NEW: A candidate for the Reform Party in Scotland has been suspended for making pro-cannibalism comments. Iris Leask, a computer company director, called for meat-eaters to “eat other humans” and said humanity should be “obliterated”.

About last night.... In around 1995 my mum took me to hear a recital at the Birmingham Town Hall. Andreas Scholl was the soloist and I remember being totally entranced by the beauty and artistry of his singing. A few years later his "Ombra ma fu" disc came out...

you think you're dramatic but then you see pictures of elizabeth taylor watching a boxing match in 1960

I don't like large majorities. But this idea that a Labour landslide would remove checks and balances is wrong. There are no checks and balances. With a majority of 80, the Tories could pretty much do what they like. A majority of 250 really isn't meaningfully different.

9 Jun 1975: I do not normally read Cosmopolitan, the magazine for randy housewives, but we had a clergyman staying in the house and thought it only right to offer him the choice.

My friend Luke

Not being at Aldeburgh is annoying me a lot this year

#OTD 10th June 1986: Network SouthEast launch day: one of the most ambitious British railway rebranding projects ever. That day, 14 stations (painted overnight, still drying) and 14 trains (one per route) had a secret repaint and went on display; a simplified map unifying 930 of

I love this piece, I remember hearing a performance in Dartington in 1995 and being completely transfixed. Lucky everyone who was there last night

when the page is going to press and you need a headline

Cutting managers in the NHS tends to be popular but in reality is catastrophic: the NHS is chronically under-managed and it contributes to delays, chaos, mistakes and clinicians wasting huge amounts of time on administrative tasks.

Do you want to go for supper at Andrew Edmunds?

It is nice I must say

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Nice to find another York Bowen fan

The closing measures from Oliver Knussen’s ever so exquisite Horn Concerto, op. 25 (1994/1995) - one of his many pristine masterpieces. Remembering this wonderful man on what would have been his 72nd birthday. 🧡

Shopping has changed so much in the last 60 years. Once upon a time you could sweep into a department store, select attractive dresses to set off your titian hair & tell the clerk to charge it to the account of your father Carson Drew, the well-known lawyer. Now we just go online