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A vote for austerity is a vote for death
Warning – this post is quite upsetting, if you are depressed, or likely to become so, have something handy to cheer you up at the end. Any other human being – have some tissues handy… This came into the Artists … Continue reading
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Tagged atos, austerity, bedroom tax, black triangle, dandy party, dwp, election, jsa, vince laws, welfare reforms, work capability assessment
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Blast from the past – how much has changed though?
Just a quicky post re the Election. I was talking about this to someone this morning and got out my great-grandfather’s electoral address for the 1892 London County Council elections. He stood with Lawrence Stevens for the two seats in … Continue reading
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Towards a Progressive Arts Policy – cultural contracts
This week gone by has been another big week for talking about the arts and where we are headed. I was unable to attend the RSA/Arts Council event on their proposal for a Cultural Contract. I did however watch the … Continue reading
Re-Balancing Act
There has been a lot of talk about re-balancing the economy to diminish the dominance of London and boost the ‘regions’ – forgetting of course that London is a region! We have particularly heard about this in the arts and … Continue reading
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Show Culture Some Love
This is a campaign I am running on Facebook and Twitter for Artists Assembly Against Austerity as part of their involvement in the PCS Union conference on the Future of Arts and Culture in Britain. The idea is that on … Continue reading
Dear Labour
Dear Labour I used to love you. I’d like us to get back together, but you’ll have to change. It’s not me it’s you. Once, long ago, that time before, when you weren’t in power, I loved you then. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged education, environment, equality, health, Labour, NHS, society, TTIP, tuition fees
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Hard Times
Throughout September I stood on street corners in Peckham and handed out flyers for the Peckham Fun Palace. Well I tried to. The first set of flyers were designed to encourage people to come forward with ideas and suggestions, or … Continue reading
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Tagged big society, david rawlings, fun palaces, gillian welch, hard times, peckham, plan b, poverty, Sam Kogan, UKIP
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#create365 no.16 a different way of doing things
I was going to title this piece ‘a better way of doing things’ and then I stopped because I wasn’t sure that what we did at the weekend was ‘better’, but it was ‘different’ and it was certainly very enjoyable. … Continue reading
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Things I’d like to see (part 1): Real diversity in the arts
I’ve been thinking a lot, a lot, a lot about this. And, you know me, talking about it quite a bit. The thing about diversity is – it’s quite diverse and there are going to be certain barriers that are … Continue reading
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Tagged all my sons, arts, critics, diversity, education, hamlet, maxine peake, royal exchange manchester, theatre royal plymouth
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