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Patrick Maxwell

(He/Him)
England
As seen in: The National (Scotland), The Big Issue, Politics.co.uk, TechBullion, Bachtrack, Liberal Democrat Voice, The London Magazine, The Article, Comment Central, The Speaker
Covers:  Foreign policy, economic policy, domestic policymaking.
Doesn't Cover: Sport.
Writer and journalist. Contact: patrick.g.maxwell@gmail.com For TheArticle, Big Issue, London Magazine, Politics.co.uk, Classical Music Daily.
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Ofcom was right to pull the plug on China's propaganda channel | TheArticle

Ofcom was right to pull the plug on China's propaganda channel | TheArticle

The Article — A little while ago, I was approached by a producer on Press TV to appear on one of his employer's shows. Once I had got over wondering what misdemeanours I was guilty of to have merited such a request, I swiftly informed him of my lack of keenness for backing up the anti-Semitic narratives and mandated support of the Iranian government in all its evil forms which constitutes the single purpose of that station.
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In this crisis, spare us the costume dramas | TheArticle

In this crisis, spare us the costume dramas | TheArticle

The Article — I very much doubt that, in a couple of generations time, we will be recalling our current predicament with much pleasure or pride. Yet, if I am to be proved wrong on that front, I definitely can't imagine the imagery being particularly glowing.
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The legacy of Dominic Cummings: has anything really changed? | TheArticle

The legacy of Dominic Cummings: has anything really changed? | TheArticle

The Article — For someone who so despised the Westminster clique of which he was a conspicuous part, it's always rather comical to see the different reactions to Dominic Cummings from around that same bubble. Not to mention the voracious appetite for his face in the headlines.
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On Fischer-Dieskau's Schubert. Patrick Maxwell investigates the German baritone's legacy

On Fischer-Dieskau's Schubert. Patrick Maxwell investigates the German baritone's legacy

classicalmusicdaily.com — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012) remains for many who know him a distinctly twentieth-century figure, his voice supposedly reminiscent of a conservative and reliable quality lost to the concert halls and recital platforms he graced for fifty years, and the unending number of recordings which bear his name.
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I'm a lockdown sceptic; just don't call me a killer

I'm a lockdown sceptic; just don't call me a killer

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Celebrating Beethoven: the capacity of a human | TheArticle

Celebrating Beethoven: the capacity of a human | TheArticle

The Article — In Vienna, a seemingly inconspicuous white building lines the street opposite the main university. If you go in, a long, hammering staircase leads up many floors to a small museum. There are never many visitors, the rooms are compact and most of the walls merely decorated with portraits or busts of the same face, staring straight back at you.
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The power and the glory of crowds | TheArticle

The power and the glory of crowds | TheArticle

The Article — Cast your minds back, if you can, to the last time you were in a crowd. What strikes you? Is it the apparent swelling of fellow feeling, of general interest, or of collective emotion at the events you have come to participate in?
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Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe': the drama of Notting Hill's black community | TheArticle

Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe': the drama of Notting Hill's black community | TheArticle

The Article — Sunday evening on BBC 1 is dominated at present by Steve McQueen's Small Axe. This film series of five loosely-linked but self-contained and highly cinematic dramas from the director of 12 Years a Slave is set around the West Indian community in London's Notting Hill.
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Review | Artemisia by Anna Banti - The London Magazine

Review | Artemisia by Anna Banti - The London Magazine

The London Magazine — On 4 August 1944, as the Nazi occupation of Italy was coming to an end, the German forces evacuating Florence unleashed a final barrage of destruction, deploying mines across the city to bring down all but one of the historic bridges which had lined the River Arno for centuries.
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'The Crown' and the monarchy: which soap opera will end first? | TheArticle

'The Crown' and the monarchy: which soap opera will end first? | TheArticle

The Article — As winter approaches, so does another series of The Crown, the lavishly produced series from Netflix. As usual, it offers us a heady dose of palatial splendour, vintage cars and brilliantly overdone acting to calm the spirits as the cold sets in.
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What can Britain take from Biden's victory? | TheArticle

What can Britain take from Biden's victory? | TheArticle

The Article — This month's narrow defeat of the Trump presidency may already have been heralded as a triumph of liberal values over populist forces, yet unfortunately the disputed election created a very different spectacle. The episode many on this side of the Atlantic were hoping for, of a serene path to victory for Joe Biden, did not materialise.
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Dostoevsky - a nineteenth-century prophet | TheArticle

