Emmets Garden #Bluebells #Kent

Excellent news as RSV vaccine in pregnancy protects babies from developing RSV and massively reduces risk of getting seriously ill and needing Hospitalisation

Renoir and Love: gorgeous. #MuséeDOrsay #Renoir

Lovely recital of English song yesterday by Anna Markland and James Gilchrist. Warlock, Gurney, Finzi, Clarke, Wilkinson 🎶 #MusicInLondon #WigmoreHall

Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation over the dead Christ. #PinacotecaDiBrera #Milan

Horrified by the antisemitic attack in our city. Antisemitism is vile and has no place here. Solidarity with the Jewish community in Golders Green - and with our communities across the country who will be feeling this today.

Cracking concert with Tom Bullard conducting @nonsuchsingers.bsky.social at St James Sussex Gardens. Edmund Jolliffe's 'Choral Reflections' CD launch, plus @owainpark.bsky.social 'Phos Hilaron', Ed Rex, Liz Dilnot and Jonathan Dove. Choir in good form: a joyful evening 🎶

huge thanks to whichever of y'all music nerds made this site for planning the perfect commute

@nonsuchsingers.bsky.social celebrating our latest CD with a launch concert on Saturday 21 March at St James, Sussex Gardens 🎶 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la... #MusicInLondon #ChoralMusic #LiveMusic

War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, narrated by Jonathan Keeble. Chapter 193: young Petya Rostov has joined up, full of patriotic fervour after hearing Emperor Alexander speak 😬 Still engrossed with this reading: slow but satisfying. #LeoTolstoy #Audiobook 📚

Good day at the National Gallery 😍

How long are we going to hear about “legitimate debates and concerns about immigration?” It’s time we told the truth and deal with it. Net migration is low, we need more migrants, we are an ageing population. Highly skilled and low paid jobs are dependent on migrants. We need safe and legal routes.

I love the "I wish Bluesky had more features so it could be better than twitter" posts. It shows how shallow and insipid people are. The fact that Bluesky isn't Twitter makes it far superior.

Thank you to the person who recommended #AMonthInTheCountry. It's been on my list for years, you prompted me to read it and I *love* it. Such a lively, natural voice, as if he's talking to his best mate. #Booksky 📚

Long-awaited visit, postponed from 2020. #Ghent #VanEyck #MysticLamb

#GérardDavid #MuséeDesBeauxArts #Brussels

Happy anniversary sweetheart ❤️❤️

Loved this interpretation of The Dream of Gerontius and there's some beautiful singing

A walk round the lake and a picnic in the Chinese boathouse #HeverCastle #Kent

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas is coming 🤶🎶 Big fun in a good cause.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

Jay Kelly: enjoyed this for gorgeous scenery & several beautiful performances. Transitions between memory and the present are elegant and evocative. #Film #JayKelly

www.instagram.com/p/DSM4fbTCez... Tonight Going to be beautiful 🎶 Come and join us #Carols #MusicInLondon #LiveMusic

political science

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

Bal du Moulin de la Galette, 1876: Sunday afternoon in Montmartre, Impressionist masterpiece, ‘monument précieux de la vie parisienne’, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died #OTD 1919; admired for its fluid brushstrokes & dappled light, the painting was owned by Gustave Caillebotte. @museeorsay.bsky.social

Really positive step to reduce transmission of HIV in UK with targeted action for those who may be less likely to seek support

Hunt in the Forest, c 1470, rare Renaissance nocturnal landscape with vibrant colours & novel linear perspective; tempera & oil, with traces of gold on panel, by Paolo Uccello, died in Florence 1475; apprentice of Ghiberti, inspired Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer. Ashmolean Museum

Ghirlandaio Nativity at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, UK. This one is thought to be mainly by the hand of Domenico Ghirlandaio himself.

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Proof of cat

I’ve got a measles joke—but if you’re vaccinated I’m near certain you won’t get it.

Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo. Musée du Louvre

#PinacotecaAmbrosiana #Milan #LeonardoDaVinci

Are you a clinician who wants to do a PhD? Come to @crick.ac.uk (you can even come to my lab).

Varenna ferry, from Bellagio

Born With Teeth. It's so good, we had to go again. #Theatre #RSC #London #LizDuffyAdams

An experiment: If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.

Tried to pay for postage to the US using #RoyalMail online. Can't do it without accepting all cookies and they 'require' recipient's email and phone number. I don't want tracking. It's a birthday card, no need for her to know when it will be delivered. Outrageous abuse of personal data. No thanks.

Domenico Ghirlandaio 😍 #NationalGallery #London

But you can't deny that the cartoonishness has been across the board. Sometimes cartoons are very entertaining!

A sobering but massively powerful piece. Our youngest's girlfriend is black and was due to travel back to London yesterday via Waterloo. She asked to stay here in relative, rural security because she was scared of the people on that march. This is not a drill open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long. Regulatory failure at its worst. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Duties of a Doctor (General Medical Council) imply that giving out false or misleading information that could lead to harm might be grounds for removing a doctor from the Medical Register.

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

Morning, Coniston shore path. #LakeDistrictWalks