In response to a call in The Guardian to save the arts, Alan Davey warns of an approaching ‘doom loop’, while Susan Jones says the future lies in animating 'levelling up'.
Charlotte Higgins outlines a profound truth in her stirring and timely call to save the arts (Culture is not trivial, it’s about who we are. That’s why Labour needs a plan to save the arts, 26 November). After 13 years of being a punchbag in culture wars or a punchline in sneers at the elite, cultural life and what it means for civic society and its contribution to the economy is in danger.
Incremental cuts to public investment have been bad enough, and at a scale which will be hard for a new government to reverse. But we are approaching a doom loop where less money, less certainty in future funding and a hostile environment to inquiring ideas leads to less risk-taking and new work...Keep reading on The Guardian.
Charlotte Higgins outlines a profound truth in her stirring and timely call to save the arts (Culture is not trivial, it’s about who we are. That’s why Labour needs a plan to save the arts, 26 November). After 13 years of being a punchbag in culture wars or a punchline in sneers at the elite, cultural life and what it means for civic society and its contribution to the economy is in danger.
Incremental cuts to public investment have been bad enough, and at a scale which will be hard for a new government to reverse. But we are approaching a doom loop where less money, less certainty in future funding and a hostile environment to inquiring ideas leads to less risk-taking and new work...Keep reading on The Guardian.