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Friday, April 11, 2003
Musical start to SSP campaign for Sheridan Angus Calder, the writer, said people would question the cost of plans such as doubling the arts budget.
"I put it to you," he said, "double two peanuts is four peanuts." Mr Calder also argued that the cost of providing every school child with a free and healthy meal was cheaper in the long run than not doing so.
Defending subsidised art, he said the real recipient of aid was Gordon Brown, the chancellor, who took 17.5% of the cost of every theatre, cinema and performance ticket sold in the UK.
Mr Mullan described the arts today in Scotland as almost a third-world industry. Mr
Sheridan said Scotland spent ?12 per head of population on the arts compared with ?60 in Finland and ?57 in Sweden. The Herald
