Rishi Sunak’s Theatre of the Absurd
Oh God, What Now?
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The Politics of Ivory Instruments
I woke border control, bans ivory instruments from entering England. There's something about opera that I think has a profound appeal to politicians and not just because they so often go there on jollies. But there's a feeling that British musical culture in particular is so strong that it can fend for itself. In new Labour, there was this desire to show that they were all about pop rather than elite culture as well. And that kind of mentality has extended to the idea of giving special treatment to musicians post-Brexit. It's fundamentally complacency, I think. We have Glastonbury, right? We have Glynborn, greatest festivals of their kind in the world, aren't
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