the Arts Council, the NPOs, and all those empty spaces …

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I know many arts companies who are relieved today. I know some who are full of fire and determined anyway. I know some who are sad and/or angry (and determined anyway). I know some who weren’t in it, didn’t want to be in it, and don’t care personally, but do feel both happiness and sorrow for their friends and colleagues. And I know people at ACE, and in the NHS, and in Education, who are working bloody hard to make it work from a Treasury that doesn’t want to make it work. A Treasury that has bought into, and wants us to buy into, a belief in lack, in austerity, in not-enough-to-go-around.

Personally, I’m all for old-school redistribution of wealth and a bottom-up not top-down organisation of the sharing of that wealth. However, until the revolution that is truly of the people occurs (the one that never happened yet, anywhere)…

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