David Nice
@davidnice.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.
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David Nice
@davidnice.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Giving it a try on here after low-key interactions on Mastodon - excellent for finding out about the world, but I missed most of the musical folk I left behind on Xitter last year. Good to see some famiiar faces already.
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Wilkoff is no useful idiot...he's as deeply guilty as the rest.
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Wilkoff is no useful idiot...he's as deeply guilty as the rest.
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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Fairly certain Kemi Badenoch is hoping that nobody has noticed this.
Pretty brazen...
Pretty brazen...
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Fairly certain Kemi Badenoch is hoping that nobody has noticed this.
Pretty brazen...
Pretty brazen...
Jeez - The Grauniad has no less than four articles about Black Friday consumer products. What a farce. Surprised Adrian Chiles, the editor's partner, didn't get in on the act.
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Jeez - The Grauniad has no less than four articles about Black Friday consumer products. What a farce. Surprised Adrian Chiles, the editor's partner, didn't get in on the act.
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Miko Peled, the son of a prominent Israeli general who saw firsthand the genocidal depravity of the Israeli death-cult and now stands fully with the Palestinian liberation struggle: "There is no good Zionism, it is a racist, violent ideology."
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Miko Peled, the son of a prominent Israeli general who saw firsthand the genocidal depravity of the Israeli death-cult and now stands fully with the Palestinian liberation struggle: "There is no good Zionism, it is a racist, violent ideology."
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This is not a battle that has just begun, the veterans that served with these people in Afghanistan have been fighting for this for months. We should stand behind them. For them to be sent back to Taliban controlled areas is certain death.
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is not a battle that has just begun, the veterans that served with these people in Afghanistan have been fighting for this for months. We should stand behind them. For them to be sent back to Taliban controlled areas is certain death.
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Persecuting the living and the dead.
Russia tries and convicts a dead man for being part of an international LGBT+ conspiracy & changes state dictionary to applaud authoritarianism
The latest #PTFweekly newsletter is out now. Read & subscribe at https://mailchi.mp/56c942daedb5/russia-convicts-dead-man-for-lgbt-activism-13381490
The latest #PTFweekly newsletter is out now. Read & subscribe at https://mailchi.mp/56c942daedb5/russia-convicts-dead-man-for-lgbt-activism-13381490
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Persecuting the living and the dead.
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★★★★★ Taylor, LPO, Gardner, RFH - perfect pace in multifaceted Elgar writes @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Taylor, LPO, Gardner, RFH review - perfect pace in multifaceted Elgar
Even top conductors can have difficulty with Elgar’s late romantic suppleness. Vasily Petrenko of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Santtu-Mattias Rouvali of the Philharmonia have made a heavy meal...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
★★★★★ Taylor, LPO, Gardner, RFH - perfect pace in multifaceted Elgar writes @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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Everyone in the world should watch this.
Eye witnesses Gaza, testimony
Dr. Ben Thomson
Eye witnesses Gaza, testimony
Dr. Ben Thomson
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Everyone in the world should watch this.
Eye witnesses Gaza, testimony
Dr. Ben Thomson
Eye witnesses Gaza, testimony
Dr. Ben Thomson
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Ed Gardner knows how to make Elgar move, in more senses than one, where other conductors don't quite get it. Beth Taylor also contralto-magnificent and intensely dramatic in 'Sea Pictures'. Five stars, no doubt about it: a first rate evening @southbankcentre.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Ed Gardner knows how to make Elgar move, in more senses than one, where other conductors don't quite get it. Beth Taylor also contralto-magnificent and intensely dramatic in 'Sea Pictures'. Five stars, no doubt about it: a first rate evening @southbankcentre.bsky.social
Courage we can't begin to imagine (yet, thank goodness).
"First we meekly allowed millions of us to be killed,then we carefully pampered the killers in their comfortable old age."
Anna Aleksandrova,a hairdresser from the Leningrad region of Russia,was sentenced to 5,2yrs in prison for "spreading fakes about the Russian army"
Anna Aleksandrova,a hairdresser from the Leningrad region of Russia,was sentenced to 5,2yrs in prison for "spreading fakes about the Russian army"
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Courage we can't begin to imagine (yet, thank goodness).
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Wonderful Liz Watts stepped in with 24 hours' notice to replace Lucy Crowe. She was every inch as splendid in her own way as the other great Brit would have been. Fascinating programme from the Fantasia Orchestra, too. theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Wonderful Liz Watts stepped in with 24 hours' notice to replace Lucy Crowe. She was every inch as splendid in her own way as the other great Brit would have been. Fascinating programme from the Fantasia Orchestra, too. theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
The lady's not for turning. It's all about growth, growth, growth. Another thing to hate about this appalling misgovernment.
Demand no more airport expansion while we’re in a climate emergency here: foe.uk/14iat
Tell Rachel Reeves: don’t put plane profits before planet
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has backed airport expansion while we're in a climate emergency. Expanding airports like Heathrow, Luton and Gatwick won’t do much, if anything, for the communities that need ...
foe.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The lady's not for turning. It's all about growth, growth, growth. Another thing to hate about this appalling misgovernment.
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I stand with Senator Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I stand with Senator Mark Kelly.
The slide to authoritarianism continues. What the heck? And Labour needs to drop the charges against pro-Palestine protesters. A criminal waste of time and (our) money. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan for England and Wales, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The slide to authoritarianism continues. What the heck? And Labour needs to drop the charges against pro-Palestine protesters. A criminal waste of time and (our) money. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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So disgusting. As is the death penalty already.
our cruelty has never stopped for some, and it seems our prison/judicial system was set up to do exactly that.
"At 5:50, correctional officers opened the curtains of the death chamber to begin the state’s grim orchestration. Before those curtains would close about 37 minutes later, Boyd would gasp for air inside the gas mask more than 225 times."
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November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
So disgusting. As is the death penalty already.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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When people can't get their heads round the difference in scale between millions and billions, show them this. as for trillions, guess we're talking 'In the beginning was the word...' (no, not really...)
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When people can't get their heads round the difference in scale between millions and billions, show them this. as for trillions, guess we're talking 'In the beginning was the word...' (no, not really...)
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