City's cultural discrimination?
Published Date:
27 August 2008
THE BBC Newsnight expose of Leeds Council's misconceived funding of a radical Islamist bookshop has a bearing on its refusal to fund the Shakespeare Festival.
Does it reflect super-political correctness or political calculation in the first case? Is it an example of cultural ignorance, cultural self-loathing or cultural amnesia in the second case?
Whatever the thinking, it is relegating British literary tradition and our cultural birthright to a minority status. If not cultural betrayal, is it not cultural discrimination?
P Kilroy, Spennithorne Avenue, Leeds
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Last Updated:
27 August 2008 1:25 PM
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