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James Inverne

James Inverne

James Inverne is a cultural commentator and playwright. He has written for leading newspapers and magazines, including TIME, The Wall Street Journal and the Sunday Telegraph, and was the editor of Gramophone magazine.

Sitting together with other people in a concert hall—sharing the same music in the same moment—dignifies, in the best way, those who play it and those who listen to it.
Your Oscar speech about the Israel-Hamas war was not just simplistic and historically illiterate; it helps Hamas.
It takes intelligence and insight to give a great performance, but those artists who attack Israel are displaying neither.