What’s wrong with Lord Berkeley’s question about singing
UncategorizedMichael Berkeley has posted this question in the House of Lords to the Culture Secretary:
My Lords, Why is there such a disconnect between the Government rules for football and those for culture? Quite apart from the terrible problems facing travelling artists, seeing on TV happy revellers at matches, inside bars and pubs over the weekend, the points that that Barbara Keeley MP and I made in our APPG Classical Music letter to Oliver Dowden last week are all the more germane – Is it not utterly ridiculous that shouting, chanting and drinking fans can congregate and hug each other but a small amateur, vaccinated and socially distanced choir cannot meet to rehearse?
What’s wrong is the disparagement of football fans, not all of whom are ‘shouting, chanting and drinking’.
This question loses more supporters than it gains.
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