This week I attended an amazing performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion. It was an appropriate time of year to hear the piece: Bach's thorny harmonies reminded us that Advent is a penitential season. The setting was nicely sinister: an underground warehouse near Baker Street. One choir was behind me, the other opposite, and the staging dragged us into the action. The evangelist would start singing into my left ear, then push past on his way to the action. Suzi Digby conducted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as part of . I don't know about them, but I felt I was hearing the Passion for the first time. I still haven't recovered.Mr May has been an outspoken critic of the cull, claiming it is not only cruel but could make the spread of bTB worse by encouraging badgers to move around more. He has insisted the public do not want it to go ahead and compared it to "genocide".

ME: Yes! No! I dont know! Shes my sister and my daughter!

Mainstream media: yes, this was a great story. And yes, it damaged Mitt Romney, even though he doesn't have the power to force out Akin. I don't blame those liberal journalists who are on a crusade to ensure the re-election of Barack Obama for harping on about it. But now you're boring the pants off everyone. Time to move on and unearth another Republican scandal, don't you think?Yesterday afternoon, as?, I posed the following question on Twitter: "Is it compatible with Sharia Law to use your wife as a human shield? Or only if she's committed adultery?"

At the same time, I am full of respect for the remaining participants in the Big Dance, some of whom clearly have little experience but have hurled themselves at it anyway. A group of young people, representing the Chickenshed Theatre in Southgate, perform a short piece that they have evolved with the guidance of Mangiolo. They are oddly moving to watch: forceful, intense, wonderfully concentrated. "I didnt know you could dance like that!" one of them says to a boy who has just leapt and twirled around the floor. "Nor did I," he replies, as if in amazement at what he has learnt about himself.

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