like crazy: Musicians play Beethoven's 9th from their homes
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Weird and woke: String quartet is fired by its board
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Yuja Wang comes out as a couple
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'Rachel Jupp (who wrote the BBC cuts report) spoke to just two people about the UK choral industry, and one of those was a child'
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@simon_schama
Many of the worst antisemites in 1930s Germany, UK and France were university lecturers. They were out once more on our streets yesterday
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Clive Myrie just said Psalm 150 was by Bruckner. Actully by King David
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The first record Jonathan Sacks chose on BBC's Desert Island Discs was Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. It speaks volumes for his sensitivity, musicality and boundless curiosity. His death today at 72, his mind lively to the last, is a terrible loss for humankind.
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Much loved cellist, RIP
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@simonmontefiore
In a ward of wounded soldiers in a Jerusalem hospital, 15 out of 18 refused to accept a visit from Netanyahu.
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New Year's 2025 will be conducted by him, again
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Sadness: Bernard Haitink has died
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This BBC report comes dangerously close to glorifying Hamas, calling its men 'fighters'. Men who kill unarmed women and children are known as terrorists. Except at the BBC. Read with circumspection.
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Once Upon a Time in America was his symphonic masterpiece. RIP Ennio
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So sorry to hear Tessa Jowell has brain cancer. She was honest, upright old/new Labour. Go kick it, Tessa.
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Hyped-up
@nytimes
ignores grim Brit determination. To say we are reeling is false, offensive and unfit to print.
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Vienna Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall claimed Gergiev held 'political opinions'. They now accept he is Putin's propagandist
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