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Kevin Rush

@sorreltiger.bsky.social
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Retired teacher, now running Leicester International Music Festival. Interested in all kinds of music, theatre, art, books, walking, cycling, wildlife, cooking, watching sport. Leicester Tigers STH for 30+ years!

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 24/08/2026
Estimates suggest over 21,000 social care workers were underpaid the minimum wage in 2024. The true figure is likely higher still once we account for the unpaid travel time which often brings home carers’ average pay below the minimum wage. Read more 👉 buff.ly/87cXtSI
Bar chart showing share of workers on the National Living Wage underpaid by sector in the UK (2024), with education highest (~55%) and social care highlighted at 22% — about 21,300 care workers underpaid.
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Join us for our festival 17-19 September, with 8 brilliant musicians coming to the beautiful Hansom Hall in the heart of Leicester. Tickets and details at: www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
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First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Your frequent reminder that Farage wants to frack the UK - in multiple ways - and that doing so won’t make a blind bit of difference to energy bills It would, however, make us more dependent on volatile fossil fuels, make the climate crisis worse & industrialise the countryside Don’t vote Reform
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A massive privilege to present this today.
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
What a great lunchtime concert by the Paddington Trio yesterday at Hansom Hall - their playing is so nimble and full of energy. We would love to have them back!
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What a great start to a new season! We welcomed a large audience to Hansom Hall and Sasha Grynyuk kept them enthralled with a sparkling hour of magnificent playing. As someone said on the way out, our Steinway sounded like an orchestra today.
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Great to hear the cheers for our marvellous players at the end of last night's concert - the first of our four-day festival. Join us at Hansom Hall 1pm today for our lunchtime concert with Nicholas Daniel (oboe); Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) and Charles Owen (piano). wegottickets.com/event/672184
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2025
Sanders: “What are the long-term implications for the well-being of our kids and the country if faith in vaccine science is undermined?” Dr. Monarez: “Preventable diseases will return. I believe that we will have our children harmed for things that we know they do not need to be harmed by.”
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A week today, we will be enjoying our 2025 Festival Lunchtime Concert at the lovely Hansom Hall, with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) & Charles Owen (piano). Join us for great music by Schubert, Ravel & our composer-in-residence, Emma-Ruth Richards. wegottickets.com/event/672184
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Leicester International Music Festival 2025: Concert 2, 'The Wanderer'
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Charles Owen (piano) Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano 18’ Ravel: Waltzes Nobles et Sentimentales 15’ Emma-Ruth Richards: De Stamparare for solo o...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Our government is not defending us www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... The UK is facing the greatest existential threat since WW II and Labour is hoping we won’t notice.
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Our government is not defending us
As The Guardian reports this morning: Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to...
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#LIMF2025 featuring Franz Schubert, who still breaks and mends hearts in equal measure; Maurice Ravel, whose 150th birthday we celebrate, and Emma-Ruth Richards, who brings a bold and deeply personal voice to the festival. Join us 17-20 September. www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
World-class chamber music in the East Midlands this autumn! #Leicester
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
They are supposed to be an organisation that protects wildlife - not sanctioning the hunting of birds! Shame on @naturescot.bsky.social
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Random Bits @rand0mb1tsuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal – but says it comes four years too late Simon Spurrell was forced to sell his business because of £600,000 loss caused by Brexit red tape www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal – but says it comes four years too late
Simon Spurrell was forced to sell his business because of £600,000 loss caused by Brexit red tape
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
That's 95k! We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament. Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We’re looking forward to this and would love you to join us at Hanson Hall, Thursday 1pm: wegottickets.com/event/630543
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Oliver Pashley (clarinet) & George Fu (piano)
Oliver Pashley is a clarinettist based between London and St Leonards-on-Sea. He is a founding member of contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment and holds the position of Sub-Principal Clarinet wit...
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A magnificent lunchtime recital by Fiachra Garvey at Hansom Hall today, and it was great to that there was a capacity audience to enjoy such wonderful playing and such incredible sounds. Impossible not to be moved by the 'Great Gate at Kiev' which closed the concert - an anthem for our times.
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We have a fabulous piano recital for you this Thursday lunchtime, 1pm at Hansom Hall, Belvoir St. Fiachra Garvey will play Gershwin 'Rhapsody in Blue', Debussy, Albéniz, Mendelssohn & Mussorgsky 'Pictures'. We'd love you to join us! Full details & tickets: wegottickets.com/event/630538
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Fiachra Garvey (piano) - LIMF Lunchtime Concert 11
1st prizewinner at the 2012 Jaques Samuel Competition, London, Fiachra Garvey ARAM, has performed in venues from the Fazioli Auditorium in Italy to London’s Wigmore Hall. ‘…brings a deep and infectio...
