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Making Theatre in the Midst of Austerity

By Jenny Hughes Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: November 23, 2015

Public spending cuts to the arts damage society as much as the arts themselves, argues Jenny Hughes. In his book, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Mark Blyth summarises an economic policy of austerity as “a morality play, one that has shifted the blame from the banks to the state. Austerity is the penance […]

Tagged With: arts, austerity, neoliberalism, spending cuts, theatre

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Is the local government party really now over?

By Nick Clifford Filed Under: Featured Posted: June 3, 2015

After crying ‘wolf’ for several years, councils are now faced with very real difficulty in balancing their books, warns Nick Clifford. More than 50 years ago, in 1962, there was a hit for Lonnie Donegan called ‘The Party’s Over’. 40 years ago Tony Crosland, then Secretary of State for Local Government, gave a speech to […]

Tagged With: councils, deficit, George Osborne, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Julian Glover, local authorities, local government, Local Government Association, Lonnie Donegan, Queens Speech, spending cuts, the Better Care Fund, Tony Crosland

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