Arts Council England calls last summer's riots 'playful and pervasive'

It has been such a long time since the cultural irrelevance known as ACE last fluttered an eyelid that I was half-hoping it had been declared defunct.

Sadly not. Attention is drawn to a new ACE website, titled SOTA2012, for State of The Arts, something to do with an upcoming conference.

In it, variously officially approved ‘curators’  blog their views.

One post, by ‘SOTA12 co-curator Hannah Nicklin’ is headlined: The UK Riots were a flashmob

She proceeds to explain: ‘The UK riots of the summer of 2011 are definitively a flashmob; flashmobs are not explicitly a game but certainly a first-person playful and pervasive form.’

Playful and pervasive. Go tell that to thousands who lost their businesses, homes and jobs. Further comment is superfluous.

This is state-funded idiocy. The Arts Council should take it down right away.

Better still, the Arts Council should be taken down. It has long outlived its chartered purpose.

A reminder of what these idle idiots are playing with: