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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
