The published version of my article on emotional labour is now fully open access. The concept as often used, both sociologically and informally, reveals above all a huge sense of entitlement on the part of both sexes. cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

.@ianpace.bsky.social offers a heartfelt tribute to Michael Finnissy at 80 on Gramophone today: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/content/blogs/a-tribute-to-michael-finnissy-at-80

Don't miss our releases from pianists Da-Hee Kim, Isabelle O'Connell, and Ian Pace in the @prestomusic.bsky.social New Release Round-Up! ➡️ https://sbrew.link/RtgEWJEX

My article ‘What's Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept’, published recently in Café Américain, is now available open access here - openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/37...

My article ‘What's Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept’, published recently in Café Américain, is now available open access here - openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/37...

Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking … the pressures on the conditions for reason ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/radicalisa... #CriticalThinking #InstitutionalIntegrity #Governance

‘Entitled narratives with regard to sex and partnership, whether from the manosphere or from some claiming the mantle of feminism, mostly reveal all too vividly exactly why the writers in question remain single.' cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

‘One view says that men are emotionally stunted and women do all the emotional labour;...the manosphere claims that women demand endless attention and validation and men do all the emotional adjustment' cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

‘customers do not pay solely for e.g. transport, information, or an abstract legal transaction; they equally pay for reduced uncertainty, reassurance, tact, confidence cues, de-escalation, and other aspects of an emotional atmosphere.' cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

‘Much of what I play in live concerts involves conveying intense emotional experiences...Yet I would never dream of calling this “emotional labour” in a pejorative sense...why should many other professions be treated as fundamentally different?' cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

‘If all forms of adaptation are a form of alienation...then most forms of adult life can be framed as oppressive. Grievance can then be switched on at a whim, with a smile rendered as coercion, patience as exploitation' cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

'selective expression, calibration, suppression, tact, ritual and role-play all play significant roles in social interactions..The urge to defend an “authentic” real self only truly makes sense if one lives in a state of isolation akin to that of a hermit.' cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

My new piece for Café Anéricain - interrogating the concept of ‘emotional labour’ both as formally used in sociology, and in journalistic writing, including from frustrated single columnists of both sexes. cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

Kurtág on stage again after his second big birthday concert with its conductor, András Keller

Very pleased to read that a settlement has been reached in the Martin Speake case and that views which do not coincide with those of the ‘woke’ on racial issues are recognised as protected. www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/blog/announc...

"[W]e do live in systems that reward conformity, discourage awkward questions and quietly reshape categories so that certain answers no longer appear..." Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, President of City St George's, University of London, on ideological conformity in academia.

When power demands validation, truth becomes dangerous. Terrific piece by Anthony Finkelstein: open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

Failure to use biological sex as ‘basic variable’ will make research ‘weaker and less reliable’, says City St George’s head Anthony Finkelstein #highered #academicsky

Very moving performance of #Messiaen Quatuor tonight Madeleine Mitchell @ianpace.bsky.social @antoineami.bsky.social & Joseph Spooner

Managed to hear some of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez on Times Radio, unfortunately. I had shut this pet hate out of my mind - I used to use this as an exemplar of the music of post-Civil War Spain in my Music, Fascism, Communism module. Total ‘Viva España’ kitsch. Tagging @evamoreda.bsky.social

Really enjoyed the celebration of Christopher Fox’s 70th @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social with terrific performances by @ianpace.bsky.social Also trying to remember the last time I heard Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstücke in concert…

Tonight at 19:00 at @CityStGeorges - my concert for the 70th birthday of @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social . With music of Schoenberg, Feldman, Walter Zimmermann and Jobina Tinnemans. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Tues 27 Jan 7-9pm Riverhouse Barn Arts #Walton-on-Thames #Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps with @ianpace.bsky.social @anthonyfriend.bsky.social & Joseph Spooner, preceded by the companion play by @jessicaduchen.bsky.social Tx www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/13968... #LondonChamberEnsemble

A personal favourite of my relatively recent writings - two part historiographical article on minimal music, written for a book on the work of Louis Andriessen. Hope some others will find it interesting - available open-access (see thread for part 2). (1) openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

Not until 20 January, but I thought I would do my first post about it now - my 70th birthday tribute concert to Christopher Fox - my first CD released, back in 1998, was of his music. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

London-based lecturer Michael Ben-Gad tells free speech conference: 'They put me in what they think is an IDF uniform, but it was an Air Force major’s uniform'

The Gaza genocide libel: the Big Lie to delegitimise Israel

The targeting of Israeli Professor Michael Ben-Gad: Britain’s academic freedom crisis www.thejc.com/opinion/the-...

