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Silence is deafening as cuts to arts budgets fail to inspire indignation

Which of us, over recent weeks, has not warmed to the stance of plucky little Greece, hurling the demands for austerity back in the face of the big boys of Europe and refusing to accept that they cannot object to cuts across the board and keep the euro?

You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but the Athens resistance would get my vote if I had one.

A few weeks back I half-jokingly criticised some local musicians for their self-effacing performance, tiring of the meekness that is endemic, by definition, among those who cut their teeth in the so-called shoe-gazing scene. I do not seriously expect them to change, but by the same token, I'd prefer not to have become conscious of a reflection of that meekness spreading across other areas in the arts.

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