@cath_cov Sincerity is the key: once you've learned to fake that, you're made.

Recommendation 4e is startling: the determination to improve the infantry in India in 1943 knew no bounds.

“Incredible life”: who on earth is this meant to convince?

A fine officer too, by all accounts @LDLightCav

@RichardBratby A few years ago I drove to Birmingham one Sunday from Wiltshire for an afternoon concert performance of the ROH’s Ariadne, via mass at the Oratory. The sermon stays with me still, and the Ariadne. What a city.

@amwilson_opera @E_N_O Brava! We've been taking grandchildren to @WelshNatOpera at @mayflower since they were seven. I've never understood the "problem."

@cath_cov @CyrilDash Indeed. The old "Laudian" excuse that the candles were needed to read by.

@cath_cov @CyrilDash This would appear to be a (south) side altar - and with candles. Very strange...

@jonathanboff But of course, Hamlet didn't end well.

@cath_cov @CyrilDash Is this the last known photo of a northendian? (Or indeed, a photo of the last northendian?)

Please, @amolrajan @BBCr4today, “patriots” not “paytriots”.

RT @ianpacemain: This is the letter from the Society for Music Analysis to the Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University about the recent decis…

@RobertGladden3 I notice that the camera pans down from just below the point of the steeple, so that the red flag which the old rascal hoisted isn't seen.

@WelshNatOpera You may have heard @cardiffuni vice chancellor on @BBCr4today this morning. I'd have thought that a distinguished social scientist would have understood perfectly why this move is so damaging.

"The UK might be willing to commit about 20,000 soldiers — about a quarter of the British Army, supported by reserves and commandos." I'm afraid I think this is impossible, even as a one-off, 6-month deployment.

@WalterReid1 I think I “identify with” the insouciant Maj Charlie Scott (Dennis Price).

@TCStJWarrington I’d never have thought it, either, having a residual admiration for Old Labour.

@ElizAthertonSop @cardiffuni @WelshGovernment Besides the obvious, it deprives the student community of people with singular qualities. The university is diminished.