David Warner

More Liberal Democrat than Green post election.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

I'm sure in the UK the works had German titles!

[Leonard Slatkin @LeonardSlatkin]

Interesting covers from Deutsche Grammophon, No. 34:

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Maajid Nawas went of the rails some years ago. To think he was once a Lib Dem ppc. Mentally a bit like Liz Truss really!

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

He says 7 October massacres were an Israeli false flag operation, just in case you were wondering what @beverleyturner and @GBNEWS consider authoritative.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

I watched it on TV. As far as I can see her message was WE tell YOU what to do.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“America Brexited Britain in 1776"

US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers explains the Trump administration's objections to the UK’s Online Safety Act.

#Newsnight

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

I have an LP of Beethoven's 5th with this conductor. Sounds pretty vibrant - but in mono of course.

[Leonard Slatkin @LeonardSlatkin]

Interesting covers from Decca Records, No. 5:

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

At least they can build High Speed train lines -- loads of them!!!

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

How does a former empire recover from its collapse?
It doesn't. Look at Spain 🇪🇸.

Spain simply sat down on a bench for a quick siesta at 2:30 PM in 1650, drifted into a 3-century coma, & woke up to discover it was now a budget hotel for the British working class.

The fall of the Spanish Empire is the most spectacular geopolitical nose-dive in human history. They went from being the terrifying "Sword of Christendom"—the nation that owned the Americas, the oceans, the Vatican, Austria, Germany, and Belgium—to being a country whose primary contribution to the modern world is "Ibiza", Zara, and tapas. Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit... But you get the picture.

The tragedy of Spain isn't that they lost their empire; it’s that they became the servants of the people they used to bully. For two hundred years, the Spanish Infantry was the scourge of Europe, a terrifying machine of war that crushed Protestants for sport. Today? The descendants of those hardened tercios are frantically inflating banana boats for drunk German tourists in Mallorca.

Spain possessed the greatest windfall in economic history: they looted an entire continent of its gold and silver. And what did they do with it? Did they build industry? Did they invest in infrastructure? No. They spent it all on fancy churches and wars they lost, then defaulted on their national debt thirteen times. They are the lottery winners of history who blew it all on cocaine and porcelain figurines and are now living in a trailer. Spain proves that you can be given the keys to the world and still manage to lock yourself out of the house.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Decca Phase 4 was not typical Decca classical. The recordings were close miked and tended to "populist" repertoire designed to show off HiFi

[Leonard Slatkin @LeonardSlatkin]

We now turn our attention to a British record company established in 1929. Decca had some of the most important artists as well as cover art. No. 1:

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Good recording. Heard that one - on RCA in the UK.

[Leonard Slatkin @LeonardSlatkin]

Interesting covers from Capitol Records, No. 98:

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

I don't suppose New York subway trains ever look ike this? Ever seen "The Warriors" you bigoted idiot?

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

An entire train like this on the Bakerloo line just now.

@MayorofLondon Sadiq Khan's @TfL.

London's decline in one image.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

But did you know Trevor Philips was a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur? https://t.co/gynONkGcMj

[Julian Heather @JulianHeather1]

What an awful woman - like something out of GB News. I suspect she will end up in Badenoch's ultra right Tories or even Reform.

How on earth did this person become a peer, let alone Chair of the Equality & Human Rights Commission. Kishwer Falkner - transphobe supreme

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Fake news apparently https://t.co/UnhC3DmbfT

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Being a comedian in Ukraine clearly pays very well. Zelenskyy reportedly acquires Bill Crosby’s New York townhouse for $29m.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Why is Kirk gauarded by 2 secret service officer types at OXFORD UNIVERSITY? The guys weren't up to much when Kirk got shot in America.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

This is what happened when Charlie Kirk had a debate with someone with an education

Rather than debating American kids that were just starting college.

A student from Oxford University in the UK destroying Charlie Kirk.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

I agree with your sentiment but the programme was quite balanced and interesting.

[Stephen Smith @SteveNickSmith]

Why the hell do we have an immigration special rather than a wealth tax special or a poverty special. The BBC’s role as Santa’s Little Helpers for Enoch Powellism is genuinely shocking

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Personally I think the rot started some years back when they closed and sold off the courts. Lambeth County Court and Camberwell Magistrates Court to name but two.

[Julian Heather @JulianHeather1]

Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Jess Brown-Fuller MP described the plans as "completely disgraceful" and accused the UK Government of "dismantling our justice system and failing victims in the process", saying the government must reconsider its plans
https://t.co/Bmddu4rl1K

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Its funded by investors in Christian Fascism. Advertising revenue must be negligible.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

No one has to fund GB News. It relies on advertising, subscriptions and the confidence of its proprietors that it will become profitable.
The BBC, by contrast, is treated by the LibDems as their channel, but all of us have to pay for it.
Stop pretending not to see the difference.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

I have this LP in a British Music for Pleasure pressing around 1968

[Leonard Slatkin @LeonardSlatkin]

Interesting covers from Capitol Records, No. 75:

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Kempe/RPO cheap but well reviewed in its time

[Love your Inner Classical Music Geek @LoveInner]

I’ve been a bit sketchy with posts while trying to get on top of my new job. But I am dead keen to get back into sharing thoughts on recordings. So, time for another thread on a favourite work. What are your favourite versions of Rimsky’s Scheherazade? Here are mine.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

I doubt she would have got her journalistic jobs earlier in life writing bollocks like that.

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

Quite a BBC analysis by ⁦@AllisonPearson⁩ …

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Maybe Rachel better create a new form of money printing - "The Vassalage Fund" to pay off litigious American Presidents. Modern Monetary Theory holds the solution!

[Robert Peston @Peston]

The legal advice to the BBC I am told is that President Trump was not meaningfully damaged by Panorama’s manipulation of his 6 January speech, and that therefore there is no legal necessity to pay him compensation.

The BBC board is therefore likely to resist and fight his demand to be “appropriately compensated” out of court, and will risk him carrying through on his threat to seek $1bn in damages by going to court.

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

This is what he said this morning

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Lord Charles Moore's extreme rant at the BBC - on the BBC (Radio4 Today programme 10 Nov 25). Talk about "Flood the Zone". He had clearly prepared a mega dump! Kristallnacht, Gaza. Trump the least of it. Thank you for your wise appointments Boris. Every good boss deserves favour!

[David Warner @BrixtonianDave]

Lord Charles Moore's extreme rant at the BBC - on the BBC (Radio4 Today programme 10 Nov 25). Talk about "Flood the Zone". He had clearly prepared a mega dump! Kristallnacht, Gaza. Trump the least of it. Thank you for your wise appointments Boris. Every good boss deserves favour!