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We're so proud of the inspiring work from our wonderful cast & creatives last year ~ you all made THE LITTLE ZOMBIE GIRL such an exciting success!! 🤩 THANK YOU 🤩 🎹 Music ~ Omar Shahryar 📖 Libretto ~ @edmundharris.bsky.social 📸 photography Alex Brenner www.alexbrenner.com #LondonYouthOpera

1971 - 2026 🎉 We are celebrating 55 years of Youth Opera 🎉 🎭 UK’s oldest Youth Opera Company!🎭 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️If you’re an alumni of W11 Opera / LYO we'd love to hear from your, please get in contact via our website at [email protected]. 📣 Please spread the word! 📣 #londonyouthopera #operaalumni

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “The problem isn’t old age. It’s how some have chosen to wield it. The world doesn’t need more ageing strongmen clinging to power. It needs elders who are willing to let go – and guide. In this age of age, what we need is not domination, but wisdom” Van Reybrouck

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live

The truth has become basic. Trump is a fool who is fucking everything up. There's no more to it than that. But there's only so many times you can write that column. So people are forced to construct 'well actually he has a point' arguments and 'hidden strategy' think pieces.

a 9-0 ruling by the US Supreme Court! www.ft.com/content/2466...

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

"We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism." Chilling talk. Do watch.

Switzerland seeks closer EU ties in response to Trump shock. Sounds like a plan www.ft.com/content/fba6...

This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..

“There should be no question of Britain giving consideration to making tax concessions to tech billionaires when they are proposing to take billions of pounds from welfare benefit beneficiaries." Well said @jontrickett.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/labour-...

Tax cuts for American billionaires Benefit cuts for disabled people in Britain inews.co.uk/news/politic...

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Everyone should listen to this TED talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is the authority on the dangers of tech left unchecked. We're already in an era of unprecedented dangers - educate yourself to be prepared and to fight back. Start with this vital talk... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

Andrew Feinstein, the son of a holocaust survivor, puts it bluntly: “If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist & kills children like a fascist, it’s a bloody fascist” www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIE...

"My message to the rest of the Democratic Party is if you are not willing to meet that bar, then step aside for somebody who will. Because we're at a moment right now where we do need people who are willing to fight, willing to show some spine, willing to break through in this media environment."

Imagine introducing tarriffs on an island because you thought they were mocking your hair.

And history will repeat itself unless Republicans join us and stand up to these across the board tariffs.

Robert Peston, "Carney stands up to Trump.. Keir Starmer is placating Trump, which is better?" Geoffrey Hinton, "Mark Carney's approach is the right approach. Trump is a bully. If you stand up to bullies, you might get somewhere" "Trying to placate bullies. That sounds like 1938 to me"

Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote. If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.

Wilkie, Farr, & Gallagher: remove them from all tender lists.

This is so blatantly illegal. If Musk isn’t prosecuted for this, we might as well throw out democracy and turn it over to our billionaire lords and landed gentry. It’s over.

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

Dystopian nightmare

🇺🇸 increasingly like Cambodia under Khmer Rouge - with deliberate purge of intelligentsia: Doctors, lawyers, scientists, academics, writers, artists - “experts” of every description, plus all *uppity* blacks, gays and women. Waiting for all “educated elites” to be sent to work in the countryside.

This is a brilliant article- and one of the saddest aspects of it is @edwardluce.bsky.social accurate observation that foreigners can see more clearly the damage being done than most Americans. I can attest to this from my own experience. It’s too shocking for many to comprehend.

80% of Britons say courts should have the power to ban people from standing for election if they are convicted of crimes related to elections or holding office, following French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's ban They should: 80% They should not: 8% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says

This is a wonderful youth opera company in London. I recommend it wholeheartedly!

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

Starmer appears to be caught off guard by the decision by Trump overnight to withdraw aid to Ukraine. He told the Commons on Monday this would not happen. "As I understand that is not their position," he told the Commons, in response to a question from the SNP's Stephen Flynn.

"Fine line"? Seriously? And the tariffs on Canada/Mexico are a fine line between nihilistic economic illiteracy and...what exactly?? news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Extraordinary comment from Tory MP Graham Stuart this morning: “We have to consider the possibility that president Trump is a Russian asset. “If so, Trump’s acquisition is the crowning achievement of Putin’s FSB career — and Europe is on its own.” www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/03...

Exactly #traitortrump #impeachtrump

DOGE has seized access to huge troves of sensitive personal and national security information – and can’t even set up its own website securely. When DOGE fails to protect that data, it puts us all in danger. @repstansbury.bsky.social, @connolly.house.gov and I are pushing back.

Trump complains an awful lot about being called a Russian asset, despite acting repeatedly like a Russian asset

Illegal grab of power from Congress, which authorizes expenditure. Immoral; unethical; unprecedented. An abandonment. A very bleak moment.

"This is a truly shocking conflict of interest. Is Peter Mandelson visiting Palantir as a representative of the Government - or as an emissary of his ugly lobbying group looking after his own financial interests?" www.thenational.scot/news/2497842...

As have been saying for some weeks, we need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us. In a generational move, they’re reorienting the United States towards Russia. “The West”, for now at least, is ceasing to exist or operate as a concept.

Scott Galloway, "America has abandoned Europe and it's steadfast democratic values" #MWC25 "The EU needs to step up and realise America is not going to be with you for another 3 years and 7 months" "There is no reason why the EU can't push back on a murderous autocrat, Putin"