A working class woman goes to the opera. And not just any old opera, but Glyndebourne, the über poshest of all (British) opera. My goodness - whatever next?! The snobbery that says that opera, and other high culture, is only for the privileged, the rich and the powerful, is a particularly insidious kind of prejudice. [...]
As the weeks turn into months for the people of Ukraine, and as Russia threatens to consolidate the most ambitious of its ‘frozen conflicts’, the liberal democracies have so far maintained their focus. This was probably the last thing Vladimir Putin expected. He launched this adventure on the assumption that we in the West are [...]
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