Politics & Current Affairs board

[amateur51]

So it would be OK to discuss the Russian government, or agents of the Russian state, influencing, or putting pressure on the writer/director, the production of a film about Tchaikovsky so that it ignored his homosexuality?

Any chance we were separated at birth Flossie? - such a thought popped into my mind too

[french frank]

So it would be OK to discuss the Russian government, or agents of the Russian state, influencing, or putting pressure on the writer/director, the production of a film about Tchaikovsky so that it ignored his homosexuality?

No. The key is in your words "Russian government". It's current affairs and it's the politics of the Russian government.

[amateur51]

Patten v Thompson....http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Pl...eetingId=13785

Can anyone who saw this give us a summary, impressions of who did well and less so, etc please?

[jean]

No. The key is in your words "Russian government". It's current affairs and it's the politics of the Russian government.

Would it be all right to discuss the writer/director involved, without reference to who might have influenced them?

[ahinton]

No. The key is in your words "Russian government". It's current affairs and it's the politics of the Russian government.

I feat that, if all "current affairs" issues that relate to music in some way are to be placed off-limits because in some way they fall under the category of "current affairs", the ultimate outcome would be very restrictive in terms of what can and can't be discussed here; we'd all have, for example, to be extremely careful what we post, if indeed anything, about Joyce DiDonato's recent statements, or Marin Alsop's, or Daniel Barenboim's in the late David Frost's final interview, or Gidon Kremer's "anti-Putin" concert (featuring a number of major names in music performance), or ACE and other funding of musical activity, or all manner of other subjects vastly too many to enumerate here - or am I missing something?...

[jayne lee wilson]

So it would be OK to discuss the Russian government, or agents of the Russian state, influencing, or putting pressure on the writer/director, the production of a film about Tchaikovsky so that it ignored his homosexuality?

A the one who began those two threads which caused so much upset, no-one could have been more put off than I was by their degeneration into repetitive titfortat insults, which is why I stopped contributing to them, except to offer a link update. But there remains the problem of those events where current affairs and art meet (not that I see them as separate anyway...). If a prominent British or European or other composer speaks out against such a film, or if a contemporary composition or music film were to be subject to debate or complaint, in the media or Parliament, because of its sexual or other politics, it would seem a shame for it not to feature on the main board...

But then the risk of insult-trading would return... so I see it is a bit intractable. Perhaps such an event might at least have a What's New link to it on the main board...?

[carol_fodor]

It does start to look like 'sidebarring' the Politics & Current Affairs board has drastically cut down its number of postings: only TWO in the past 20 hours.
sadface:

[teamsaint]

can we still discuss the Lib dems?

[Flosshilde]

No. The key is in your words "Russian government". It's current affairs and it's the politics of the Russian government.

No it isn't - it's about the art of cinema.

How about a discussion about Pussy Riot? According to you it would be impossible, since their raison d'etra is protest against the policies & actions of the Russian government. But they are also an important cultural & artistic phenomenon worth discussion. But it's impossible to separate the artistic from the political, so discussing them would not be permitted.

There was a saying back in the 70's & 80's - 'The personal is the political'.

[Flosshilde]

can we still discuss the Lib dems?

Yes - it's politics that we can't discuss.

[MrGongGong]

can we still discuss the Lib dems?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spent_force

[Beef Oven!]

can we still discuss the Lib dems?

that made my day!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes - it's politics that we can't discuss.

Genius, Flossie - pure genius.

[carol_fodor]

can we still discuss the Lib dems?

Yes of course you 'can' but probably you 'may not'!

[teamsaint]

Yes of course you 'can' but probably you 'may not'!

Please feel free to join the guys over in Pedants Paradise for some cheeky banter !


Edit....has anybody seen Simon?........