Peking gently threatens Britain 🇨🇳🇬🇧 北京温和地威胁英国 Stranger in a strange land 2026-09-20 | Peking gently threatens Britain 🇨🇳🇬🇧 北京温和地威胁英国
I the excluded: Lyn Michelle Heiming, frontrunner in Oxford university chancellor race Stranger in a strange land 2024-11-03 | Ms Heiming writes in her candidate statement: 'The request is, that I should explain why I am a suitable candidate. I shall reverse this and try to understand what would make me an unsuitable candidate. By what criteria would I be excluded? Is it that I am a female physicist, turned wife, mother, teacher and musician? Is it that I put my family before my career to enable my children to have all the benefits that my mother gave me? Is it that I was born in the UK but have lived in France and Germany, can speak fluent French and German, can understand and read Hebrew, Greek and Italian and dabble in many other languages? Is it that I have successfully completed many online Oxford Continuing Education Courses, ranging from politics, economics, theology, reasons for epidemics and mathematics? Is it that I have always been an "All-Rounder" and have a wide knowledge and interest in many different areas of research? Is it that I have done voluntary work in schools, homes for refugees and church? Is it that I studied for a D.Phil in solid-state physics at Wadham College, University of Oxford and a BSc at the University of Birmingham. That I was a fellow at Warwick University, seconded to the Institut Laue Langevin in France? Is it because I do not advertise myself on social networks? Is it because I try to live my life on the prinicples of "Love your Neighbour" and forgiveness? Is it because I have helped pupils, students and adult learners, giving them a chance and a second chance to achieve their academic and personal potential? Is it because I believe in the sharing of knowledge and excellence and world-changing potential of the University of Oxford? Is it because I answered my father, over thirty years ago, when he asked me what my dream job would be, with "The Chancellor of the University of Oxford"? Is it because I am used to investing all my time and energy into causes that are important, that I am enthusiastic and full of ideas? Is it just because I am not famous, not a politician, not a top businessman, not wealthy and have only been mentioned for good deeds in the local "Ruhr Nachrichten" newspaper, not splashed across the front pages of a national newspaper? Is it because I am me?'After centuries of exclusion, for the first time an authentically inclusive, diverse, and open application process has been introduced for the rôle of chancellor of the university. The aim is to attract the very best applicants from the widest possible range of backgrounds and expertise: the legal profession, tour-guiding, animal appreciation, music, the armed forces, environmentalism, gym management, linguistics, zentangle practice, voluntary work, politics, anthropology, swimming, homemaking, art, philanthropy, DEI activism, physics, wealth management, Indian classical vocalism, information technology, schizophrenia, zumba instruction, ethics, women's studies, hiking, LGBTQIA+ advocacy, mentoring, tribalism, Indian sub-continental education, business, urban planning. There is also a wish to draw candidates from a wider range of regions, with a particular focus on the Indian sub-continent, especially the Punjab.
Oxford university chancellor race: candidate statements Stranger in a strange land 2024-11-02 | After centuries of exclusion, for the first time an authentically inclusive, diverse, and open application process has been introduced for the rôle of chancellor of the university. The aim is to attract the very best applicants from the widest possible range of backgrounds and expertise: the legal profession, tour-guiding, animal appreciation, music, the armed forces, environmentalism, gym management, linguistics, zentangle practice, wealth management, voluntary work, politics, anthropology, swimming, homemaking, art, philanthropy, DEI activism, physics, Indian classical vocalism, information technology, schizophrenia, zumba instruction, ethics, hiking, LGBTQIA+ advocacy, mentoring, tribalism, Indian sub-continental education, business, urban planning. There is also a wish to draw candidates from a wider range of regions, with a particular focus on the Indian sub-continent, especially the Punjab.
Kenneth Clark: Civilisation Stranger in a strange land 2024-11-01 | 1969.1. The skin of our teeth2. The great thaw3. Romance and reality4. Man: the measure of all things5. The hero as artist6. Protest and communication7. Grandeur and obedience8. The light of experience9. The pursuit of happiness10. The smile of reason11. The worship of nature12. The fallacies of hope13. Heroic materialism
Donald Trump: the uses of John Bolton Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-31 | Joe Rogan Experience, 2024.
Händel: 6 Concerti Grossi, Op 3 Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-28 | 1739. Georg Friedrich Händel.
