I enjoyed a discussion on the radio (Andrew Marr on Monday) where artists were collected together to look at the role of Art and Politics. One inevitable topic was about trying to find a solution to the present (dire!) economic situation.
The discussion was about the difficulties of sorting it out, i.e. everyone has their own solution.
Evona Blazwick (art gallery person) ..... talked about how people are trying to deal with the whole history of capitalism, how it is not like the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s...how things are much less black and white; of how "we are in a land of euphemisms ... in a place where language has abstracted the issues ..."
Rory Bremner (comedian) highlighted the fact that we are told that we are stuck in this situation; there also are no alternatives... It's like the rabbit that has been caught in the headlights in the middle of the road: what do you do with it?
George Osbourne says: "Let's bang it on the head."
Vince Cable says: "Let's take it to the vet and do it humanely."
Ed Milliband says: "We have to put it down but let's do it slowly."
Chris Huhne says: "It's not my fault. The wife was driving!"
Photos are from the garden today.
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