This is really dangerous territory for Farage. He's being pushed towards crankery by the radicalisation of online support.

At this event I will be talking to singer Adriana Festeu and Christopher White, Head of Opera at the RAM, about the opera-elitism stereotype and how things differ between Britain and Germany. Free to attend and open to all but you need to book a space.

Genuinely don't think there's been another technology industry in history that has simultaneously claimed such massive economic importance while also blaming users for all of its flaws

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Bar staff, cleaners, stage managers and wig-makers are among the creative workers to be spotlighted in a new photography series presented by Sky Arts, which aims to celebrate “those who keep the UK’s arts world alive around the clock”. www.thestage.co.uk/news/unsung-...

Autism doesn’t need to be cured.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up. C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.” allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

Some of you may enjoy this comparison.

Vote with your dollars.

Brexit: the unforgivably selfish arseholery of those who lied about what it really meant for the country while dodging the cost, hassle and restrictions they inflicted on everyone else. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

For God’s sake people! Do not post your children’s’ photos online. This isn’t victim blaming, it’s simple common sense.

this exists it is called thinking

Teaching is always a two way process. Today I learned that “Try to channel The Fonz” is not a note which will inspire anything other than bemusement in an Estonian millennial, for multiple perfectly understandable reasons.

It’s not just the BBC though. We all suffer from thinking America is reasonably similar to us, because we use the same words for things.

Palju õnne #Rahvusooper - 119 today 🎂🍾🥂

Politics is increasingly divided between those who are comfortable with the complex systems of modernity and those who would rather burn the world down than accept that things are complicated now.

Wilfred Owen was gay, a poet, he died in the trenches, and he was brimming with empathy. But empathy for those without power, or whose power is stripped from them by the machinery of war and politics. That was the focus of his war poetry, and i think he knew his shit a hell of a lot better.

Taking the temperature down requires the government to actually do something about the rise of hate and extremism.

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

And this has happened *without* a massive sea change of actual popular opinion in favour of these thugs; the elite flip has not been responding to the public, but to social media

It's a tad concerning that columnists who five years ago would've condemned today's marchers as racist thugs, are today implicitly or explicitly supportive

Great to have the theatre gym available here at the Rahvusooper, although slightly intimidating when the corps of the Rahvusballett turn up halfway through a singer’s workout. Good call by them to bring a boombox and the Rocky soundtrack though. #eyeofthetiger

Today's further thoughts on the artist and global politics: paulcareyjones.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/p...

Spellbinding to hear the chorus of the Rahvusooper throwing their immense skillset at Peter Grimes this morning. 🇪🇪🎶❤️

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

So much of this is about the delivery of the message rather than the content. People feel ignored, judged, or condescended to when they have questions - and when experts answer them in good faith, it restores trust.

Correcting the reports. UK withdrawal from the ECHR absolutely breaches the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...

To put this another way: you can't stop it from making things up because *literally all it does is make things up* It just generates likely text. Sometimes what's likely is also true. Sometimes it's not. This means it has the same relationship to truth as a magic 8-ball. Literally.

Tere Tallinn! 🇪🇪🎶❤️

The flip side is also that by focusing on net migration, the UK counts its own brain drain of young talent *as a positive* in its own numbers. It's like the economic version of a death cult

These guys can sing. 🇪🇪 🎶

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir at the Arvo Part prom. One of the best things I've heard all year. Absolutely stunning. Wonderful voices.

This is without any evidence or data to support it. Cancer existed before COVID vaccines. The rise in early onset cancers- going on for decades- is not linked to COVID vaccines. Follow scientists & medical researchers. Not ppl selling snake oil. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Another serving of nourishing food for thought from Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social Performative Hypocrisy 3: The Apolitical Artist paulcareyjones.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/p...

Covid vaccine guidance from France: COVID-19 vaccination is free for everyone. The time after the last vaccination or COVID-19 infection is at least 6 months, regardless of the person's situation. This period is reduced to 3 months for immunocompromised people and people aged 80 years and over.

The London press fawns on Farage. He could loudly break wind at a funeral and they’d run a think-piece on how elegantly he flatulates My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

The problem for those who make performative cruelty the centrepiece of their governing strategy is that you have to endlessly escalate he spectacle or your audience gets bored and starts to notice that for all your vicious sadism against the Other, you're not actually making THEIR lives any better.

'The first of its kind to track sentiment before and after the 12 May 2025 speech, the report by the Public Opinion Analytics Lab identifies a significant electoral cost to the Prime Minister’s remarks: support for Labour fell among its erstwhile voters by 4 percentage points.'

Good article.

Today's further thoughts on the artist and global politics: paulcareyjones.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/p...

#WotanWednesday - the top of Act 2 of #DieWalküre from the 2024 Longborough #RingCycle youtu.be/YW7ALqHxZb0?... #Wagner #Wotan #opera

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

Protests, curtain calls, and disrepute clauses - some more thoughts on artists and global politics: paulcareyjones.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/p...

Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.