#BREAKING : New York Philharmonic has released the following email sent to the orchestra's board, musicians and staff by their president, Gary Ginstling.

To summarize: New York Philharmonic has retained Jenner & Block to investigate the orchestra's recent culture. The results will be released publicly.

In case anyone was still in doubt:

Israeli minister Ben Gvir calls for execution of Palestinian prisoners to ease overcrowding
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Looking for writers from #India who write on culture and society, have have experience in long form journalism. Looking for well-written, researched, unique stories from the country. Stories should be rooted to the land and people you're writing about, state no bar.

Nathan Trout im a fan of baggy jeans. my first contact with fashion was admiring guys like this in dance clubs. this has always looked stylish to me, even during the last 20 years of slim fit. to me, this is style boiled down to its pure essence.

OMG they look so much better!

Lee Jackson This might be what I hate most about the Spectator crowd: this idea they have that they're scurrilous coffee-house rogues, instead of just twats.

Why are towering temple gopurams not a thing in North India? Many conspiracy theories claim that it was because of Muslim invaders and blind destruction.

The actual answer is much, much weirder: vernacular songs and medieval middle-class tax evasion.

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A powerful university press editor once commented to a friend of mine — at a major conference, where I was presenting a paper as a PhD student — that I was 'slutty', apparently on the basis that I had a tiny diamond nose stud.

Great. I just clicked on a hidden reply on here on a thread about teaching, and it was porn without a sensitivity screen. I am sitting on the sofa beside my 13-year-old. (Yes, I know he's probably seen it before, that's not the point.)

In the pre-Musk era this never happened.

The most rapidly organised book I've ever edited is at final proof stage. If you want to read accessible essays from some of the best known expert historians about some of the most controversial aspects of Britain's colonial history, instead of listening only to what political

English written in Persian script! It'd take a while to get used to reading it (Hindi/Urdu-wale know what I mean (chocolate in Devanagari, anyone) -- but it's legible and works!

Nathen has a really good point! I would LOVE to put on a northern HistFest. Just need a venue! Do any want to chat? I’m a Cestrian, so Storyhouse?

Can we please abandon the utterly irrational pretence that all schools in Brent - and inner London generally - are tragic failures except Michaela Community School? Schools in Brent get excellent outcomes. As do schools all over inner London. It's not 1988.

In a sermon in August 1958, Martin Luther King Jr observed: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” 1/2

Wow!

#TeamHaydn

Classical music #metoo

All my stories are decades old, but nothing has changed it seems.

1, God knows. Burger bun?
2. Dressing gown.
3. Alleyway?
4. Crust.