Christopher Stanley
@stanleycj42.bsky.social
out-with the Law in-sight of Justice
Tickets are now available for Voices of San Lazzaro at Little Angel Theatre, London. www.ticketsource.com/islingtonfes... - very highly recommended after seeing this transcendent performsnce last week at St Martin's.
Voices of San Lazzaro at Little Angel Theatre
Tickets are now available for Voices of San Lazzaro at Little Angel Theatre, London on Thu 30 Jul 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
www.ticketsource.com
July 30, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Tickets are now available for Voices of San Lazzaro at Little Angel Theatre, London. www.ticketsource.com/islingtonfes... - very highly recommended after seeing this transcendent performsnce last week at St Martin's.
Great performance from Intesa Duo at St Martin's Today. Very much looking forward to the CD and being booked by @wigmore-hall.org.uk for @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social lunctime concert and being played
July 24, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Great performance from Intesa Duo at St Martin's Today. Very much looking forward to the CD and being booked by @wigmore-hall.org.uk for @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social lunctime concert and being played
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Join pianist Lukas Sternath this morning at Wigmore Hall as he presents a programme of Liszt’s sombre Funérailles and Schubert’s profound final Piano Sonata 🎹
🕰️ 11.30am
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202606071130
📻 This concert is being recorded for subsequent broadcast on BBC Radio 3
🕰️ 11.30am
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202606071130
📻 This concert is being recorded for subsequent broadcast on BBC Radio 3
June 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Join pianist Lukas Sternath this morning at Wigmore Hall as he presents a programme of Liszt’s sombre Funérailles and Schubert’s profound final Piano Sonata 🎹
🕰️ 11.30am
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202606071130
📻 This concert is being recorded for subsequent broadcast on BBC Radio 3
🕰️ 11.30am
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202606071130
📻 This concert is being recorded for subsequent broadcast on BBC Radio 3
@ftweekend.com thank you for reminding us of the sublime City Poet Frank O'Hara who is needed now for our late capitalist instant/dispodal urban times as he was in 50s NYC
May 19, 2026 at 6:46 AM
@ftweekend.com thank you for reminding us of the sublime City Poet Frank O'Hara who is needed now for our late capitalist instant/dispodal urban times as he was in 50s NYC
Subline Schubert by Trio Gaspard yesterday. This what @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social and @wigmore-hall.org.uk are for. Thank you to the three of them.
May 19, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Subline Schubert by Trio Gaspard yesterday. This what @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social and @wigmore-hall.org.uk are for. Thank you to the three of them.
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String Quartets at Wigmore Hall 🎻
Join us this March for performances by world-leading quartets including the Belcea Quartet, Takács Quartet and more playing works by Beethoven, Haydn, Janáček and more ✨
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on?eventLocation=&genres=string-quartet&page=2&startDate=
Join us this March for performances by world-leading quartets including the Belcea Quartet, Takács Quartet and more playing works by Beethoven, Haydn, Janáček and more ✨
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on?eventLocation=&genres=string-quartet&page=2&startDate=
February 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
String Quartets at Wigmore Hall 🎻
Join us this March for performances by world-leading quartets including the Belcea Quartet, Takács Quartet and more playing works by Beethoven, Haydn, Janáček and more ✨
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on?eventLocation=&genres=string-quartet&page=2&startDate=
Join us this March for performances by world-leading quartets including the Belcea Quartet, Takács Quartet and more playing works by Beethoven, Haydn, Janáček and more ✨
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on?eventLocation=&genres=string-quartet&page=2&startDate=
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Join the Chiaroscuro Quartet as they pay homage to Sweelinck and Beethoven in their concert this afternoon at Wigmore Hall 🎻
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Beethoven and Sweelinck
🎟️ Returns only: https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602161300
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Beethoven and Sweelinck
🎟️ Returns only: https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602161300
February 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Join the Chiaroscuro Quartet as they pay homage to Sweelinck and Beethoven in their concert this afternoon at Wigmore Hall 🎻
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Beethoven and Sweelinck
🎟️ Returns only: https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602161300
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Beethoven and Sweelinck
🎟️ Returns only: https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602161300
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Labour's Rwanda policy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Ruling against Palestine Action ban is embarrassing defeat for the government
Proscription of British direct action group has been fiercely controversial from moment it was proposed last June
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Labour's Rwanda policy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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My piece on why Keir Starmer isn't turning out to be the human rights hero he talked himself up as is in the Long Read's best of 2025 - and in great company... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
The best of the long read in 2025
The long read: Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My piece on why Keir Starmer isn't turning out to be the human rights hero he talked himself up as is in the Long Read's best of 2025 - and in great company... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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3. Inside the BBC's Gaza fiasco: how the world's most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
3. Inside the BBC's Gaza fiasco: how the world's most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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2. Starmer v Starmer: the prime minister's curious record on human rights, in the words of his current and former colleagues
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
2. Starmer v Starmer: the prime minister's curious record on human rights, in the words of his current and former colleagues
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Three pieces I wrote this year...
1. Is this fascism? An essay on the new global right
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
1. Is this fascism? An essay on the new global right
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Three pieces I wrote this year...
1. Is this fascism? An essay on the new global right
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
1. Is this fascism? An essay on the new global right
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
January 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
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Pianist Lily Petrova gives her solo debut recital at Wigmore Hall with a programme of Leonid Desyatnikov's wonderful piano cycle Songs of Bukovina 💫
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Leonid Desyatnikov
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602041300
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Leonid Desyatnikov
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602041300
February 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Pianist Lily Petrova gives her solo debut recital at Wigmore Hall with a programme of Leonid Desyatnikov's wonderful piano cycle Songs of Bukovina 💫
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Leonid Desyatnikov
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602041300
🕰️ 1.00pm
🎶 Leonid Desyatnikov
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602041300
Praise to Lily Petrova @wigmore-hall.org.uk for RAM (esp her teacher Joanna McGregor) in the lyrical pianism of the 24 Preludes that are the Songs of Bukovina ... technical power, wit and melancholy
February 5, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Praise to Lily Petrova @wigmore-hall.org.uk for RAM (esp her teacher Joanna McGregor) in the lyrical pianism of the 24 Preludes that are the Songs of Bukovina ... technical power, wit and melancholy
Snow Moon over SE London last night
February 1, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Snow Moon over SE London last night
Excellent performance by Sofia Sacco @wigmore-hall.org.uk today Couperin, Bach, Kurtag, Shostakovitch .. powerful and lyrical pianism .. a well-balanced programme.
January 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Excellent performance by Sofia Sacco @wigmore-hall.org.uk today Couperin, Bach, Kurtag, Shostakovitch .. powerful and lyrical pianism .. a well-balanced programme.
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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree 🎄
The Christmas tree has been brightening up the Wigmore Hall foyer since the start of December and tonight it sees one last festive programme as Siglo de Oro perform Christmas Folklore 🎶
📸 Daniel Davies
The Christmas tree has been brightening up the Wigmore Hall foyer since the start of December and tonight it sees one last festive programme as Siglo de Oro perform Christmas Folklore 🎶
📸 Daniel Davies
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree 🎄
The Christmas tree has been brightening up the Wigmore Hall foyer since the start of December and tonight it sees one last festive programme as Siglo de Oro perform Christmas Folklore 🎶
📸 Daniel Davies
The Christmas tree has been brightening up the Wigmore Hall foyer since the start of December and tonight it sees one last festive programme as Siglo de Oro perform Christmas Folklore 🎶
📸 Daniel Davies
Got to be done ...
December 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Got to be done ...