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David Nice
@davidnice.bsky.social
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Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · Nov 23
Giving it a try on here after low-key interactions on Mastodon - excellent for finding out about the world, but I missed most of the musical folk I left behind on Xitter last year. Good to see some famiiar faces already.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 11h
He just spoke sense. You see how starved we've all been of it?
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 11h
You don't 'lose' the Nobel Prize. It's not a competition.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 18h
Giacomettis also good. Such a civilised city, Zurich.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
The Great Satan...
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
The ghoulish surgery of Plastic Noem should be part of it too. And Crazy Eyes Patel.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
Not entirely. The Hamas massacre has to be part of the equation. And Netanyahu enabled it.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
How does Starmer feel about his indulgence of Pres Pizda now?
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
That took ages!
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
That was ages ago, right?
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
Of course the UK government COULD get out of its self-made disaster by cancelling the ban now that there's a deal of sorts re Gaza. But it won't, will it?
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
Sure has. But musicians are still going there all the time. Few have the moral standards of Christian Tetzlaff...
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
No, that's good pondlife. I'm referring to President Pizda and the constant crowding of the Nobel discourse with reference to his 'disappointment'.
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★★★ Hopes for Niamh O’Sullivan only partly fulfilled, though much good singing throughout finds @davidnice.bsky.social reviewing Carmen, English National Opera www.theartsdesk.com/opera/carmen...
Carmen, English National Opera review - not quite dangerous
“Safe” is a word used far too often in ENO’s bizarre new version of a programme, full of uncredited articles, at least two of which look as if they’re AI generated. Everything intimacy director Haruko...
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 19h
Goebbels-Miller must be known as Stockingmask Head from now on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine
In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
Please stop feeding the trolls.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
Funny, even if there WERE an organisation called Antifa, it would mean anti-fascist, which means fascists are against it, got it yet?
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
Exactly. Shows Pres Pizda is getting the attention he wants regardless.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
Can we leave the pondlife references out of it?
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
It was hardly 'furious', was it? You just kept up the voice of reason. That's all you need to do for the next few years.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
Wrong way round. President Pizda is a microbe, the worthy recipient is a giant.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
'Years', dammit.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
No guarantee it will be over. The USA may well be, though. Sorry for you.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
OK, I see this pond life just got elected.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
This needs some explanation.
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 20h
Typically dumbass headline. Fuck off, Fox. How's your announcer's plan to euthanise the homeless by force going?
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