
An article about a family spending £150,000 on music lessons plays to the gallery of outrage — but overlooks what really matters: the quiet disappearance of accessible, public music education, and the values it instils in young people.

A magazine that appeals to the devotee but steers well clear of superiority and cliques BBC Music Magazine is a publication I’ve returned to in recent months. I’m enjoyed it a lot too. It’s a difficult line to tread editorially: appealing to devotees whilst being welcoming to the curious newcomer. I often feel alienated by…