After his career as a jazz musician, Spike Hughes was a composer, journalist, and broadcaster. While working, he covered the ceremony at the Cenotaph for much of the 1930s. I came across his work while researching something else entirely, but I wanted to share this, from 1938.

Just extraordinary

Warm, serious, not so serious, courageous, and often revelatory. Congratulations @quietriotpod.bsky.social you are the pinnacle of pods

Putting this together was actually a HUGE amount of fun. Feel free to share it - here or on whatever platform and with whichever friend or family member you think would enjoy our vibe and the gorgeous community we have become.

There were some ... issues ... with access and audio for my #AMS2025 CWG keynote yesterday, but it was almost as wonderful a session as the roundtable that followed it, so here it is if you couldn’t get into the zoom 1/ youtu.be/eRtnv1U8ErU

No. Cannot get excited about people I don’t know playing out some kind of fantasy scenario. Oh we’re talking about reality tv not the constitutional monarchy?

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx 'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.' Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

love having my stereo set up where I can listen to it again! I'd forgotten about this absolute GEM - I don't have this CD, but a whole double album of Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson duets. Breathtaking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTH...

Job alert! www.rcm.ac.uk/about/jobs/c...

Essential POV. Back in 2016, I challenged a childhood friend who was backing Trump, right after the Access Hollywood tapes came out. She has two sons and two daughters. I asked how she would feel if someone talked about her daughters that way. She said, “it’s locker room talk. … 1/

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

If you love gnarly Renaissance avant-garde, try this. Win-win: the music is a whole lot better + you don't have to deal with a coprophiliac uxoricide (he abused his 2nd wife, too, until she returned to Ferrara for refuge). I've never understood the kudos he's given. open.spotify.com/album/44i0sQ...

Carlo Gesualdo has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo

So I guess if we want to attend a fully online session at AMS but are attending in person, we have to pack along headphones and stand around in the hotel's common spaces with our devices and try and tune in? There are no rooms designated for online sessions to be streamed 🙄

New - Singing Through Menopause newsletter! - Menopause, voice & the workplace - Science festival quiz - Hormones & the voice factsheets To read the newsletter - kathleencronie.com/so/3ePfA49rK... To receive the quarterly newsletter - forms.gle/5WFJyFmTFTHx... #menopause #voice #singing #choir

Caligula has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

Carlo Gesualdo has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo

This is the wireless charger that charges the battery that powers my hi-frequency spinal neurostimulator. I am so hammered by the business and effort of moving house that I TOTALLY forgot to charge two nights running. I may be on the sofa some time.

We are so proud of this recording. And here’s another lovely review, this time by @earlymusicamerica.bsky.social www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles...

Look on my woks, (yeah, my tea), and this pear!

Winning the sky today

Absolutely incredible work here. Just keep clicking back through the quotes.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, but you may not turn over the examination paper until instructed to do so by the invigilators

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look upon my work that you requested half an hour ago and please let me know any feedback ASAP so I can make any changes for you, since the submission deadline is tomorrow. Thank you!

Nice article about him (I only know the Brewers' organist) variety.com/2025/music/n...

Set up the wildlife camera in the new garden

I think this is something I need to do….

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

'Yesterday was the final day of three weeks of testimony from ministers, civil servants, regulators, charities and other experts. And the total number of times that university students have been mentioned? Zero.'

Horrific amount of professional time goes into #GrantWriting. Learning the success rates at least helps us know that the 'failed' 99% must surely contain quite a few equally strong submissions.

efficiency. The amount of work that goes into applying to these grants is insane -- the academics writing it, the academic colleagues commenting, the Professional Service teams finetuning and sorting out all the costings etc. Surely that time could be used more efficiently *for actual research*?

Unprecedented, potentially unlawful retrograde proposals made by @solentuniversity.bsky.social If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you. We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals. #HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool

When @ursulakleguin.com started writing a new novel, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World is the first publication focusing on her maps. THE WORD FOR WORLD: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is available in the US from @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social Here: ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781068...

Our society needs to return to the traditional, time-worn ways of life like making your livelihood by posting content on TikTok and Insta

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists. 1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents. 2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police. 2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

On my way to @musicasecreta.bsky.social’s concert at Brighton Early Music Festival - first time travelling from Forest Hill. I have a black eye, a dodgy knee, and 500 unanswered emails thanks to moving house on Wednesday, but this evening Will Be Lush. #GirlsGotPolyphony

Please would you do this for @musicasecreta.bsky.social ? We want to continue to make music that makes hearts soar, not sore. We only have one concert this year - TONIGHT at Brighton Early Music Festival - and we want to so much more. x

Please would you do this for @musicasecreta.bsky.social ? We want to continue to make music that makes hearts soar, not sore. We only have one concert this year - TONIGHT at Brighton Early Music Festival - and we want to so much more. x

You have until the end of today to nominate us for this special draw. We'd be so grateful if you could. And once you've done that, you could nominate us for the £1000 draw. It's simple and super quick and it doesn't matter where you are in the world. 😍 culture.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...

Day168 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️

#Caturday in a new house

Laurie Stras and Musica Secreta have released their latest album, 'Ricordanze'. Ahead of their concert at Brighton Early Music Festival on Sunday (19 Oct), Laurie explores the mysterious depths of a precious manuscript... Read the article 👉 https://go.continuoconnect.com/ricordanze-a-record-of-love

Should be leaving in around 2 hours. Perhaps not the time to tackle the bison grass vodka I found in the freezer.

Moving house. We ride at dawn. I am TRYING to empty the fridge. Is it wrong to be drinking a tumbler full of G&T?

I've spoken a lot about this - I noticed so many uni lecturers teaching online during COVID, using their voices differently and tiring themselves out. The instinct to use the voice changes in a large room, we use our bodies differently. #voice #teaching www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Up at sparrowfart to finish writing my narration for Sunday’s concert. The lads are taking my desk away at 9am.

Ridiculously proud of my team and the thing wot we did. Thanks ever and again to @leverhulme.ac.uk for making it happen.