Just in case anyone\u2019s been reading Private Eye\u2019s charming little write-up of the LPO\u2019s situation, I\u2019d like to point out the following errors in their report, if you can call it a report:<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago I deleted a blogpost on the topic at the request of my husband. In it I had not \u201cleaked\u201d any \u201cinside information\u201d. Indeed, I had not written anything that had not already been plastered all over the Evening Standard<\/em> and the Daily Mail<\/em> \u2013 which sadly have slightly larger readerships than we do. I assume PE was referring to us, since I don\u2019t know of another LPO \u201cwife\u201d who writes a blog.<\/p>\n Nor was my husband \u201cread the riot act\u201d. He asked me to delete the post because he personally felt uncomfortable about it \u2013 in my opinion unnecessarily so. He is a nice sensitive fellow when he wants to be, and I happen to live with him, so on this occasion I decided to agree. Besides, if anyone at the orchestra wanted to take me to task about anything, they would phone me in person, or collar me in the RFH bar. They would not have to go through my husband. Why does Private Eye think they would? Where do these sexist twerps think we are \u2013 under Taliban rule?!?<\/p>\n And while we\u2019re on the subject, what PE describes as the orchestra\u2019s \u201crecent\u201d rescue package took place 10 years ago or thereabouts, when pretty much every arts organisation in the country needed one too. Admittedly, in the grand scheme of things, a decade or so is<\/em> recent, compared to, say, the sinking of the Titanic or the demise of the dinosaurs. <\/p>\n Have a nice weekend, folks. The music ain\u2019t gonna stop, so do come to the Asrael Symphony. Vladimir will be doing \u2018Barlines\u2019 in the bar, I mean the ballroom, afterwards \u2013 informal discussion post-concert \u2013 and I have the rather nice task of introducing him this time. See you there. <\/p>\n <\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just in case anyone’s been reading Private Eye’s charming little write-up of the LPO’s situation, I’d like to point out the following errors in their report, if you can call it a report:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h3>\n