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At the chalkface: Culture Vultures

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I don’t want to go all Goebbels, but maybe we should just ban the word. Are we talking Matthew Arnold here? Raymond Williams? Levi Strauss? Or raffia work? Train spotting? Brass rubbing? Who knows? He probably means the highbrow stuff peddled by my old gr

The arts, the report continues, are still too much the preserve of a complacent, White, middle class. Well, yes. We’ve been banging on about this for yonks. Who has ever listened?

Well, maybe Ed Miliband. When Labour win the election – and QPR the league and me the Booker and world peace breaks out – he promises to put “creative education at the heart of Labour’s Mission”. Yippee! He told this to something called “Creative Industries Federation”. Dear me. Who they? An oxymoron? “Culture” shouldn’t be so corporate.

And what does he mean by “creative education”? What’s the other kind? And what does the Warwick Commission mean by “culture”?

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