It's 20 years since Tony Blair reshaped Britain's economy around the arts, yet the project's legacy is an exploitative sector dominated by people from an astonishingly small demographic poolIt was the most high-profile moment of New Labour's "Cool Britannia" campaign: a celebration of a modern, outward-facing Britain with a new kind of industry, and a new kind of workforce. "We saw it as a chance to redefine what the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM on July 5, 2017