Albert Weale

@albertpweale.bsky.social

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Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL. Brighton born and bred. No longer resident, but still liberal. Expressed views mine only.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 21h

Explore our archive of images via the Vaughan Williams Foundation website 📷

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d

La Saliera: gold & enamel salt cellar 1543, masterpiece made for François I, by Benvenuto Cellini, Italian Mannerist goldsmith & sculptor, died in Florence #OTD 1571. La Saliera featured in Balzac’s novel La Peau de Chagrin; Cellini inspired Dumas’s novel L’Orfèvre du Roi.
Kunsthistorisches Museum

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 1d

In this webinar, produced by the Music Teachers Association, Dr Steven Berryman is joined by academic Dr Jonathan Clinch, Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, to take an analytical look at Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge.

Perfect for those doing a Music A Level! 🎓

The Hibbins Series: 'On Wenlock Edge' by Ralph Vaughan Willams

In partnership with the RVW Trust, Dr Steven Berryman is joined by academic Dr Jonathan Clinch, Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, taking an analytical look at On Wenlock…

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 2d

Discover an extraordinary archive of pictures relating to the life and work of Ralph Vaughan Williams via our website.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3d

Self-portrait with two pupils, oil on canvas (with preparatory chalk study), exhibited at the Salon of 1785 by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), first female artist to set up studio for her students at the Louvre; member of Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.
Met Museum, New York

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3d

Cogito, ergo sum. René Descartes, great French mathematician & philosopher, pioneer of analytic geometry, died #OTD 1650, profoundly influenced Western thinkers including Kant, Leibniz, Newton, Hegel.
Sorbonne University, Paris

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 3d

Man Offering Money to a Young Woman, also called The Proposition, 1631, by #JudithLeyster (Dutch, 1609–1660), who died #otd, Feb 10. Held at the @mauritshuis.bsky.social, mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/t... #womenartists #artherstory

The description of this painting on the website reads, “By the light of an oil lamp, a young woman is bowed over her needlework, with her feet on a foot warmer. A man is trying to attract her attention with a handful of coins – he wants to buy her love. But the woman does not respond to his offer, and works on undisturbed. She is a model of virtuousness.” The Wikipedia description of the same work reads, “It depicts a woman, sewing by candlelight, as a man leans over her, touching her right shoulder with his left hand. He is offering her coins in his right hand, but she is apparently ignoring the offer and concentrating intently upon her sewing. As we see the female protagonist (seemingly) ignore the advances of her suitor, this painting has been considered to potentially be a feminist work. The man wears dark clothing, and the dark tones as well as his shadow cast behind him and across his face from the angle of the candlelight give him a looming appearance. In contrast, the woman is lit fully in the face by the candlelight, and wears a white blouse.”

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 3d

The Vaughan Williams Foundation offers a range of funding opportunities.

💻 Find out more here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/funding/

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 3d

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 3d

RVW wrote The Lark Ascending in 1914. Its premiere was delayed to 1921.

It's inspired by George Meredith's poem describing a lark soaring and singing an unbroken melody, reaching the heavens. The composer uses the violin soloist to represent both the song and flight of the lark.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d

First class carriage & second class carriage
Watercolour, ink & chalk drawings, 1864, by Honoré Daumier, influential French artist & printmaker, known for unsparing political & legal caricatures, he depicted contemporary life with realism. He died #OTD 1879.
Walters Art Museum

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d

Art in art: self-portrait painting fiddler of her work Merry Company, 1633, by Judith Leyster, Dutch Baroque artist, one of first women artists admitted to Haarlem painters’ guild, died #OTD 1660. Many of her works were later attributed to Frans Hals or Jan Molenaer.
NGADC | Private Collection

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

"After encountering Jesus in his poverty of spirit, his meekness and simplicity of heart, his hunger and thirst for justice, which unlocks mercy and peace as powers of transformation and reconciliation, those who would distance themselves from all this seem bland and dull." #PopeLeoXIV

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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 4d

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense. They're more productive being with other fellow human beings"

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 4d

The trajectory from, “Trump will give Ukraine to Tomahawks to attack Russia” to “Trump has starved Ukraine of Patriots to help Russia” is the single greatest example of the failure of people to understand what Trump is and has always been.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 6d

“Flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.”(Ruskin)
Nocturne: Blue & Gold - Old Battersea Bridge, c 1872, by James McNeill Whistler, avant-garde American artist, born #OTD 1834. Pioneer of Aesthetic Movement & proponent of Art for Art, inspired characters in Proust & Henry James.
Tate Britain

Whistler sued Ruskin for libel over his criticism of his Nocturne series exhibition & a notorious court case ensued. Whistler won the case but was awarded one farthing in damages.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 6d

John Ruskin, Victorian art critic & reformer, champion of JMW Turner, author of The Stones of Venice, born #OTD 1819.
Portrait beside Glen Finglas in Scotland, 1854, by John Everett Millais
Ashmolean Museum Oxford

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 6d

Still Life with Flowers & Fruit, c 1735, by Jan van Huysum, preeminent 18th Century Dutch flower artist; died #OTD 1749; known for loose arrangements of flowers & fruit in terracotta urns, with roses, tulips, drops of dew, insects, luscious peaches & grapes, painted with intensity.
Rijksmuseum

Jan van Huysum’s green pigments have developed a distinctive bluish tinge with age.

Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · 6d

When winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · 6d

Have looked at questions and responses. Pretty well all invite the acquiescent response set of ‘too little’. When everything is a priority, nothing is. Pity, they could be a serious outfit.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d

The difficulty is that this is not "a simple problem".

There is no simple route to "growth, jobs and rising living standards" in an age of tariff wars, disruptive new technologies, climate change, war in Ukraine, Brexit & Trump.

The pretence that these things *were* easy has done Labour real harm

Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social · 6d

Our new polling with More in Common exposes a simple problem in British politics.

Voters want growth, jobs and rising living standards.

But they don’t think politicians are focused on any of them.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d

Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social · 6d

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 6d

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 7d

”It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...”
Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist born #OTD 1812; George Orwell noted “no English writer has written better about childhood...”
Portrait by Daniel Maclise, 1839, National Portrait Gallery, London | Cartoon Tom Gauld
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The Christian Left @the-christian-left.bsky.social · 7d

Trump Condemned Over 'Disgusting' Video Of Obamas As Primates: 'There's No Bottom' — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office called on "every single Republican" to denounce the president over the clip.

Trump Condemned Over 'Racist' And 'Disgusting' Video Of Obamas: 'There's No Bottom'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office called on "every single Republican" to denounce the president over the clip.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 7d

“Sue [Gray] didn’t want him near anything …She could probably see that all of this would happen.”

‘Pestering for a role’: how Mandelson talked his way back into the Labour fold

Officials, MPs and other insiders recall a need for clarity and Blair-era frisson before election – even if Sue Gray was wary

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7d

My weekly email to my Republican congressman…

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Ian O'Flynn @delibnet.bsky.social · 7d

MLK on 'racism'.

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Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 7d

Even the dog doesn't want to be in this pic

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 7d

📻 This Sunday on BBC Radio 3, at 7.45pm - the Sunday Feature: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Fenland Music.

Robert Macfarlane, Alyson Tapp and Caroline Davison talk to poet Jade Cuttle about the musical inspiration Ralph Vaughan Williams found in the fens.