Ian Pace
Ian Pace is a pianist and musicologist, and Professor of Music, Culture and Society and University Advisor – Interdisciplinarity at City, University of London but writes here in a personal capacity. He also tweets at @ianpacemain
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
Fanfares for the common man
Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
