Francois Matarasso

A welcome change of direction: Arts Council England’s Strategy 2020-30

Earlier this summer, Arts Council England published a ‘Draft Strategy for Consultation’. Covering the ten years from 2020 to 2030,

It is really difficult to distribute money fairly and safely.

Someone asked me yesterday what I was doing now that the book was finished. ‘Resting,’ I replied, and then, since

At a time when the lamps are once again going out, not only in Europe but across the world, I’ve

About 40 years ago, I found a small treasure in a secondhand bookshop—an old copy of Clarendon’s History of the

Last year, I was invited to a meeting organised by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. The conference, ‘Beyond Us versus Them –

Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason

Dear Michael, Thank you for your reply to my piece about democracy and the Brexit Referendum. I was going to write

Yesterday I was asked why I accept the result of the 2016 referendum in which a majority of English and

Every month for almost 20 years, a memo about cultural policy and administration has been sent by email from