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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Troy (not verified) | Fri, 2008-02-29 17:01
With all due respect Richard -- read the book first. That uber liberal H.G. Wells coined the phrase "Liberal Fascism" to identify his brand of liberalism.
Violence is a tool of fascism but is not the raison d'etre of it. "Fascism" ought to be preserved for those who are actually fascist -- not for those who disagree with the First United Church of Public Administration and its adherents.
The smiley-face cover of Goldberg's book is a gentle poke at what George Carlin (and Goldberg riffing on the theme) of a smiley-face totalitarianism. Your Labour Party is not chock full of brown-shirted jack-booted thugs. That does not make it any less totalitarian -- especially if its policies are taken to their logical conclusions. That's why we call it the Nanny-state. You're gonna get a hug from Nanny Brown -- whether you want it or not.
Anyway -- the book is a great read, even if you don't agree entirely with his thesis, there are a lot of great endnotes and quotes, etc.
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