My hotel has BBC1. PJs, facemask, herbal tea, TRAITORS.

Re: my previous post - I'm twelve pages and two beers in. Tell me it gets better?

Reading Roger Scruton for work and 3, THREE paragraphs in and I'm already angry. This is going to be hard going.

Guten Rutsch, liebe Schmetterlinge!

Do I get a pat on the head for handing in a tablet to lost property? Having almost physical reaction to the very thought of losing mine. SO MANY SCORES, SO LITTLE BACKING UP...

Very glad of my seat reservation - standing room only on the 5.5hr train to Amsterdam...

I've had my final session with my coach in Berlin this afternoon, this morning I taught my last singing lesson for a while and right now I'm going back to my old job to taste some whisky. Big Girl pants ready for Monday when rehearsals start for Tristan at DNO..

I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises

Whenever I open Bluesky I hear "I hope not sporadically" in my head. I am sorry I'm not here more, I still haven't mastered (mistressed?) it.

I love long flights for watching films I would otherwise never see/catching up. Today's line-up was a possible GOAT: Luther: Never Too Much, Sinners & But I'm A Cheerleader. All solid gold.

BER Brandenburg still remains bottom of my list of airports. It took nearly 15 mins TO GET OFF THE TRAIN PLATFORM. now I have been queuing for nearly 20 mins even though I checked in online and I only need to drop a bag.i have maybe got through 1/3 of the queue.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

interviewer: your resume says you lose focus easily me: yes interviewer: yes what me: yes please

I’m with Gary here…

It is so mad what I get to do as a job. I sang on stage at Bayreuth yesterday.

A final beer... Or so. Bamberg is as pretty as every clickbait headline suggests, and Bamberger Zwiebeln are insanely delicious. So happy to hit the smoked beer I adore.

"I love maths". LUCY BRONZE I LOVE YOU!

OH COME ON

Took my one chance to get to a cinema to watch The Ballad of Wallis Island today, so only now catching up with the tennis. I am feeling many feelings about the film, still.

It's so hot in Toronto that an older man crossing the street beside me just said, with a level of sarcasm even I found impressive, "If I die of heat stroke halfway across the road will you drag my corpse to the other side? My family will wanna identify me" and we are now best, albeit sweaty, friends

This #Norrie match is positively Wagnerian. But then I would say that.

RIP Brian Wilson. He wrote so many good songs, many of them in the 1970s, when he seemed irreparably damaged. Even at his most ragged, he was capable of transcending his circumstances. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O7Z...

I'm in BAYREUTH, BABY! So excited to walk back up the green hill tomorrow. I am a very lucky Valkyrie.

I don't know if Stansted or Ryanair is at fault, but pulling "boarding" and making everyone wait on a sweaty staircase when there isn't even a plane yet is not cool.

I have to catch a train in the morning before I am usually awake. How close to the wire will my adhd brain force me to get? Why can't I just merrily get up with my alarm?

Not at my musical hero's funeral today, but I will be at a service for him in London on Friday. Distracting myself with a coaching, because after all his training, and all these years, I really do sing for a living.

I am going home! Via Hamburg because getting flights to Berlin is ridiculous. I hope my cat can forgive me.

Watch my play on line - only available this week orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ben...

Damn, this was impressive. I'm kind of envious someone has the motivation to put something like this together. So much research, planning and editing just to create a video (that presumably can't even be monitized due to copyright). But hey, I got enjoyment from it. And that's priceless.

I'm being very patchy here and I'm sorry, but I am definitely not following all the right people yet and I have limited bandwidth for all the American politics in my current feed. Any recommendations welcome!

People in London, I went to see Run At It Backstage yesterday, and there's still several chances for you to see a play or two today, run at it, innit! www.flyingcoloursproductions.com/-digital-pro...

OK, so what is the new perfume in London that just had me stagger off a tube train choking? Because that was terrifying.

Toria very kindly shared this, but I suppose I should too. If you've ever wondered about me and my singing, he is me babbling a bit about it

Congratulations to Bruce. Obviously disappointed. We heard again and again from voters that the Green vision resonated with them, but that I ‘didn’t seem to know my party’s policies’ and ‘hadn’t been to Canada since 2021’.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Very sweaty Walküre rehearsal this morning. It's always a bit of a shock after sitting watching stage rehearsals #UnderstudyProblems

On the train to work and was going to listen to Wagner (for gentle passive memorisation) and instead got sucked into listening to Teenage Fanclub. OK, just one more track...

Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK

Absolutely glorious Arabella at Deutsche Oper Berlin this evening. Jennifer Davies could sing the phone book and I would cry like a baby.

tl;dr Do read this though. It’s important

The argument that “free speech” is somehow philosophically foundational to tech bros is just a way of saying “if we put any limits at all on horrible people, they’ll only go elsewhere, and then someone else will get a slice of all that lovely horrible people money.”

There are so many reasons to abandon Spotify, will this one be the tipping point? (NB I do not use Spotify)

i’m going to blame a “co-ordinated cyber attack” the next time i shit myself

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

Just to make up for only writing when it's hideous - Gatwick North Terminal is so chilled right now. I managed bag drop and security (now blissfully leave-everything-in-bag) in 6 mins flat.

As a nervous writer I came down from Glasgow to shadow Radio Comedy for a week.I was put in the hands of a funny,smart and idiosyncratic producer who was generous with his time, wise in his advice and very happy to show me the ropes.They were extremely good ropes because the producer was Bill Dare.

I feel Britain and France can't tell their awful husband they're leaving him to his face because he might blow up, and they haven't anywhere sorted to stay yet, but they're squirreling money away and putting things in a bag.