Rosemary Goring rebuffs emotive calls for cuts to Scottish Youth Theatre to be overturned, saying the national funding system will not get better or fairer if sense is easily overruled by sensibility.
WORKING for an arts funding organisation should, like bull-fighting or deep sea diving, be listed under hazardous occupations. The flak thrown in recent years at Creative Scotland – and I’ve lobbed a fair share myself – makes you wonder if staff wear bullet-proof vests beneath their suits, or are trained in self-defence.
Following every funding cycle, there are predictable, low-level stramashes involving thos... Keep reading on Herald Scotland
WORKING for an arts funding organisation should, like bull-fighting or deep sea diving, be listed under hazardous occupations. The flak thrown in recent years at Creative Scotland – and I’ve lobbed a fair share myself – makes you wonder if staff wear bullet-proof vests beneath their suits, or are trained in self-defence.
Following every funding cycle, there are predictable, low-level stramashes involving thos... Keep reading on Herald Scotland