We are next Cafe OTO on 18 February. cafeoto.co.uk/events/plus-mi…

Discover and create exciting new music from Durham and beyond with @DurhamMusicon in this packed weekend of concerts and workshops, including your chance to be part of a new composition musicdurham.co.uk/events/new-mus…

We are at Cafe OTO Tuesday 18.2 playing the lounge-jazz arrangement Aaron Wyanski has made of Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra, alongside pieces by Cassandra Miller and Laurence Crane. cafeoto.co.uk/events/plus-mi… Here's Aaron discussing his arrangement: youtu.be/twYfFHwt6cg

A breach of the refugee convention and latest evidence Keir Starmer’s government has adopted a hardline “hostile environment” stance on asylum to fight off a poll surge by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Labour need to be better than this theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

🗣️ Hayley Walsh speaks with Tom Swarbrick on LBC Radio 🛢️ “Climate breakdown will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.” 🦺 Sit in the road to Reclaim Parliament this

Random 1976 Sunday on Radio 3: new Finnissy orchestral work, Structures II, review of a book by Finnish musicologist Erik Tawaststjerna, organ works by Ives, Piston, Sessions. Can someone start an automated online station that plays 50-yr-old R3? genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/serv…

Hi Yorkshire Water 💧. Based on my annual increase of £160, Nicola Shaw's bonus from last year could pay for <2300 customers' bill increases - none of whom have a choice to take their business elsewhere. Will she be accepting her bonus this year?

Robert Altman was born 100 years ago today We explore the dizzying ambition, creative ingenuity and technical innovation that went into the making of Robert Altman’s extraordinary, impressionistic portrait of Tennessee’s country music capital, Nashville bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Utterly shameful - a sickening betrayal of some of the poorest people. And deeply counterproductive too - as if global security isn’t also dependent on efforts to tackle the climate crisis, global poverty, inequality, and humanitarian needs.

V happy to be bringing MenCon (Mendelssohn Vn Concerto) to Edinburgh and Dublin over the next month or so. Me, Chihiro + Andy Ingamells Birmingham Record Company team up with Kirkos Ensemble & CoMA Glasgow March 22 - Pianodrome Edin 4pm April 27 - TBA, Dublin, lunchtime BBirmBirmin

The richest 1% of people in the UK are worth £2.8 trillion. Tell me again why a Labour government needs to cut benefits for the disabled and the poor.

We stand in support of all the artists on Ashwin street. The artists on the street are our neighbours, friends and colleagues. For nearly 20 years, Cafe OTO has been part of, and grown alongside, the creative community on Ashwin street. We have held an office in V22 for

I wonder how Gove's Spectator will cover this? bylinetimes.com

By-election is disastrous for Labour but still no evidence Reform can win a majority. It will never win big cities/Remain areas. Farage remains toxic and repels over half the population. There will be a hard ceiling to his support. Still, Labour has done all it can to help him.

Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really wonder how they sleep at night.

The swifts are back! But there are 10k fewer than last year. Write to your MP, asking them to support the swift brick amendment, by signing the EDM- edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti… THE GOVT ARE DISCUSSING THE AMENDMENT NEXT WEEK….

Just read that Per Nørgård, one of the composing giants of our time, has died. With sad coincidence, he's programmed in our series at Kettle's Yard tomorrow night. Deni Teo and Joseph Havlat will be playing his Cantica for cello and piano. A nice way to remember a great life.

🚫 No feet on seats.

Almost all of our problems stem from the Thatcher era when almost all our national assets were sold off to private and foreign interests.