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I’m here to buy a Range Rover – no one mentioned a passenger: the Stephen Collins cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

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Hallé: Huw Watkins album review – Covid-era commissions capture energy and hope after lockdown

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

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Watkins’s symphony, fanfare and concerto make for a spirited showcase of the orchestra’s clean harmonies

This recording is a celebration of what a fruitful relationship between a composer and an orchestra can be, as well as a souvenir of uneasy times. The Hallé co-commissioned Huw Watkins ’ second symphony, having premiered his first; it was written amid Covid lockdowns and recorded for a filmed concert in spring 2021. Concurrently, Watkins wrote Fanfare for the Hallé, which in November 2020 was one of the first works played and recorded in the Bridgewater Hall after nine months of silence.

These energised performances, with Mark Elder conducting, are a tribute to the musicians’ resilience. In the symphony, tiny woodwind tendrils unfurl and curl around one another, creating a feeling of irresistible growth and motion, and turning into cartwheeling cascades. The slow movement has the feeling of a nocturne: gauzy, muted textures with glints of light, framing music of high agitation.

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I’m here to buy a Range Rover – no one mentioned a passenger: the Stephen Collins cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

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Hallé: Huw Watkins album review – Covid-era commissions capture energy and hope after lockdown

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

(Hallé)
Hallé/Elder
Watkins’s symphony, fanfare and concerto make for a spirited showcase of the orchestra’s clean harmonies

This recording is a celebration of what a fruitful relationship between a composer and an orchestra can be, as well as a souvenir of uneasy times. The Hallé co-commissioned Huw Watkins ’ second symphony, having premiered his first; it was written amid Covid lockdowns and recorded for a filmed concert in spring 2021. Concurrently, Watkins wrote Fanfare for the Hallé, which in November 2020 was one of the first works played and recorded in the Bridgewater Hall after nine months of silence.

These energised performances, with Mark Elder conducting, are a tribute to the musicians’ resilience. In the symphony, tiny woodwind tendrils unfurl and curl around one another, creating a feeling of irresistible growth and motion, and turning into cartwheeling cascades. The slow movement has the feeling of a nocturne: gauzy, muted textures with glints of light, framing music of high agitation.

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I’m here to buy a Range Rover – no one mentioned a passenger: the Stephen Collins cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

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Hallé: Huw Watkins album review – Covid-era commissions capture energy and hope after lockdown

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

(Hallé)
Hallé/Elder
Watkins’s symphony, fanfare and concerto make for a spirited showcase of the orchestra’s clean harmonies

This recording is a celebration of what a fruitful relationship between a composer and an orchestra can be, as well as a souvenir of uneasy times. The Hallé co-commissioned Huw Watkins ’ second symphony, having premiered his first; it was written amid Covid lockdowns and recorded for a filmed concert in spring 2021. Concurrently, Watkins wrote Fanfare for the Hallé, which in November 2020 was one of the first works played and recorded in the Bridgewater Hall after nine months of silence.

These energised performances, with Mark Elder conducting, are a tribute to the musicians’ resilience. In the symphony, tiny woodwind tendrils unfurl and curl around one another, creating a feeling of irresistible growth and motion, and turning into cartwheeling cascades. The slow movement has the feeling of a nocturne: gauzy, muted textures with glints of light, framing music of high agitation.

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Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

Children may be forcibly removed from the UK in handcuffs to “overcome noncompliance” as part of new proposals Home Office is considering to send more asylum seeker families back to their home countries.

Since coming into office, the government has pledged to deport more migrants and has increased both voluntary and enforced returns, although some of those who have left the UK voluntarily did so without informing the Home Office.

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Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

Children may be forcibly removed from the UK in handcuffs to “overcome noncompliance” as part of new proposals Home Office is considering to send more asylum seeker families back to their home countries.

Since coming into office, the government has pledged to deport more migrants and has increased both voluntary and enforced returns, although some of those who have left the UK voluntarily did so without informing the Home Office.

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Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

Children may be forcibly removed from the UK in handcuffs to “overcome noncompliance” as part of new proposals Home Office is considering to send more asylum seeker families back to their home countries.

Since coming into office, the government has pledged to deport more migrants and has increased both voluntary and enforced returns, although some of those who have left the UK voluntarily did so without informing the Home Office.