Since Tony Blair’s election, the creative industries have been the favourite of the Government and the media. But given a chronic lack of social mobility and diversity in the sector, who has really benefitted from Cool Britannia’s legacy, ask Tom Campbell and Homa Khaleeli.
It was the most high-profile moment of New Labour’s “Cool Britannia” campaign: a celebration of a modern, outward-facing Britain with a new kind of industry, and a new kind of workforce.
“We saw it as a chance to redefine what the UK’s economic future would be about,” recalls John Newbigin, then a government special advisor on culture, of Tony Blair’s garish D... Keep reading on The Guardian