Music Teaching
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
