I know I said I wouldn’t do this, but I have to plug one more article on the New Deal of the Mind. Suzanne Moore make a great contribution to the debate in Downing Street on Tuesday by warning that the initiative must not become just another opportunity for the arts lobby to hand out the begging bowl.
Suzanne’s Mail on Sunday column this weekend captures the spirit of the summit meeting and the philosophy of the enterprise:
“It is an urgent situation and amazingly everyone there realised it and started putting some money on the table.
Trevor Phillips committed up to a million then and there. Jenny Abramsky of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Jude Kelly, who is also responsible for some of the Olympics money, agreed to look at projects they could fund.
Everyone knows this Government does not have money to spare, but we cannot afford to waste the skills of this and the next generation.
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