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Max Stafford-Clark calls ministers 'philistines' over arts funding cuts by Matt Trueman

Theatre director describes David Cameron and George Osborne's policies as more damaging than Margaret Thatcher'sVeteran director Max Stafford-Clark has lambasted the government over cuts to arts funding, branding ministers "philistines" or "dangerously ignorant" and arguing that the coalition's policies are more harmful than any of Margaret Thatcher's.Stafford-Clark's diatribe came as his 25th anniversary revival of …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AM on February 5, 2013

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