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Issue 261: Arts in the third age

  • Arts in the third age

    06 Feb 2013

    Following her coverage of the national  well-being debate and the exclusion of culture from the Office of National Statistics’ measures, Susan Oman looks at its most recent report and discusses what it might signify for culture’s future role in the UK.

    November’s publication of the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) report ‘Measuring national well-being: Life in the UK’ marks two years since David Cameron tasked the ONS with interrogating our  well-being. The report claims to provide “an overview of  well-being in the UK today”, which is “discussed in terms of the economy, people and the environment”. It does this without explaining what exactly is understood by  well-being or how this was conceived.

    Describing the report as a “... more

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