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White Man's Burden -- The Calumnies of Britain's Culture Minister

More than enough, perhaps, has already been said about the speech given last week by the Minister for Culture Margaret Hodge in which she criticised the Proms and other unnamed iconic cultural events -- the Henley Regatta?, Glyndebourne? -- for not being sufficiently inclusive.

So well does the Culture Minister's speech epitomise a central flaw in so much current governmental thinking about community cohesion as to warrant a brief re-visitation.

continued on the Centre for Social Cohesion blog.

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