Jonathan Morgan
@jonathanmorgan2.bsky.social
Baroque flute, Balinese Gamelan, Sackbut, food, books
My current favourite in this rich sea of memes
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September 22, 2026 at 7:27 AM
My current favourite in this rich sea of memes
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So much of, and in, the world is experienced and understood through music… week in, week out…
September 13, 2026 at 7:51 AM
So much of, and in, the world is experienced and understood through music… week in, week out…
This evening’s Spritz. @davidhewson.com will recognize the spot!
September 2, 2026 at 6:16 PM
This evening’s Spritz. @davidhewson.com will recognize the spot!
Some excellent value food and drink here in Venice’s Santa Marta district today. First pic shows the bargain €5 Spritz & snack deal at Carovansara, and second pic is at Osteria Bakan: €15 lunch, including primo, secondo, coffee, and wine/Spritz. Very local for us: that’s our bedroom window opposite!
August 31, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Some excellent value food and drink here in Venice’s Santa Marta district today. First pic shows the bargain €5 Spritz & snack deal at Carovansara, and second pic is at Osteria Bakan: €15 lunch, including primo, secondo, coffee, and wine/Spritz. Very local for us: that’s our bedroom window opposite!
Second evening in Venice, so two spritzes down so far. This evening at Carovansara, conveniently just round the corner from our apartment (thanks to @davidhewson.com for the rec); yesterday at Bar Blu (@robinsaikia.bsky.social’s little guidebook).
August 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Second evening in Venice, so two spritzes down so far. This evening at Carovansara, conveniently just round the corner from our apartment (thanks to @davidhewson.com for the rec); yesterday at Bar Blu (@robinsaikia.bsky.social’s little guidebook).
#NowPlaying This is Very Good! Superb orchestral playing, and a marvellously clear but warm recorded sound. Honeck’s interpretation is often quite interventionist but never for the sake of it; details of articulation and dynamics are minutely observed.
July 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
#NowPlaying This is Very Good! Superb orchestral playing, and a marvellously clear but warm recorded sound. Honeck’s interpretation is often quite interventionist but never for the sake of it; details of articulation and dynamics are minutely observed.
42 of these, as opposed to 45 of the original list, so marginally in the opposite direction for me. Don’t know what that signifies!
i’ve read 69 of these, quite a jump up from the previous list. there are still some lacunae (of course, it’s a list) but it’s going in the right direction
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
Top 100 reader novels
After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped b...
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
42 of these, as opposed to 45 of the original list, so marginally in the opposite direction for me. Don’t know what that signifies!
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I’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including:
– Books that just missed out
– Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out)
– Best novelists
– Alternative rankings
– Weirdest and least-weird ballots
mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...
– Books that just missed out
– Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out)
– Best novelists
– Alternative rankings
– Weirdest and least-weird ballots
mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...
Guardian 100 best novels (stats and errors)
The website of Dr Matthew Aldridge, Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Leeds
mpaldridge.github.io
May 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including:
– Books that just missed out
– Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out)
– Best novelists
– Alternative rankings
– Weirdest and least-weird ballots
mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...
– Books that just missed out
– Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out)
– Best novelists
– Alternative rankings
– Weirdest and least-weird ballots
mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...
73% now 😜🥳
To the Mail’s horror, the vote is currently 71% want to rejoin the EU Takes a couple of seconds to do. Keep it up!
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.
Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
April 15, 2026 at 7:39 AM
73% now 😜🥳
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My answer to the trolley problem is:
That’s not a trolley, it’s a tram.
No, what you call a tram is a cable car.
No, what you call a cable car is probably a funicular.
Oh, while we were sorting out these important points, the railed vehicle has passed the points. Yes, they are points, not a switch.
That’s not a trolley, it’s a tram.
No, what you call a tram is a cable car.
No, what you call a cable car is probably a funicular.
Oh, while we were sorting out these important points, the railed vehicle has passed the points. Yes, they are points, not a switch.
There isn’t an “answer” to the trolley problem, it’s meant to make you appreciate moral complexity, not be solved.
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
March 11, 2026 at 8:21 AM
My answer to the trolley problem is:
That’s not a trolley, it’s a tram.
No, what you call a tram is a cable car.
No, what you call a cable car is probably a funicular.
Oh, while we were sorting out these important points, the railed vehicle has passed the points. Yes, they are points, not a switch.
That’s not a trolley, it’s a tram.
No, what you call a tram is a cable car.
No, what you call a cable car is probably a funicular.
