Mark Berry
@boulezian.bsky.social
Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
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When I was monitoring FB etc groups around Brexit, the one thing pro and anti groups all had in common was racist & misogynistic memes and other posts about Diane Abbott. She was loathed by the centre and the right and whatever the reasons they gave if challenged, it was always misogynoir behind it
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When I was monitoring FB etc groups around Brexit, the one thing pro and anti groups all had in common was racist & misogynistic memes and other posts about Diane Abbott. She was loathed by the centre and the right and whatever the reasons they gave if challenged, it was always misogynoir behind it
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the bigotry is LOUD. shame on the BBC.
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
the bigotry is LOUD. shame on the BBC.
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🚨BREAKING -- A new UN report has found Israel's annihilation of Gaza has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🚨BREAKING -- A new UN report has found Israel's annihilation of Gaza has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
I don't need an 'interactive game' to tell me I am not a plagiarist or CV-falsifier, I have not taken money and clothes from 'Lord' Alli, I do not tell lies about Jeremy Corbyn, I have not killed the elderly or impoverished children, I would immediately rejoin the Customs Union and Single Market...
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I don't need an 'interactive game' to tell me I am not a plagiarist or CV-falsifier, I have not taken money and clothes from 'Lord' Alli, I do not tell lies about Jeremy Corbyn, I have not killed the elderly or impoverished children, I would immediately rejoin the Customs Union and Single Market...
Proud of a property lawyer friend who, asked by students at a university society talk, whether London property was ‘still a good investment’ replied no, because to regard houses and flats as an investment rather than somewhere to live is immoral. Not the answer they expected, she said.
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Proud of a property lawyer friend who, asked by students at a university society talk, whether London property was ‘still a good investment’ replied no, because to regard houses and flats as an investment rather than somewhere to live is immoral. Not the answer they expected, she said.
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“The organiser of Pécs Pride, the only Hungarian LGBTQ+ Pride event outside of Budapest, could face criminal charges for defying the country’s ban on Pride.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
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Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Hungarian Pride organiser could face criminal charges and prison sentence
The organiser of the only Hungarian Pride event outside of Budapest is under criminal investigation for defying the country's Pride ban.
gcn.ie
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“The organiser of Pécs Pride, the only Hungarian LGBTQ+ Pride event outside of Budapest, could face criminal charges for defying the country’s ban on Pride.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
British Theatre Before and After Covid
www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X.
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...
over.nos.nl
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X.
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
I see the despicable Hakeem Jeffries and Ritchie Torres are among this number.
Full list of Democrats voting to condemn socialism as Zohran Mamdani comes to town
The House of Representatives voted on a resolution condemning socialism ahead of President Trump's meeting with Zohran Mamdani.
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I see the despicable Hakeem Jeffries and Ritchie Torres are among this number.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Can we ban sociopaths from public transport? Once again in the 'quiet zone'; multiple selfish *?!??* conducting interminable, banal 'conversations' on speaker phone. No one should be doing so anywhere on a train, let alone immediately beneath a sign requesting them not to do so. So sick of this.
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Can we ban sociopaths from public transport? Once again in the 'quiet zone'; multiple selfish *?!??* conducting interminable, banal 'conversations' on speaker phone. No one should be doing so anywhere on a train, let alone immediately beneath a sign requesting them not to do so. So sick of this.
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Prescott agrees that Robbie Gibb is a friend. Agrees that Gibb was one of four person panel who appointed him. Asked if he was would disclose any comms between them before the interview “That’s quite a precedent to set” he says
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Prescott agrees that Robbie Gibb is a friend. Agrees that Gibb was one of four person panel who appointed him. Asked if he was would disclose any comms between them before the interview “That’s quite a precedent to set” he says
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Prescott says the Panorama programme was aggressively anti-Trump. Neutral and experienced journalists who have seen the programme found it admirably balanced
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Prescott says the Panorama programme was aggressively anti-Trump. Neutral and experienced journalists who have seen the programme found it admirably balanced
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It was the first production I ever saw at the Oslo opera house, I believe. Certainly one of the first. Absolutely life-changing.
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It was the first production I ever saw at the Oslo opera house, I believe. Certainly one of the first. Absolutely life-changing.
Gibb quoted in The Guardian. 'I don’t see I’ve not done anything wrong.' Interesting double negative.
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Gibb says speculation of BBC boardroom coup is ‘ridiculous charge’ and he will not resign – latest updates
BBC board member, a former spin doctor for Theresa May, dismisses suggestion in questioning by MPs
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Gibb quoted in The Guardian. 'I don’t see I’ve not done anything wrong.' Interesting double negative.
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
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Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
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Have been using Stefan Herheim's extraordinary, death-haunted Norwegian Opera production of La bohème as a thread running my new 'Opera on Stage' module. Even now, I see, understand, and feel something new on every occasion. No other staging I have seen comes close.
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Have been using Stefan Herheim's extraordinary, death-haunted Norwegian Opera production of La bohème as a thread running my new 'Opera on Stage' module. Even now, I see, understand, and feel something new on every occasion. No other staging I have seen comes close.
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⚠️BE WARNED. Charter cities are coming to Brexit ravaged UK, this was the whole reason why the Tories' and Labour colluded on installing deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
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Suffolk's Forest City and the Ghost of Próspera: Why Britain Should Learn From Honduras
What happens when libertarian billionaires build “startup cities” promising prosperity but delivering corporate sovereignty? Ask the fishermen of Crawfish Rock.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
⚠️BE WARNED. Charter cities are coming to Brexit ravaged UK, this was the whole reason why the Tories' and Labour colluded on installing deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
open.substack.com/pub/european...
If the Government were remotely serious about helping 'working people', let alone others, it would immediately do all it could to rejoin the Customs Union and Single Market, tax wealth rather than income, and cease its attacks on higher education. It is not, so will not; believe none of its lies.
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If the Government were remotely serious about helping 'working people', let alone others, it would immediately do all it could to rejoin the Customs Union and Single Market, tax wealth rather than income, and cease its attacks on higher education. It is not, so will not; believe none of its lies.