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned. We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures. Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post! Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 03/03/2025
If Trump was President in 1940
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This ridiculous @telegraphnews.bsky.social story www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02... clearly placed by BASC, should persuade you to sign this act.wwt.org.uk/page/160992/... asking Defra to ban lead ammunition. It's the ammo that is poisonous, silly!
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Boss of wildfowl charity who suggested ‘all game is poisonous’ attended meat awards
Charity is accused of shooting itself in the foot after it emerges Sarah Fowler, its chief executive, was a guest at Eat Game Awards
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 06/02/2025
The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan... mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...
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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan
To America where Elon Musk, the world’s most economically wealthy and spiritually impoverished man, is staging a coup.
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Looking forward to presenting this today - I'd love to see you there!
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We’re all immune to it at this point but we have to remind ourselves that this is an abomination. A catastrophe. A grotesque corruption. And a betrayal of the millions who fought and sacrificed in the great wars of the 20th Century to escape a world that works like this.
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/01/2025
“The whole of the UK is multicultural. We’ve always had people from different parts of the world come and be with us. It’s how we make the most of everyone, how we make it work. Because when it works, it is beautiful and it is something to be celebrated.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Tory focus on immigration helped stoke riots, equalities committee chair says
Exclusive: Sarah Owen warns Reform MPs are making task of strengthening UK communities more urgent
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
What a superb lunchtime concert today by Mathilde Milwidsky & Huw Watkins at Hansom Hall - a great way to end 2024 😍
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We have a lovely concert for you in #Leicester today (1-2pm): Mathilde Milwidsky and Huw Watkins at the historic Hansom Hall, playing music by Ravel, Boulanger, Marsalis and Huw Watkins himself. Do join us! wegottickets.com/event/630522
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Mathilde Milwidsky (violin) and Huw Watkins (piano) - LIMF Lunchtime Concert 6
“The performance, needless to say, was a tour de force… it made this second concert in the Musica Viva Series probably the finest violin and piano duo recital heard in the city for a number of years.”...
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…
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Benjamin Fallow 💚 @benjaminfallow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
'I drew this age 8, to help the Hen Harriers✨They’re called sky-dancers! Burning moorlands threaten their habitats💔 Please share and sign this petition to stop the burning!’ 🙏 🪶 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... @wildjustice.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Looking forward to introducing this concert - reviews promise something special: 'Billed as a journey of self discovery, it contained some glorious singing and a lot of interesting anecdotes about her life from Rebecca herself....Just a stunning performer using her powerful vocals to entertain.'
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Nick Drake passed 50 years ago today; and initially, I was going to post Road, or something darker from Pink Moon. But instead, here's something more uplifting, to celebrate, rather than mourn. youtu.be/EZ5X4qesLRs?...
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PS22 Chorus "Northern Sky" Nick Drake (ft. Clive)
YouTube video by PS22 Chorus
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Good morning! Our petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... has just passed 10,000 signatures so Defra must respond. Thank you to 9,999 others who have signed it! But we shouldn't stop there - please share and promote so that we reach 100,000 signatures and get a parliamentary debate.
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"Brexit has been a catastrophe" ........ and not just for the music industry. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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‘Brexit is hell,’ artists say as report reveals toll of EU exit on musicians
Brexit has been ‘a catastrophe’ for the industry, with nine in 10 artists facing a hit to their earnings, UK Music’s annual economic report said
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
'This season’s Lunchtime Series continued on its merry way with another hugely successful recital, this time given by the guitarist Jack Hancher.' Leicester Concert-goer really enjoyed last week's concert at Hansom Hall. #Leicester #classicalmusic #guitar leicesterconcertgoerdiary.wordpress.com
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The Diary of a Leicester Concert-goer
News and Reviews of professional classical music in the city.
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Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Our next Lunchtime Concert features music theatre royalty Rebecca Caine & pianist, Nathan Martin. Join us for Dividing Day, a journey of self discovery, inc Bernstein, Sondheim, Weill, at Hansom Hall Thursday 28th Nov 1-2 pm. Tickets £17 (free for U25s) wegottickets.com/event/630520
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Rebecca Caine (soprano) & Nathan Martin (piano) - LIMF Lunchtime Concert 5
International opera singer and actress Rebecca Caine created the role of Cosette in Les Miserables for the RSC and was a celebrated Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera in the West End and her nativ...
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Really noticeable that the arts/culture world hasn't yet caught up with the move to this platform. It's hard to sacrifice the reach of the 'other place' when you're trying to get bums on seats. Pleased to say, my organisation @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social is one of the few - please follow us!
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
OK UK Bluesky, how quickly can we get this petition to 100,000 signatures? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... An EU-UK Youth Mobility Scheme is key to resetting the UK-EU relationship, would be good for young UK citizens, and is supported by a clear majority of UK voters. (1/3)
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Looking forward to presenting this today!
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Kevin Rush @sorreltiger.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Looking forward to introducing this tomorrow!
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