Category Archives: Politics

Brexit for Musicians: An Englishman Abroad

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Paul Carey Jones

A British musician starts work in the EU – how did he do it? Continue reading →

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Brexit for Musicians: What Happened, What Next?

Posted on January 22, 2021 by Paul Carey Jones

UK artists are in a deep hole – is there any hope of climbing out? Continue reading →

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Coronaclassical 24: Into the Post-Covid World

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Paul Carey Jones

“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Continue reading →

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Giving It Away: Classical Music in Lockdown and other fairytales

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Paul Carey Jones

On sale today: The Book of the Blog Continue reading →

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Coronaclassical 13: The Death of British Opera

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Paul Carey Jones

It’s the perfect storm. And any British opera singer who survives it deserves every reward they get. Continue reading →

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Coronaclassical 2: Giving It Away

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Paul Carey Jones

“Had we already done the work to establish the principle of paying for getting classical music on your TV screen, this could have been a genuine boom time for the industry…” Continue reading →

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Nixon / Nixon / Nixon

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Paul Carey Jones

“…even with such an almost endless wealth of material, both factual and fictional, to chew on, you only ever feel you’re scratching the surface of Nixon’s innermost thoughts and motivations.” Continue reading →

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Save Rhiwbina Library

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Paul Carey Jones

Let’s learn to love and value all libraries, from the biggest to the smallest. Continue reading →

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Vox Populi

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Paul Carey Jones

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth on my social network timelines about the electoral success – or at the very least, media prominence – of UKIP and their equivalents in the run-up to and results of elections … Continue reading →

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There’s no doubting that a decent proportion of operas would comprehensively fail the Bechdel test…. Continue reading →

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Paul Carey Jones | Leave a comment