Lindsay Johns is a writer and broadcaster. He has written for the Evening Standard, The Times, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph, as well as Prospect and The Spectator magazines in the UK. He also writes regularly for The Root in the USA, for the Cape Argus in South Africa and often appears on BBC TV and radio. |
Instrumental music: should music be a tool of social policy?
"In few places does the free exchange of views take place on so wide a range of issues as at the Battle of Ideas. Whatever the headlines of 2011 prove to be, the Battle of Ideas is where they will be most robustly debated."
Andrew Copson, chief executive, British Humanist Association