marcus westbury

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Based on the fact that i am sweating over my copy this afternoon, i think it is safe to say that I am now officially a newspaper columnist.
The downside is that “newspaper columnist” is a sub-profession of human being somewhere above politician and used car salesman and below journalist. I’m not sure that inflicting my [...]

I am conducting a little experiment over at Facebook. I’m trying to work out whether it is possible to somehow round up all those people who don’t quite fit the “Art” boxes and as a result never get a seat at the table. My theory is that a relatively small number of highly centralised and [...]

Just a quick link to a piece i wrote for New Matilda’s summer series about cultural policy. I am not greatly happy with the piece – i put it down to the fact i wrote it in a campervan somewhere on the South Island of New Zealand and the last thing on my mind at [...]