We just don’t know how lucky we are.

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Last week I attended a memorial service for a man who had a great influence on my life. Norman Routledge was my housemaster at school nearly 40 years ago.  He saw me through what were unquestionably my most challenging and yet formative years. There was a service in...

The trouble with aspiration.

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I used to teach young people how to play the clarinet or saxophone.  Usually when they had got bored with playing the recorder and fed up with joint music lessons at school (how DO you teach a room full of kids to play whatever instrument they might be holding, all at...