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/
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
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...
‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the Naziest of them all?’ ‘You are, Daniel, for claiming there is somehow something “woke” about Shabana Mahmood and her not-at-all Nazi plans for asylum seekers.’
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the Naziest of them all?’ ‘You are, Daniel, for claiming there is somehow something “woke” about Shabana Mahmood and her not-at-all Nazi plans for asylum seekers.’
Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra national de Paris, 15 November 2025 boulezian.blogspot.com/2025/11/le-n...
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra national de Paris, 15 November 2025 boulezian.blogspot.com/2025/11/le-n...
Style Napoléon III…
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Style Napoléon III…
Three books awaiting me on returning home.
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Three books awaiting me on returning home.
I looked at ‘Truth Social’, never having done so before. This is - honestly - what I found at the top of Trump’s account. I think I’ll leave it.
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I looked at ‘Truth Social’, never having done so before. This is - honestly - what I found at the top of Trump’s account. I think I’ll leave it.
Les Noces de Figaro
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Les Noces de Figaro
Café gourmand (cc. @carolinefrmus.bsky.social)
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Café gourmand (cc. @carolinefrmus.bsky.social)
Paying my respects
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Paying my respects
So when she was Leader of the Opposition, four years before the onset of her asset-stripping, community-destroying, lower-middle-class ‘respectability’ reign of terror. And we were members of the European Communities.
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
So when she was Leader of the Opposition, four years before the onset of her asset-stripping, community-destroying, lower-middle-class ‘respectability’ reign of terror. And we were members of the European Communities.
Day off (long planned) in Paris
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Day off (long planned) in Paris
I think another great difference - without flattering US media - has been the unrelenting radical-Right onslaught from UK newspapers: truly the worst in the world. Far more common also for these journalists then to become politicians, though I have the impression that may be changing in the US.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I think another great difference - without flattering US media - has been the unrelenting radical-Right onslaught from UK newspapers: truly the worst in the world. Far more common also for these journalists then to become politicians, though I have the impression that may be changing in the US.
The Line of Beauty
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Line of Beauty
Well, you said it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Well, you said it.