A recent article in the Guardian talks of the cuts in arts funding saying:
The matched nature of most arts funding – with charitable, local and national grants being made conditional on one another – spells chaos, because after one block of funding is removed from a particular museum, gallery or theatre it will find that other elements begin to wobble too. The appropriate image is less the salami slice than a Jenga tower.
What an excellent and vivid description of the reality. If only others would talk like this and less about 'active positive stakeholder engagement'.
On a separate issue, the government announces a new healthy eating campaign. Food campaigner Jeannette Longfield asks the pertinent questions:
The government tells us it is showing up the hidden nasties in food. Well frankly, why are they hidden and, if they are nasties, what are they doing in our food in the first place?
Umm ... It would be difficult to put her question more succinctly or directly.
