Jonathan Jones predicts a Conservative government will be a disaster for the arts, with the trouble at the National Gallery an early warning sign.
Labour and the SNP would “tear our nation apart”, warns former Conservative prime minister John Major in the last hours of the 2015 General Election campaign. It’s typical of Tory rhetoric about the “chaos” an Ed Miliband victory might bring.
But the chaos is already here, in microcosm. There is a small part of Britain that has turned into a reenactment of the 1970s, with nothing working and people treated like dirt.
Worse, it is the nation’s front room, right on Trafalgar Square. Mystified visitors from all over the world are witnesses and victims of this debacle... Keep reading on The Guardian
Labour and the SNP would “tear our nation apart”, warns former Conservative prime minister John Major in the last hours of the 2015 General Election campaign. It’s typical of Tory rhetoric about the “chaos” an Ed Miliband victory might bring.
But the chaos is already here, in microcosm. There is a small part of Britain that has turned into a reenactment of the 1970s, with nothing working and people treated like dirt.
Worse, it is the nation’s front room, right on Trafalgar Square. Mystified visitors from all over the world are witnesses and victims of this debacle... Keep reading on The Guardian