James Olsen
James Olsen is a composer, musicologist and music educator. He is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
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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
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
