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arts Articles

Miliband hits the right notes

It is rare for prime ministers or leaders of the opposition to give speeches on the arts. Delivering one last night, Ed Miliband observed that Tony Blair once did. Jim Hacker, a character in Yes, Minister did too. Noting that in doing so, Hacker closed BBC Radio 3,...

Remembering the C in DCMS

I can’t recall exactly when I first saw Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon – an unsettling, bleak and profoundly beautiful series of paintings originally commissioned for the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York – but I can remember my reaction. As a writer, to describe...

The Olympic catalyst

As Friday night’s extraordinary opening ceremony for the 30th Olympiad unfolded it drew a line beneath the first chapter of an equally extraordinary ten year journey for Hackney and east London. It also definitively opened the next. In what seems like the blink of an...

Big philanthropy?

Last week David Willetts, Jeremy Hunt and Francis Maude called for a review to examine the example of our American counterparts in giving away large parts of their personal fortunes to support the provision of services. They argued that philanthropy must be at the heart of David Cameron’s ‘big society’.

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