#Arts4Labour
Yesterday we published this letter of support for Labour, signed by 40 prominent cultural figures.
Here is an elaboration on the #Arts4Labour website, with personal statements from many of the signatories. We include a few of those here, below the list of signatories.
Letter in the Guardian
Ronan Bennett writer, producer
Noam Chomsky philosopher
Chipo Chung actor
Clean Bandit band
Steve Coogan comedian, actor
Rob Delaney actor
David Edgar playwright
Brian Eno musician, producer
Andrew Feinstein writer
Stephen Frears film director
David Graeber anthropologist, author
Steve Gribbin comedian
Kane ‘Kano’ Robinson rapper
Asif Kapadia film director
Aki Kaurismaki film director
Peter Kennard artist
AL Kennedy author
Naomi Klein author
Mike Leigh film director
Ken Loach film director
Lowkey rapper
Sabrina Mahfouz playwright
Esther Manito comedian
Michael Mansfield barrister
Francesca Martinez comedian
Massive Attack band
Bill McKibben co-founder 350.org
Robin Rimbaud ‘SCANNER’ musician
Michael Rosen poet, broadcaster
Martin Rowson cartoonist
Mark Rylance actor
Alexei Sayle writer, comedian
Gillian Slovo writer
Robyn Slovo film producer
Ahdaf Soueif author
Joelle Taylor poet
Kate Tempest poet, musician
Jess Thom artistic director, Touretteshero
Mark Thomas writer, comedian
Yanis Varoufakis economist
Ashley Walters actor
Roger Waters musician
Benjamin Zephaniah poet, musician
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This reverberating validation of Labour Party policy – not just towards the arts but permeating every fibre of our creative lives – has just been boosted by a hard-hitting statement delivered by the four award-winning artist members of a collective who jointly won the Turner prize this week. A powerful call for collaborative and communal action In the face of aggressive, right-wing Tory policies that are decimating the arts along with every other life-affirming structure.