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George Monbiot opines that many problems in the United States can be traced back to terrible structural problems with the education system there (and the consequent rise in religious fundamentalism).
It’s interesting for me to compare the Palestinian territories, where people are trying to fill a total vacuum with creative educational endeavours, to the USA, where […]

Question 3: If you had to pick the perfect essay question for your application, what would it be, and how would you answer it?
What motivates you as a musician?
I was lucky to be introduced to music at an early age, and for it to become a vocation whilst I was still young. So I […]

You might think that an all-Mozart programme in the Berlin Konzerthaus would be the height of stuffy traditionalism, but you’d be wrong.
An 11am concert featuring just such a programme with the excellent violinist Daniel Hope looks fairly predictable on paper, but there were two critical things that this concert-concept had that so many similar […]

"It feels like there’s a shift in consciousness. It feels like something really big and bold has happened here, like nothing ever in our lifetimes did we expect this to happen." - Oprah Winfrey, yesterday, to BBC News

Dictionary of Simonisms:
cultural trendbase
(k?l‘ ch?r-?l tr?nd b?s )

n.
a constantly-developing array of loosely associated creative ideas that affect issues relating predominantly to the arts or to social culture, some of which may gain critical influence and spread memetically as a result of many simultaneous instances of individual manifestation.
(I may revise […]