Oliver Jones

Marketer, opera lover, runner, east Londoner. All opinions are my own.

[Oliver Jones @OliHJones]

@PatrickAllies I hope you enjoyed it!

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

#CDR techniques only have limited ability to help avoiding long-term sea level rise due to melting of #Greenland ice sheet, finds new PIK study w @dennishoening. Keeping emissions low is the only safe way to avoid irreversible mass loss of ice sheet.
👉https://t.co/sKPWqIL1Cl

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"we are a people who were the victims of apartheid. We know what apartheid looks like... we will not be passive bystanders & watch the crimes that were visited on us being perpetrated on other people elsewhere"

Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa

[MANPalestineMovement @ManPalestine]

"I LOST MY FAMILY IN GAZA!" A Palestinian who lost his mother, brother & nieces to Israel's bombing in Gaza confronts Angela Raynor & the Labour Party at a Stockport fundraiser.
How can the Labour Party & any party not call for a ceasefire when Israel's genocide has killed 25000 Palestinians
#StopGazaGenocide
#CeasefireNOW
#FreePalestine

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Well that’s the last time she’s being invited back on Sky News. We can’t have people explaining things accurately, can we now

[The Renaissance Singers (London) @singrenaissance]

Here’s an early rehearsal clip of the epic Lamentations by José de Baquedano. It is hard to believe how recently his music has been rediscovered. We think it’s thunderingly good. 🔥
Hear the full piece on 10 February! Tickets: https://t.co/gifS5JWv3d

[The Renaissance Singers (London) @singrenaissance]

Our first concert of 2024 is an intense and emotive programme of polyphony from Spain and the New World, inspired by one of the most influential lost composers of history, Manuel Mendes.
Book tickets: https://t.co/gifS5JWv3d

[Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser]

Every week there are thousands of people who find great comfort by singing in a choir, or playing in a band, or playing in an orchestra. This plays a vital role in their health and wellbeing, their social life, and their creative and emotional nourishment. Music is so important.

[Shehab Khan @ShehabKhan]

EXC: Leaked messages from a Tory staffers WhatsApp group show:

- Sir Mark Rowley called a “preeminent Islamic scholar”

- Staffer admits to deleting emails from constituents in MP's inbox which disagree with Gaza policy and saying they're 'deluded' and 'will never vote for us'

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

🚨 Breaking: The CEO of Thames Water has QUIT.

Sarah Bentley oversaw the company as it dumped raw sewage an average of 22 times a DAY last year.

[Sam Bright @WritesBright]

🔴 NEW 🔴

Rishi Sunak was gifted the use of a helicopter by Conservative donor Steve Parkin in May (worth £10k), whose firm Clipper Logistics was awarded £15 million+ in COVID contracts

[Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera]

The Humanities are under attack, both from utilitarian voices such as this & from parties within academia who are determined to "critique" traditional areas of study to the point of destruction. If these disciplines go, the loss, to society & individuals, will be incalculable.

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Lies and reality on #NHS at 75
Well done @The_TUC in launching this video

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

great day to share some of my fav pics of princess diana hanging out and shaking hands w AIDS patients at a time when the disease was so stigmatized, nurses would leave trays of food outside of patients’ rooms for fear of catching it via touch

[Shelly M @ShellyAsquith]

Outrageous scenes of cops arresting anti-monarchy protestors and stealing their placards

So we are not allowed to show public opposition to a bloke being crowned head of state for having been born into unimaginable wealth while ppl line up at food banks and schools fall apart

[Sean Wensley @SeanWensley]

To assess ethical acceptability of the #GrandNational & horseracing, as we must as a humane nation, we need to fully understand & account for the #AnimalWelfare costs. This isn't the same as 'how much the horses are loved'.

Beyond deaths & whip use, those costs include: (1/3)

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Can you guarantee that under your leadership the 2019 commitment to nationalise water, energy, rail, the Royal Mail, they'll all be in Labs next election manifesto?"

Starmer "I've made that commitment"

18 months later...

Starmer "I didnt make a commitment to nationalisation"

[Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon) @neill_bob]

While we should have a proper strategic review of opera provision, this goes beyond opera. Indeed, it's about access to the arts and how we support British talent. Everyone will lose out by this decision.

What ACE is doing is an utter dereliction of its stated aims. 2/2

[Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon) @neill_bob]

Important debate yesterday on supporting UK artists and culture in which I concentrated on the @E_N_O.

What ACE is proposing, on the most questionable evidence base, isn't a relocation, but the killing off of the ENO. 300 skilled, world-admired people would lose their jobs. 1/2