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Nice to have a book dedicated to you isn’t it? Congratulations to Francesca Simon on the release of her new novel, Salka, based on our cantata The Faerie Bride. It’s a beautiful thing. Faber Books BBC NOW

Very happy to be featured in the Proms this year! Britten Sinfonia BBC Proms Bristol Beacon bbc.co.uk/events/ezzv9r

Looking forward to this!

It’s okay Sandy you can buy a can of baked beans for 27p and have breakfast for a week

The orchestra sounding bloody glorious today rehearsing my new piece Cortège for a Coal Mine with BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus & Lee Reynolds - hope to see you at the concert! If you can’t make it it will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 10th May Sam Jackson BBC Sounds

We are through the looking glass!

"I’ve been in this House 20 years, I have supported Israel pretty much at all costs quite frankly." “But today I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza" –Conservative MP Mark Pritchard

Tune into BBC Radio 3 this morning 11:15 where I’ll be chatting with Tom Service about my new piece Cortège for a Coal Mine, recorded by BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and Lee Reynolds - it gets quite brassy in the middle 😉

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

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As politicians stoke the flames of bigotry, it's worth sharing the words of a real working-class hero. Dennis Skinner on immigration

Can’t wait to get back to the North for this!

Every single person should listen to this statement at the UN. "I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you." "Future generations will hold us to account, we should fear that judgement."

I sat down with Elizabeth Watts to talk about music and neurodiversity for BBC Radio 3 Music Matters. Hope you can join us tomorrow at 1pm! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The fact that the first piece of advice we give to people applying for PIP is "Prepare to have to appeal and maybe go to tribunal", shows how stacked against disabled people the system already is.

Lovely to see the Guardian chose our episode of BBC Radio 3 Music Matters as their pick of the week. Thank you for everyone who has reached out to me about it - nice to hear it’s resonating with you! Tandem Sam Jackson Tourettes Action

Hope to see you in Ryedale next month!

Derek ‘fanny-loves-dick’ Acorah who was famously rumbled as a big old faker by Ciarán O’Keefe after being fed fake names like Rik Eedles (an Anagram of Derek Lies) who he then proceeded to channel on TV - but sure, nice sensible stuff from Reform here…

My new song cycle premieres Britten Pears Arts and Ryedale Festival and I wrote about it for the Guardian, a love letter to the North! see you at the concerts! Chris Glynn Tamsin Waley-Cohen Royal Northern College of Music David Butcher BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Manchester Camerata Baroness Keeley of Worsley (also on BlueSky) theguardian.com/music/2025/jun…