“When one has the opportunity to do what one wishes, one not only should do so, but one has to.”

Malvern is the land modernity forgot.

A taste of palpable history and noblesse oblige.

While we must admire the struggle they went through, appreciate that they built a better life for their descendants, and we must ‘preserve the fire’ that they bequeathed to us.

There is no going back, only forward.

We are not simply a makeup of molecules or a distant cousin of Chimpanzees; we are the glory of the past, and the hope of the future.

Now that state (and increasingly local) venues are programmed along quota lines, with demographic characteristics of creators prioritised over merit, ambitious and talented artists find themselves marginalised as never before.

We as a society have forgotten the need to cherish those things we have, to maintain them rather than take them for granted