Prisoners of Love, Amateurs and Professionals (Old Words #3)
This essay is a slightly revised version of a chapter in Where We Dream, West Bromwich Operatic Society and the
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The pike’s disdain
It has become common these days to speak of a cultural ecology. It’s a good metaphor, which accurately represents the
A child’s view of the Miners’ Strike
Yesterday morning, Margaret Thatcher died. Her death has been followed by an explosion of polemic, encomium and vitriol, about what
On the use of the word ‘professional’
‘Contempt for and indifference toward intellectual passions and creativity where these are not remunerative are precisely concordant with financial hierarchies.
Serious amateurs
The modern system of art is not an essence or a fate but something we have made. Larry Shiner, 2001
Parliament of Dreams 