Dostoevsky - a nineteenth-century prophet | TheArticle

The Article — The Golden Age of Russian literature in the nineteenth-century continues to entrance Western readers. To study what created the greatest works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gogol, and Pushkin (along with a swathe of others) is to enter a world of cultural awakening. Russian literature became such a driving force precisely because of the restrictions that the state imposed.
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Exquisite Precision

Exquisite Precision

classicalmusicdaily.com — Beethoven's reputation as being the first true Romantic composer, or at least the bridge between Classicism and its predecessor, has never been sufficiently tainted. His early works show the distinct effect of Mozart and his teaching by Haydn, but also display the largesse and splendour that would characterize his more groundbreaking and life-affirming later works.
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Essay | Dostoevsky and Poor Folk by Patrick Maxwell - The London Magazine

Essay | Dostoevsky and Poor Folk by Patrick Maxwell - The London Magazine

The London Magazine — Wilfred Owen perhaps captured the national spirit best when he talked of the 'drawing-down of blinds', surely the most succinct depiction of English melancholia. The English spirit - distinct from of Britishness, though also a part of it - is one of deep decline under the shadow of former empire.
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The liberal movement faces extinction | TheArticle

The liberal movement faces extinction | TheArticle

The Article — In recent decades, the idea of liberalism has wavered in both its importance and definition. To call someone a liberal today is to associate them with the ideas of social liberalism, with "political correctness", and, in the current British landscape, Remainarism.
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Auden - a poet of our times | TheArticle

Auden - a poet of our times | TheArticle

The Article — WH Auden was a uniquely modern poet and one who speaks unmistakably to our modern times. He came of age at a moment when the intellectual elites of Europe were in tumult over the rise of dictators across the continent, and was one of the few writers to come out of the period alive in body and soul.
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Highly Enjoyable

Highly Enjoyable

classicalmusicdaily.com — It would be easy to believe that Johannes Brahms was living in a time that was bound to create the most brilliant music, with the volatile German political climate, the influence of Beethoven and Schubert, and the high-point of the Romantic era, being the perfect setting for music such as that he produced.
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Where did it all go wrong for the Lib Dems? | TheArticle

Where did it all go wrong for the Lib Dems? | TheArticle

The Article — This election was supposed to signal the revival of the Liberal Democrats. After their drubbing in 2015, Jo Swinson's election as leader in July offered a new hope that successes in the European and local elections would transform into a healthy number of Parliamentary seats.
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Essay | Reflections on The Brothers Karamazov by Patrick Maxwell - The London Magazine

Essay | Reflections on The Brothers Karamazov by Patrick Maxwell - The London Magazine

The London Magazine — Patrick Maxwell Reflections on The Brothers Karamazov In his masterpiece, Enemies of Promise (1938), Cyril Connolly distinguishes between two different styles of writing, which he terms as the 'Mandarin' and the 'Vernacular'. In the former group: Edward Gibbon, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce; among the latter: William Hazlitt, George Orwell, and Christopher Isherwood.
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Deeply Humane

Deeply Humane

classicalmusicdaily.com — The music of John Dowland, although composed around the same time as Tallis and Byrd, has a unique feature in its historic popularity when first performed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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Chopin Piano Works

Chopin Piano Works

classicalmusicdaily.com — The piano works of Frédéric Chopin stand in the middle of the two sections of the 'Bible' for the instrument: Bach's Preludes and Fugues and Beethoven's thirty-two Sonatas. Chopin's Preludes and Études are short works, and most of his compositions make up small, seemingly unconnected pieces, each of which shows a genius that captured the Parisian imagination almost two hundred years ago and still does today.
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The First Week of Many

The First Week of Many

Comment Central — Campaigning for the 2019 General Election is underway so Patrick Maxwell is here to provide you with analysis of the first week. Calling a December election was always going to be a considerable risk. Perhaps riskier than Theresa May's forlorn hopes in 2017.
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Essay | Tony Harrison: Poetry & Class - The London Magazine

Essay | Tony Harrison: Poetry & Class - The London Magazine

The London Magazine — Patrick Maxwell Tony Harrison: Poetry & Class The use of poetry as a form of class war has arguably never had particularly significant results in much of literary history, perhaps due to the fact that vitriol and verbose anarchy make it difficult for prose and poetry to endure.
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Review | A Frank O'Hara Notebook by Bill Berkson - The London Magazine

Review | A Frank O'Hara Notebook by Bill Berkson - The London Magazine

The London Magazine — A Frank O'Hara Notebook, Bill Berkson, No Place Press, 2019, 278 pp, £35.00 (hardcover) Frank O'Hara's poetry has previously been written to be like 'entries in a diary', his work more like an autobiographical depiction of his daily life than a solemn portrait of life itself.
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