Please vote.

What is ‘happy’ about a country that is sliding into totalitarianism, BBC Music Magazine? Or, at best, a presidential election between two candidates who both exhibit symptoms of dementia?

Attlee-Wilson-Blair-Starmer!

The arts in Britain need Thangam Debbonaire!

“Classical music is incredibly inclusive. What makes it exclusive is the lack of music education.” Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason 🎶❤️

In the wake of Labour’s wonderful victory and a certain amount of negativity about the turn-out it is worth considering whether not voting is some people’s version of tactical voting, the new speciality of the British electorate.

Sending a new score out into the world is like packing your child’s kit for camp: did I put in enough socks? will they find the soap? will they use it?

Dodgy ref!

HatHut will release Christopher Fox’s ‘Dissenting Voices’ next year! Find out all about the release featuring Kathryn Williams, Dominic Lash, and Elisabeth Flunger Christopher Fox Dr Kathryn Williams Dominic Lash Akademie der Künste whatsnew.composersedition.com/christopher-fo…

An incredible legacy with a record 35 Tour de France stage wins. A truly brilliant sportsman. Thank you for everything, Mark.

SOS call for Goldsmiths, University of London Leadership. The savings gained at end of July will be spent, and then some, by October. By then, it will have been cheaper to do nothing. It is illogical. Making big decisions in a panic never leads to good outcomes. A final call: please think again.

A beautiful concert last night: Ex Corde Vocal Ensemble singing pre-Reformation English music. There are compositional skills in that music that we just don’t have any longer.

The rich linguistic loam of this sceptred isle.

In the 1968 Olympics, the first Games to which I paid any attention, Britain got 13 medals, the USSR 91 and East Germany 25. History, eh?

Beautiful! The self-effacing genius of Luc Ferrari.

My new mission: to turn Twitter into an oasis of polite, informed discussion. I will achieve this by blocking and reporting anyone I find behaving badly. So far it’s going well.

Finale and Sibelius upgrades didn’t make anyone a better composer.

Scottish Cultural Sector/Funding: It is revealing that lots of the immediate support offered to cultural workers as their income stream crumbles is mentoring, listening circles or support to scrabble together applications for what will be an even more competitive funding round.

Musicological twitterati! Which would you use if you were discussing the music of Éliane Radigue?