Stan Getz: Lonely lady Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-20 | Gasteig, Munich, 1990. Stan Getz: tenor saxophoneKenny Barron: pianoEddie Del Barrio, Frank Zottoli: synthesiserAlex Blake: bassTerri Lyne Carrington: drums
Jason Aldean: Try that in a small town Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-20 | 2023. Kelley Lovelace, Neil Thrasher, Tully Kennedy, Kurt Allison.Sucker-punch somebody on a sidewalk.Car-jack an old lady at a red light.Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store.You think it's cool. Well, act the fool if you like.Cuss out a cop. Spit in his face.Stomp on the flag and light it up.Yeah, you think you're tough.Well, try that in a small town.See how far you make it down the road.Round here, we take care of our own.You cross that line — it won't take longfor you to find out. (I recommend you don't.)Try that in a small town.Got a gun that my grand-dad gave me.They say one day they're gonna round up.Well, that shit might fly in the city. Good luck.Try that in a small town.See how far you make it down the road.Round here, we take care of our own.You cross that line, it won't take longfor you to find out. (I recommend you don't.)Try that in a small townfull of good old boys, raised up right.If you're looking for a fight,try that in a small town. Try that in a small town.Try that in a small town.See how far you make it down the road.Round here, we take care of our own.You cross that line, it won't take longfor you to find out. (I recommend you don't.)Try that in a small town.
Simple Minds: Dont you forget about me Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-18 | Keith Forsey, Steve Schiff, 1985.
Pierre Bachelet: Les corons — the mining zone Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-18 | Pierre Bachelet. Lyrics by Jean-Pierre Lang. 1982.
José Feliciano: California dreamin Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-17 | Summer 1968. Cover of 1963 John & Michelle Phillips song.
Deep Purple: Hush Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-17 | 1968. Cover of Joe South's 1967 composition for Billy Joe Royal.
LGBT+ soldiers play their part in todays Army (1/2) Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-17 | CAMP SQUARE-BASHING — close-order swanning-aboutSquad! Camp it... up!Oooh, get her. Whoops!I've got your number, ducky.You couldn't afford me, dear. Two, three.I'll scratch your eyes out.Don't come the brigadier bit with us, dear,we all know where you've been, you military fairy. Two, three.One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.Ah, whoops! Don't look now, girls,the major's just minced in,with that dolly colour sergeant. Two, three.Oooh!(Monty Python 1972)Everyone in the Army, no matter what their sexual orientation or gender identity, has the right to be treated fairly with dignity and respect. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender soldiers serve throughout the Army's corps and regiments, doing their bit for their country, what's left of it. LGBT+ personnel have the same terms and conditions as everyone else; this includes parental benefits and pension arrangements for same-sex spouses or civil partners. The Army welcomes transgender personnel. If you have completed transition you will be treated as an individual of your affirmed gender.
LGBT+ soldiers play their part in todays Army (2/2) Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-16 | CAMP SQUARE-BASHING — close-order swanning-aboutSquad! Camp it... up!Oooh, get her. Whoops!I've got your number, ducky.You couldn't afford me, dear. Two, three.I'll scratch your eyes out.Don't come the brigadier bit with us, dear,we all know where you've been, you military fairy. Two, three.One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.Ah, whoops! Don't look now, girls,the major's just minced in,with that dolly colour sergeant. Two, three.Oooh!(Monty Python 1974)Everyone in the Army, no matter what their sexual orientation or gender identity, has the right to be treated fairly with dignity and respect. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender soldiers serve throughout the Army's corps and regiments, doing their bit for their country, what's left of it. LGBT+ personnel have the same terms and conditions as everyone else; this includes parental benefits and pension arrangements for same-sex spouses or civil partners. The Army welcomes transgender personnel. If you have completed transition you will be treated as an individual of your affirmed gender.
Couperin: Le tic-toc-choc Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-13 | 1722. François Couperin. Le tic-toc-choc, ou Les maillotins. Grigory Sokolov.
