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Keith Rodway For the independent creative artist, there are no pensions, company cars or private health schemes; no gym membership, yoga classes or weekday creche. There is uncertainty and self-doubt; little or no support from the establishment, whose focus is on the mind-numbing mediocrity of cash cows like Lloyd-Webber and JK Rowling; bemusement and incredulity from civilians, those outside the artists’ sphere: you’ve chosen to do what for a living? Recently there has even been, in the devastating wake of the current pandemic, patronising advice to artists from government to ‘retrain’ – a sign, if any were needed, of the institutional philistinism at the heart of British public life. It’s no surprise that the words so many parents dread from their teenage offspring are ‘I want to be an artist’, a career path only marginally preferable to that of a professional assassin, cocaine baron or a Tory MP (or, to my mind, Labour, Lib Dem or indeed an MP of any po ....
The man who recently came to fix my bathroom tap told me that his son, aged 14, was so disillusioned with music being made at the current time for people his age that he decided to have a go at the classics of the 1990s. Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chilli Peppers – and Dinosaur Jr. Not long later he watched a video on Youtube of Dinosaur Jr as they are now, promoting their new LP. He saw a group of middle aged men skateboarding. He was so disgusted he hasn’t listened to them since. Time was that one’s music affiliations were tribal – Beatles vs Stones, Mods vs Rockers, Stax soul vs Motown, punks loathing almost everyone, very often themselves specially. Your music of choice was a key part of your identity, and came with clothes, haircuts, posters on the bedroom wall, and all the rest as part of the package. Music was less widely available as a consumer product, and if you bought an LP it was so expensive you almost had to convince yours ....
INTRODUCTION During the many intense upheavals that occurred in British politics in 2016, accusations were levelled at two prominent female politicians: British newspaper the Independent reported the assertion made by a parliamentary colleague that Liz Kendall, a prospective candidate for British Labour Party leadership ‘would not make a good leader because she does not have children.’ [1] The same argument was advanced, in different form, in respect of Theresa May, British Prime Minister between 2016 – 2019, who was accused by fellow parliamentarian Andrea Leadsom of being unfit for office as leader of the Conservative Party, and by extension, future Prime Minister, because she did not have children. The ....
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