Oh, while we were sorting out these important points, the railed vehicle has passed the points. Yes, they are points, not a switch.
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For now this is just one poll. But if this trend continues the current FPTP voting system makes no sense anymore.
If you add the SNP and Plaid Cymru to the mix we might end up with a completely random result at the next elections. Which will undermine trust in the U.K. democracy even further.
If you add the SNP and Plaid Cymru to the mix we might end up with a completely random result at the next elections. Which will undermine trust in the U.K. democracy even further.
March 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM
For now this is just one poll. But if this trend continues the current FPTP voting system makes no sense anymore.
If you add the SNP and Plaid Cymru to the mix we might end up with a completely random result at the next elections. Which will undermine trust in the U.K. democracy even further.
If you add the SNP and Plaid Cymru to the mix we might end up with a completely random result at the next elections. Which will undermine trust in the U.K. democracy even further.
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Wagner Tuba time! Bruckner 8, Philharmonia, RFH tonight.
February 19, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Wagner Tuba time! Bruckner 8, Philharmonia, RFH tonight.
PSA: currently on Amazon.uk Kindle at £0.99
"Rumours of indiscretion between the king and his young male attendant fly between palace servants."
Read more as Olivia Ovenden reviews Rebecca Perry’s debut novel, "May We Feed the King".
https://bit.ly/4rpB8SN
Read more as Olivia Ovenden reviews Rebecca Perry’s debut novel, "May We Feed the King".
https://bit.ly/4rpB8SN
Rebecca Perry’s debut novel serves a feast for an unfit king
This lyrical work of historical fiction transports us to a gossip-filled medieval court via the curious mind of a present-day curator
bit.ly
February 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM
PSA: currently on Amazon.uk Kindle at £0.99
That little section with the 4 Wagner tubas in the slow movement is my absolute favourite of all Bruckner: looking forward to hearing it tomorrow night.
Bruckner 8 in rehearsal with conductor Lawrence Renes! 🎶🙌
The Wagner tubas are at the ready as we prepare for Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. Join us at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall tomorrow night at 7.30pm
🎟️ Book now:
philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/bru...
The Wagner tubas are at the ready as we prepare for Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. Join us at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall tomorrow night at 7.30pm
🎟️ Book now:
philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/bru...
February 18, 2026 at 8:59 PM
That little section with the 4 Wagner tubas in the slow movement is my absolute favourite of all Bruckner: looking forward to hearing it tomorrow night.
Ah well, there I am, on the fringes of the UK classical music community - quite apt, I think…
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Ah well, there I am, on the fringes of the UK classical music community - quite apt, I think…
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The Danes clearly have a sense of humour
January 18, 2026 at 1:25 PM
The Danes clearly have a sense of humour
Wonderfully eclectic programme tonight at Kings Place
January 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Wonderfully eclectic programme tonight at Kings Place
Fascinating, detailed thread
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
January 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Fascinating, detailed thread
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There should be ‘Couldn’t Give a Fucking Toss, Mate’ option.
With some commentators interpreting Kemi Badenoch's sacking of Robert Jenrick as a display of strength, do the wider public see her as a strong or weak leader?
Strong leader: 25%
Weak leader: 35%
Don't know: 40%
By 2024 vote
Conservative: +37 net strong
Reform UK: +1
Lib Dem: -12
Labour: -32
Strong leader: 25%
Weak leader: 35%
Don't know: 40%
By 2024 vote
Conservative: +37 net strong
Reform UK: +1
Lib Dem: -12
Labour: -32
January 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
There should be ‘Couldn’t Give a Fucking Toss, Mate’ option.
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🔴A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump’s America
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports @alexhh.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports @alexhh.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump's America
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports Alexandra Hal...
bylinetimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:52 AM
🔴A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump’s America
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports @alexhh.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports @alexhh.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
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This AI music video defending Greenland is amazing 🤩
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 AM
This AI music video defending Greenland is amazing 🤩
On TGV heading north, near Dijon. Snowy fields, and Johannes Martin Kränzle’s powerful new Winterreise streaming through my earbuds. I saw his marvellous Alberich in the Berlin Ring, 2024; he recorded this Winterreise later that year.
December 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
On TGV heading north, near Dijon. Snowy fields, and Johannes Martin Kränzle’s powerful new Winterreise streaming through my earbuds. I saw his marvellous Alberich in the Berlin Ring, 2024; he recorded this Winterreise later that year.
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My new favourite video of all time.
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My new favourite video of all time.