Pergolesi: Stabat mater Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-13 | P. 77. 1736. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.Sabina Puértolas, Vivica Genaux. Les Talens Lyriques — Christophe Rousset.Stabat mater dolorósajuxta Crucem lacrimósa,dum pendébat Fílius.Cuius ánimam geméntem,contristántem et doléntempertransívit gládius.O quam tristis et afflíctafuit illa benedícta,mater Unigéniti!Quae mœrébat et dolébat,pia Mater, dum vidébatnati pœnas ínclyti.Quis est homo qui non fleret,matrem Christi si vidéretin tanto supplício?Quis non posset contristáriChristi Matrem contempláridoléntem cum Fílio?Pro peccátis suæ gentisvidit Jésum in torméntis,et flagéllis súbditum.Vidit suum dulcem Natummoriéndo desolátum,dum emísit spíritum.Eja, Mater, fons amórisme sentíre vim dolórisfac, ut tecum lúgeam.Fac, ut árdeat cor meumin amándo Christum Deumut sibi compláceam.Sancta Mater, istud agas,crucifíxi fige plagascordi meo válide.Tui Nati vulneráti,tam dignáti pro me pati,pœnas mecum dívide.Fac me tecum pie flere,crucifíxo condolére,donec ego víxero.Juxta Crucem tecum stare,et me tibi sociárein planctu desídero.Virgo vírginum præclára,mihi iam non sis amára,fac me tecum plángere.Fac ut portem Christi mortem,passiónis fac consórtem,et plagas recólere.Fac me plagis vulnerári,fac me Cruce inebriári,et cruóre Fílii.Flammis ne urar succénsus,per te, Virgo, sim defénsusin die iudícii.Christe, cum sit hinc exire,da per Matrem me veníread palmam victóriæ.Quando corpus moriétur,fac, ut ánimæ donéturparadísi glória.Amen.The sorrowful mother was standingbeside the Cross weeping,while the Son was hanging.Whose moaning soul,depressed and grieving,the sword has passed through.O how sad and strickenwas that blessed woman,mother of the Only-begotten one!Who was mourning and suffering,the pious Mother, while she was watchingthe punishments of the glorious son.Who is the person who would not weep,if he had seen the mother of Christin such great suffering?Who would not be able to be saddenedto behold the Mother of Christgrieving with the Son?For the sins of his peopleshe saw Jesus in torments,and subjected to lashes.She saw her sweet Sondying forsaken,while he sent forth his spirit.Come now, O Mother, fountain of loveMake me feel the power of sorrowthat I might mourn with you.Grant that my heart may burnin loving Christ the Godthat I might please him.O Holy Mother, may you do that,fix the wounds of the crossmightily in my heart.Of your wounded son,who so deigned to suffer for me,Share his penalties with me.Make me cry dutifully with you,to suffer with him on the cross,as long as I shall have lived.To stand by the Cross with you,to unite me to youin weeping this I desire.O noble Virgin of virgins,Be not bitter with me now,Make me mourn with you.Grant that I might bear the death of Christ,Make me kindred in the passion,and contemplate the wounds.Make me injured by the wounds,make me drunken by the Cross,and by the blood of the Son.Lest I be consumed burned by flames,through you, O Virgin, may I be defendedon the day of judgement.O Christ, when it is time to depart hence,grant me to come through the Mother,to the palm of victory.When the body will decay,grant that it may be bestowed on my soulthe glory of paradise.Amen.
Pergolesi: Confitebor tibi Domine Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-12 | Psalm 111. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. 1732.Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-12 | 1943. Paul Hindemith. Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber.
Charpentier: Sans frayeur dans ce bois Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-12 | For soprano and continuo. 1680. Marc-Antoine Charpentier.Patricia Petibon. Andrea Marcon.Sans frayeur dans ce bois, seule je suis venue.J’y vois Tircis sans être émue.Ah! N’ai-je rien à ménager?Qu’un jeune coeur insensible est à plaindre!Je ne cherche point le danger,mais du moins, je voudrais le craindre.I fearless come into these woods.There I see Thyrsis, and am not stirred.Oh, can't I bring anything to bear?A young heart without feeling is to be lamented.While I do not seek danger in the least,I would at least like to fear it.
Shelley: Ozymandias Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-06 | 1818. Percy Bysshe Shelley. I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said—'Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;And on the pedestal, these words appear:My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!No thing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Berg: Violin Concerto Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-06 | Alban Berg, 1935. Première: Palau de la Música Catalana, April 1936. Dedicated to 'the memory of an angel'.
Rameau: When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-04 | Psalm: In convertendo Dominus. 1710-14. Jean-Philippe Rameau.In convertendo Dominus captivitatem Sion, facti sumus sicut consolati.Tunc repletum est gaudio os nostrum, et lingua nostra exsultatione. Tunc dicent inter gentes: Magnificavit Dominus facere cum eis.Magnificavit Dominus facere nobiscum; facti sumus lætantes.Converte, Domine, captivitatem nostram, sicut torrens in austro.Laudate nomen Deo cum cantico.Qui seminant in lacrimis, in exsultatione metent.Euntes ibant et flebant, mittentes semina sua. Venientes autem venient cum exsultatione, portantes manipulos suos.When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-04 | 1691. Henry Purcell.
Ravel: The Jesters aubade Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-04 | Fourth movement of Mirrors, 1905. Maurice Ravel.
MacNeice: The Truisms Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-03 | 1961. Louis MacNeice.His father gave him a box of truismsShaped like a coffin, then his father died;The truisms remained on the mantelpieceAs wooden as the playbox they had been packed inOr that his father skulked inside.Then he left home, left the truisms behind himStill on the mantlepiece, met love, met war,Sordor, disappointment, defeat, betrayal,Till through disbeliefs he arrived at a houseHe could not remember seeing before.And he walked straight in; it was where he had come fromAnd something told him the way to behave.He raised his hand and blessed his home;And a tall tree sprouted from his father's grave.
