Private Views: Voices from the Front Line of British Culture is available to order from the Social Affairs Unit and Amazon.
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Private Views
Private Views: Voices from the Front Line of British Culture is available to order from the Social Affairs Unit and Amazon.
NCF Report
The NCF report The Arts Council: Managed to Death can be downloaded here.
NCF TV
Director Peter Whittle hosted over forty editions of Culture Clash, a half hour cultural discussion programme, which ran for a year on the UK's first internet TV site, 18 Doughty Street.
There was a huge diversity of subject matter, and you can view any one of the programmes by clicking here, where you'll find a brief description of each one.
My Cultural Life
My Cultural Life explores the cultural hinterland of figures in our creative, political and social landscape in ten quick fire questions.
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Richard D North (not verified) | Fri, 2008-02-29 10:29
Blimey - talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Suddenly, it's the lefties who are fascists. But most western lefties are just horribly bossy, which doesn't quite cut it as fascism, surely?
The word "fascist" ought to be preserved for people who publicly celebrate the use of civil violence as a good in itself. That covers the democratically-elected Nazis (and if they're not fascist, who is?) It probably lets off the soviet monsters - but only from the charge of fascism. Sure, that's v debateable.
But the idea of "liberal fascism" is just horribly over-egged and silly.
There's another good calibration. I don't say that fascism is just about intemperance taken to extremes. But extremism comes into it. Liberals sleep-walk in a kindly way to some very bad places. They are hideously, blindly smug. But they are, mostly, at least fairly mild. "A mild fascist": now that would be an oxymoron.
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