Excellent piece by David Miliband - the Tories have done enormous damage to our standing in the world. It won’t be easy to repair. But he has some good ideas about how to start. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A letter to the Telegraph

The Ukrainian conductor on fleeing Kyiv, Mendelssohn and why “war shows the true faces of people”.

🖊️ Edward Docx
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“Ponomarchuk tells me that now, when she conducts in Ukraine and there is bombing, the audience and the musicians go off to the shelters together. They wait all together.”

🖊️ Edward Docx
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“We must all, whatever our party and our preferences, call time on the neglect, the austerity, the politicisation and the prejudice towards our arts.”

Stewart Wood said that attacks on the arts risk making them 'a preserve of the rich' instead of 'a daily staple for everyone'.

The bleakness of Brexit is now really starting to bite with our great singers & artists - harming their international careers & diminishing brand Britain on the global stage. David Butt Philip is one of our best but the next generation are struggling....

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He’s bloody good, is that Wes Streeting MP

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden comes across as a total idiot. He voted for Brexit but he seems to have no grasp of what it meant.

He did not think it would have consequences for the UK's relationship with the EU including barriers for live music.

Glad to have been able to say a few words in celebration of Derek's life.
He was one of the most engaging people you could meet & yes - taken too young.

Delighted to be writing for Slow Horses again. It's the best show on TV. And a pleasure to plot & write for such a talented cast. #slowhorses

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“The Ukrainian pianist Sasha Grynyuk and the Russian violinist Yuri Zhislin on playing together during the conflict.”

🖊️ Edward Docx on Ukraine’s wartime musicians.

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Very very sad to hear of this. Had a few of the very best conversations of my life in her company. Made her paella and she opened champagne & was so very generous & insightful & perceptive & just an astonishing intelligence to be in the presence of... so scurrilously funny, too.

'thinking of the common good'

Candidate for the worst artistic endeavour in any category for the entirety of human history.

Such an interesting interview in so many ways from one of the very best.

he really just lies for the fun of it huh