My article for The Jewish Chronicle on the Michael Ben-Gad affair, how it emerged and how the response was coordinated, and how it is indicative of wider issues: academic freedom, attempts by far-left activists to censor anyone who disagrees with them, and so on. www.thejc.com/opinion/the-...

Also a great paper from Eddy Campbell on the influence of piobaireachd on Boulez, which was explicit, especially relating to the idea of subsuming a line in grace notes.

During Boulez’s tenure at the New York Philharmonic, one disgruntled letter and Boulez’s response. From a great paper in Edinburgh by Gabryel Smith.

At the impressive Institut Français d’Ecosse for #Boulez symposium, introduced by Eddie Campbell. Great to participate in panel on Pli selon pli with Larson Powell, @ianpace.bsky.social & Michael Spitzer

A new and extremely positive review of my latest Finnissy piano music set. www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/mich...

This week's appalling attacks on Professors Alice Sullivan and Michael Ben-Gad are the tip of the iceberg. They emerge from a culture of impunity on the progressive left - which believes itself above the law, and has too often been permitted to act accordingly. www.edrith.co.uk/p/the-progre...

Universities have obligation to ensure staff can express their views freely Universities have obligation to protect safety of staff What is happening is bullying & harassment of Prof Ben-Gad This is true whether or not one agrees with his views www.standard.co.uk/news/educati...

The Royal Economic Society is deeply concerned by reports that an academic economist has been publicly harassed at a London university because they are Israeli. Read our full statement here: bit.ly/4oAEUaf

I was pleased to speak to Times Radio on the antisemitic campaign against Professor Michael Ben-Gad, listen from 1.25. @sriucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

The situation has escalated since the letter was written, with activists disrupting Michael's lecture earlier this week and making murderous threats. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Today is the last day for signing: we will close it at 17:00 UK time. Please do sign if you haven’t already done so.

The Head of the Department of Economics, Professor Emmanouil Mentzakis, has issued a statement condemning the recent harassment directed at Professor Michael Ben-Gad and reaffirming the values of mutual respect, open debate, and academic freedom. Full statement: www.linkedin.com/posts/emmano...

Solidarity with Michael Ben-Gad.

Das MullahPropagandamedium PressTV auf X beim anmoderieren der IntifadaHassAktion. Keine Lust das live hier zu verbreiten. Geht auf den Link oder sucht es woanders. Zu PressTV de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV /4 x.com/PressTV/stat...

Der Text des SoliBriefes legt nahe, dass die Kampagne schon länger dauert. Ein iranisch staatsunterstützendes Medium überträgt die Aktion. Iran hat ähnlich wie Russland ein großes Interesse Demokratien zu destabilisieren, auch durch MitOrchestrierung dieser Kampagnen/3 bsky.app/profile/ianp...

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Maskierte störten Unterricht des EconomieProfessor Michael BenGad und brüllten ihm - Das Übliche- entgegen. BenGad, Israeli hat seinen Wehrdienst vor Jahrzehnten abgeleistet. btw Video wird von PressTV einem StaatsOutlet des Irans verbreitet (Grund ist klar) z Glück umfangreiche Soli s.u. /1

Please share this letter in support of the City University professor of economics Michael Ben-Gad, who is receiving death threats and harassment, as part of an ongoing campaign to have him sacked owing to his having completed compulsory IDF service 1982-1985.

Open letter in support of Prof Michael Ben-Gad, City University London, targeted and harassed by “students” in a protest group, for no other reason than pure anti-semitism - for being an Israeli Jew. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Professor Michael Ben-Gad at City St George’s, University of London, has been subject to a vicious harassment campaign because he, an Israeli citizen, studied, taught and worked in Israel, and served in the IDF (as all Jewish Israelis must). Please read and sign this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...