Mark Berry
@boulezian.bsky.social
Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
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There you have it: the past 10 years of British history in a nutshell.
November 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There you have it: the past 10 years of British history in a nutshell.
Who they are #78926
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Who they are #78926
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I’m so mad about Labour dropping the day one protection from unfair dismissal. It just feels like they have no idea what some workplaces are like. This comment from Rachel Reeves yesterday just sounded so heartless.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’m so mad about Labour dropping the day one protection from unfair dismissal. It just feels like they have no idea what some workplaces are like. This comment from Rachel Reeves yesterday just sounded so heartless.
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ugly ignorant christo-fascist #USAUSAUSA
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
ugly ignorant christo-fascist #USAUSAUSA
Happy birthday, Helmut Lachenmann! boulezian.blogspot.com/2018/01/marc...
Marche fatale
This is the way the world ends. Not with a whimper but a bang. If ever we needed proof that 2018 will bring Götterdämmerung … And who bet...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Happy birthday, Helmut Lachenmann! boulezian.blogspot.com/2018/01/marc...
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Happy 90th, Opa Helmut! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aco1...
mit Opa Helmut am Klavier
YouTube video by Kyoko Winter
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November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy 90th, Opa Helmut! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aco1...
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This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
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Absolutely. When I was too ill to do much else I used to follow planes flying above me using an app (helped me feel connected to people)
I couldn’t believe the extent to which private jets populate the sky. The air is simply thick with them
I couldn’t believe the extent to which private jets populate the sky. The air is simply thick with them
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Absolutely. When I was too ill to do much else I used to follow planes flying above me using an app (helped me feel connected to people)
I couldn’t believe the extent to which private jets populate the sky. The air is simply thick with them
I couldn’t believe the extent to which private jets populate the sky. The air is simply thick with them
This 1000 times over. If you can't afford mortgage payments or won't (cut down on that avocado toast!) then move. I don't support the system that does that; I want it torn down. But if either you are unaware of how renters live, or you simply do not care, don't expect sympathy from the rest of us.
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This 1000 times over. If you can't afford mortgage payments or won't (cut down on that avocado toast!) then move. I don't support the system that does that; I want it torn down. But if either you are unaware of how renters live, or you simply do not care, don't expect sympathy from the rest of us.
What possible justification can there be for yet again freezing income tax thresholds rather than raising the level of income tax on the rich, let alone for doing this rather than properly taxing wealth, property ownership included? It is straightforwardly wicked.
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What possible justification can there be for yet again freezing income tax thresholds rather than raising the level of income tax on the rich, let alone for doing this rather than properly taxing wealth, property ownership included? It is straightforwardly wicked.
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Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
I cannot see why private jets should in any circumstances be permitted. If people consider themselves too grand to travel otherwise, we have no need of them in this country. There is no excuse for such wanton. environmentally catastrophic selfishness, none whatsoever.
MISSING: Closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy.
Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget
Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I cannot see why private jets should in any circumstances be permitted. If people consider themselves too grand to travel otherwise, we have no need of them in this country. There is no excuse for such wanton. environmentally catastrophic selfishness, none whatsoever.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems!
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems!
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
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When I was monitoring FB etc groups around Brexit, the one thing pro and anti groups all had in common was racist & misogynistic memes and other posts about Diane Abbott. She was loathed by the centre and the right and whatever the reasons they gave if challenged, it was always misogynoir behind it
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When I was monitoring FB etc groups around Brexit, the one thing pro and anti groups all had in common was racist & misogynistic memes and other posts about Diane Abbott. She was loathed by the centre and the right and whatever the reasons they gave if challenged, it was always misogynoir behind it
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the bigotry is LOUD. shame on the BBC.
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
the bigotry is LOUD. shame on the BBC.
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🚨BREAKING -- A new UN report has found Israel's annihilation of Gaza has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🚨BREAKING -- A new UN report has found Israel's annihilation of Gaza has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
I don't need an 'interactive game' to tell me I am not a plagiarist or CV-falsifier, I have not taken money and clothes from 'Lord' Alli, I do not tell lies about Jeremy Corbyn, I have not killed the elderly or impoverished children, I would immediately rejoin the Customs Union and Single Market...
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I don't need an 'interactive game' to tell me I am not a plagiarist or CV-falsifier, I have not taken money and clothes from 'Lord' Alli, I do not tell lies about Jeremy Corbyn, I have not killed the elderly or impoverished children, I would immediately rejoin the Customs Union and Single Market...
Proud of a property lawyer friend who, asked by students at a university society talk, whether London property was ‘still a good investment’ replied no, because to regard houses and flats as an investment rather than somewhere to live is immoral. Not the answer they expected, she said.
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Proud of a property lawyer friend who, asked by students at a university society talk, whether London property was ‘still a good investment’ replied no, because to regard houses and flats as an investment rather than somewhere to live is immoral. Not the answer they expected, she said.
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“The organiser of Pécs Pride, the only Hungarian LGBTQ+ Pride event outside of Budapest, could face criminal charges for defying the country’s ban on Pride.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Hungarian Pride organiser could face criminal charges and prison sentence
The organiser of the only Hungarian Pride event outside of Budapest is under criminal investigation for defying the country's Pride ban.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“The organiser of Pécs Pride, the only Hungarian LGBTQ+ Pride event outside of Budapest, could face criminal charges for defying the country’s ban on Pride.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and others at risk of arrest and prosecution for organising Prides.
Please keep being loud and proud.
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
British Theatre Before and After Covid
www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.