RT @latestinspace: BREAKING 🚨: SpaceX’s Fram2 mission has taken the first x-ray in space

OK. I've been on Blue Sky for a while. From now on that's the best place to find me.

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This is already top of my must-listen list. .

This morning's light while I was getting the paper.

This sadly couldn't feel more topical with Trump's re-election. Here's my review. ''Kyoto', Soho Place Theatre – blistering, darkly witty play raises more questions than it answers

I've spent most of this week in cultural orbit. Mahler's vision of the cosmos in his 3rd Symphony, Terry Riley's whistling electron-filled 'Sun Rings' and – to finish off – Samantha Harvey's beautiful 'Orbital'. It's been extraordinary but I'm ready to come down to earth now. .

I thought long and hard about the controversy surrounding this after Maduro's snatched election. But I concluded what the orchestra does transcends dictatorship. Here's my review. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Dudamel, Barbican - an epic journey.

RT @TheAtlantic: The intelligence community once believed that “Havana syndrome” was not the work of a U.S. adversary. It’s no longer so si….

Victor Vescovo is one of today's greatest pioneers - our most successful deep sea explorer who's now revolutionising the mapping of the sea bed. Great to see this piece. Here's our own conversation with him on Drink The Wild Air.

Lovely light on the coast from Ramsgate to Broadstairs today.

Is it my imagination, or does ‘Charade’ get better with every viewing?

Another Otter mis-transcription gem this morning - in which Shostakovich has become 'shots to COVID'.

I finally got to see 'You Me Bum Bum Train' - @TheBumBumTrain - last night - happily it was as great as everyone says. Here's the impossible review I had to write without divulging any details.

I enjoyed the exhilarating dash to Sussex to see this last night. Messiah, Wild Arts, Chichester Cathedral review – a dynamic battle between revelatory light and Stygian gloom

Plenty of psychedelic fun to be had at A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC, Barbican. Here's my review - visually ravishing with an undercurrent of violence

I interviewed Syrian exiles for @dgquarterly after the first uprising against Assad about what needed to be done to form an effective opposition. Very much hoping that the right people will prevail in forming a brave new Syria.

I remember interviewing people who'd been tortured under the Assad regime. It felt that this day couldn't come soon enough. The fear is that what comes next will be like Libya. Hoping I'm wrong on this. .

A great London moment - wandering down a nondescript street on a cold windy afternoon to see a queue forming for @alehousefiddler and the barokksolistene at @villageundrgrnd for @through_t_noise. Inside a crowd of all ages having a riotously joyful time.

Astonishing - noises made by thick ice when it's expanding and contracting here sound like gunfire.

This was joyous. George Bernard Shaw would have been proud.