Larkin: Going, Going Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-03 | Philip Larkin recites his 1972 poem.I thought it would last my time –The sense that, beyond the town,There would always be fields and farms,Where the village louts could climbSuch trees as were not cut down;I knew there’d be false alarmsIn the papers about old streetsAnd split level shopping, but someHave always been left so far;And when the old part retreatsAs the bleak high-risers comeWe can always escape in the car.Things are tougher than we are, justAs earth will always respondHowever we mess it about;Chuck filth in the sea, if you must:The tides will be clean beyond.– But what do I feel now? Doubt?Or age, simply? The crowdIs young in the M1 cafe;Their kids are screaming for more –More houses, more parking allowed,More caravan sites, more pay.On the Business Page, a scoreOf spectacled grins approveSome takeover bid that entailsFive per cent profit (and tenPer cent more in the estuaries): moveYour works to the unspoilt dales(Grey area grants)! And whenYou try to get near the seaIn summer ...It seems, just now,To be happening so very fast;Despite all the land left freeFor the first time I feel somehowThat it isn’t going to last,That before I snuff it, the wholeBoiling will be bricked inExcept for the tourist parts –First slum of Europe: a roleIt won’t be hard to win,With a cast of crooks and tarts.And that will be England gone,The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,The guildhalls, the carved choirs.There’ll be books; it will linger onIn galleries; but all that remainsFor us will be concrete and tyres.Most things are never meant.This won’t be, most likely; but greedsAnd garbage are too thick-strewnTo be swept up now, or inventExcuses that make them all needs.I just think it will happen, soon.
Hauer: Apocalyptic Fantasy Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-01 | 1913. Apokalyptische Fantasie, Op. 5. Josef Matthias Hauer.
Lully: First air of the Spaniards Stranger in a strange land 2024-10-01 | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LWV 43: 1er Air des Espagnols — Sarabande (1670). Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Myles Raven, Simon Raven, and a nice alcoholic haze Stranger in a strange land 2024-09-30 | Myles Raven ('M.H.N.R.' — on the right in the thumbnail to this video) was a Latin master at Tormore School in Upper Deal. (After its closure, the school was burned down in an insurance job.) He was the younger brother of Simon Raven, the novelist and author of what were reputed by the boys of the school — they had of course never read them but had the right instincts — to be 'dirty books'. The brothers were dipsomaniac homosexuals, although in the case of Myles, there was, according to Simon Raven's biographer, little or no consummation where their shared inversion (learnt at Charterhouse) was concerned. The choleric Myles's real-rent boy, his real gigolo, his real he-whore, was ale, wine, port, whisky, brandy and other liquors, consumed at the Admiral Keppel pub, in his digs, in his Sunbeam Rapier when taking the prettier boys to watch Kent County Cricket Club perform at, say, Canterbury, in the school dining-room, and indeed in the classroom.
Elgar: Lux æterna Stranger in a strange land 2024-09-30 | Edward Elgar. From Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, 1898-99. Vocal arrangement. Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine:Cum Sanctis tuis in æternum:quia pius es.Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine:et lux perpetua luceat eis.May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord,with Thy Saints for evermore:for Thou art gracious.Eternal rest give to them, O Lord,and let perpetual light shine upon them.
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 Stranger in a strange land 2024-09-29 | In C minor, Op. 110. 1960. Dmitri Shostakovich.
Monteverdi: Beatus vir — Psalm 112 Stranger in a strange land 2024-09-27 | Date of musical composition uncertain. Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643). Vulgate:Beatus vir, qui timet Dominum:In mandatis eius rolet nimis.Potens in terra erit semen eius;Generatio rectorum benedicetur.Gloria et divitiae in domo eius;Et justitia eius manet in saeculum saeculi.Exortum est in tenebris lumen rectis.Misericors, et miserator et justus.Jucundus homo qui miseretur et commodat.Disponet sermones suos in judicio:Quia in aeternum non commovebitur.In memoria aeterna erit justus.Ab auditione mala non timebit.Paratum cor eius sperare in Domino;Confirmatum est, cor eius:Non commovebitur,Donec despiciat inimicos suos.Dispersit, dedit pauperibus:Justitia eius manet in saeculum saeculi,Cornu eius exaltabitur in gloria.Peccator videbit, et irascetur;Dentibus suis fremet et tabescet.Desiderium peccatorum peribit. English Bible:Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Webern: Five Movements, Op.5 Stranger in a strange land 2024-09-27 | For string quartert. 1909. Anton Webern.
