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As an artist or musician don’t retrain or rethink

It’s extremely hard to accept the words coming from a politician’s mouth, particularly when they are the richest person in the House of Commons with a property portfolio in the UK and America worth around £10 million.

I’m of course talking about Rishi Sunak who has been interpreted to have said in an ITV interview “Musicians and others in the arts should retrain and find other jobs.”

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Woody Allen, post-truth and the court of public opinion

To ban a book because you don’t agree with its content is one thing, to stop a book being published because you don’t agree with an allegation against the author that has been proven to be false ‘twice’ in the court of law is madness. But this is a sign of the times. The post-truth period in which we currently live in.

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