In the new issue of Standpoint magazine, I examine what has gone wrong with arts funding in Britain and propose ten concrete measures for redeeming it. Contrary to popular myth, I do not advocate the abolition of Arts Council England, alien though it has become from its Keynesian core purposes.
However, if Maynard Keynes’s vision is to be renewed in an era of financial strictures, the Arts Councils that he invented will need root-and-branch reform in order to be fit for their chartered purpose. Heads will have to roll. More importantly, priorities will need to be rewritten.
Ten ways to save arts funding.
though I’m sure you’ll be far happier if you subscribe to Daniel Johnson’s excellent magazine.
In the new issue of Standpoint magazine, I examine what has gone wrong with arts funding in Britain and propose ten concrete measures for redeeming it. Contrary to popular myth, I do not advocate the abolition of Arts Council England, alien though it has become from its Keynesian core purposes.
However, if Maynard Keynes’s vision is to be renewed in an era of financial strictures, the Arts Councils that he invented will need root-and-branch reform in order to be fit for their chartered purpose. Heads will have to roll. More importantly, priorities will need to be rewritten.
Ten ways to save arts funding.
though I’m sure you’ll be far happier if you subscribe to Daniel Johnson’s excellent magazine.
BBC News
Greg Wood, News Correspondent for the BBC, is to join Centrica in January as Head of Corporate Media Relations and will report to Mish Tullar, Director of Group Media Relations. In his new role, Greg will help embed Centrica’s growth story across the media highlighting its significant upstream investment programme in gas, nuclear and renewables and the transformation of British Gas from an energy utility to an energy services business. Prior to returning to London in November 2009 to take up his post as a BBC News Correspondent based at TV Centre, Greg was with the BBC in New York covering the US economy over the 2008 presidential election. Before this he was a Business Correspondent on the BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. Until he leaves in January, Greg can be reached atgreg.wood@bbc.co.uk
Hallo there! Significant upstream investment programme? What language are we speaking here? And the difference between an energy utility and an energy services business is what, exactly?
The business of these people is to obfuscate, not communicate. So why hire a journalist? To ’embed Centrica’s growth story’. Obviously.
