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Culture
In the wake of Lord Melvyn Bragg's House of Lords debate on the vital importance of the arts to the UK's society and economy, composer Howard Goodall makes an urgent call for the Government to rethink its proposed further reduction of resources for musical education
The deep and crucial reason why Trump could win again. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29th January 2024 Many explanations are proposed for the continued rise of Donald Trump, and the steadfastness of his support, even as the outrages and criminal charges pile up. Some of these explanations are powerful. But there is […]
UFOs are in. The current wave of enthusiasm began in 2017 when major newspapers reported...
The Prime Minister's attempts to wage a culture war with Keir Starmer have ended up doing far more damage to himself than the Labour Leader
Museums across the country are being forced to close as the reality of austerity-struck Brexit Britain hits home
Cloying sentimentality, saccharine pablum, ridiculous camp and embarrassing kitsch—in the contemporary moment the word “angel”...
Geopolitics of knowledge is a fact. Only few (conservative) colleagues would contend otherwise. Ingrid Robeyns wrote an entry for this blog dealing with this problem. There, Ingrid dealt mostly with the absence of non-Anglophone colleagues in political philosophy books and journals from the Anglophone centre. I want to stress that this is not a problem […]
Forget ugly sweater parties, this is our new national Christmas tradition: 1) a public venue...
In advance of the Catholic Church’s recent global gathering, Pope Francis raised the hopes of...