"The arms race for cultural dominion has reached new levels of absurdity"

The decision to build the London Centre for Music less than 300 metres away from an existing concert hall is the latest unnecessary example of global high-culture one-upmanship, says Phineas Harper. It has been 60 years since Welsh theorist and critic Raymond Williams wrote that "culture is ordinary". Williams, who had grown up in foot...

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