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Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
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I thought you mean as De Gaulle for a horrible moment there…
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Recently used a recipe calling itself an Irish old-fashioned, using elderflower liqueur instead of vermouth and i can confidently assert it was sweet.
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There used to be a whole bit of the centre right that was about tradition, pragmatism, scepticism of big change etc which 2019 really immolated.
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But it did cede a whole lot of ground to the Labour Party to become the main party of constitutionalism, gradualism, fiscal prudence etc...
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Midori (the source of the luminescence), tequila, Cointreau, fresh lime juice….
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Precisely. It’s a bit like being asked to get in a car with someone you know can’t read basic road signs.
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More than that, Louis Armstrong was too ill to play the trumpet which had to be ghosted by another player; he literally had no time left when singing that song….
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I think you mean 'defending Western civilisation'
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I think they are prone to mis-remember how centrist the actual 2019 campaign was because of how quickly that was cast aside in favour demonising judges and expelling moderate MPs later in the year.
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I'm not that old, and my university cohort was full of young Tories. There is nothing remotely similar in my kids' years.
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Also (and I hadn't noticed this), very grateful to the BBC Music Magazine for probably the only time that I'll ever appear next to Clint Eastwood....
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How many under 50 are voting Reform?
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The call has ben made
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Isn't Moonraker the one where he's office-bound for the first third, counting down missions to retirement (he reckons 15 more max) whilst sitting on committees to root out homosexuals amid post-Philby paranoia?
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Ferguson has gone on quite the journey since I saw him lecture in 1994 about how Germany in the 30s failed for lack of a fiscally-responsible, constitutionally conservative centre-right party.
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Thank you!!
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Thank you! 🙏. Rebecca did an amazing job of distilling a very long interview into something beautifully clear and focused.
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Thank you - though I can't take credit for the sub-editor's choice!
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Thank you!!!
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Cheers Clive!
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Thanks Patrick!
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Probably worth keeping tabs on his great-nephews under the circumstances….
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On the other side it’s really noticeable that (in East London at least) the biggest flags and loudest shouts of ‘Come on my Son!’ emerge from the houses of my second- and third-generation neighbours.
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(and to be clear, they’re pretty damn disturbing)
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Lots of the photos were in an exhibition about 20 years ago; none though as disturbing as his letter to Alice’s mother complaining about her insistence on being there for the photo sessions as it spoiled the intimacy….
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It’s also (irony alert) basically the thesis of Petersen’s book.
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And FWIW this is largely what I feel about Jane Austen. I can see and appreciate the skill, it just leaves me cold.
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My kids are astonished that anyone listens to them at less than 1.5x speed (Podcasts, not Dvorak)
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My PhD was on 18thC London and I occasionally have to remind myself that we gave Catholics the vote and allowed them to live in London and own transport.
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My tuba teacher made me learn all the main excerpts of the Shostakovich symphonies. “I can’t stand the music at all; but I know a genius when I’m playing him.” Really important early lesson on the difference between critical judgment and taste.