But I do love working for Boris because he never stops. He’s always fizzing with good ideas, and when you are looking after culture, that is important. He’s quite ambitious for London.
London centre has a wealth of creative activity but there are parts of London where there isn’t a cinema or where library provision is quite weak.
London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about.
Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech – that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.
The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC.
The creative sector is incredibly important to London’s economy in a number of different ways.
There needs to be more schemes to help young people build careers in fashion, like apprenticeships.
Just as a city cannot protect its manufacturing base without keeping its factories, we cannot have a strong arts sector without studios, rehearsal space, and performance venues.
Public art is a unique type of art. It’s very different to gallery art because it is something that we pass by every day and it inevitably creates a lot of discussion in a way that gallery art does not.
There is clearly a conflict within British Islam between a moderate majority that accepts the norms of Western democracy and a growing minority that does not.
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