Coverage

‘Social Mobility for Britain’s Excluded’

Martin Bright and Barbara Gunnell, The Guardian, 19th August, Read

‘Culture Minister Tours Bernie Grant Arts Centre’

Elizabeth Pears, Haringey Independent, 12th August 2010, Read

‘Plan to Make History…and Jobs’

Music Week, 12th July 2010, Read

‘A Creative Alternative to the Dole’

Martin Bright, The Observer, 4th July 2010, Read

‘Finally Arts Take Centre Stage’

Simon Tait, 29th April 2010, Read

‘Wish for creativity’

Feargal Sharkey and Martin Bright, The Times, 28th April 2010, Read

‘Creating a Roosevelt doctrine for artists’

Arts Industry, 26th April 2010, Read

‘Industry Eyes Lottery Windfall’

Ben Cardew and Gordon Masson, Music Week, 19th April 2010, Read

‘Another ’80s revival?’

Jemima Gibbons, Interactive KnowHow, 31st March 2010, Read

‘Creative Survival in Hard Times’

Martin Bright, The Spectator, 30th March 2010, Read

‘Artists call for return of Thatcher policy’

Robert Ashton, MusicWeek, 29th March 2010, Read

‘Care for the elderly affects us all, and Labour would handle it best after the general election’

Mary Riddell, The Telegraph, 30th March 2010, Read

‘A new deal for the arts’

Guy Sewell, Leeds Student Online, 19th February 2010, Read

‘Jobs boost continues’

Arts Professional, 15 February 2010, Read (Subscription Only)

‘Think Tank Clash: The Future of Political Debate’

Martin Bright, The Spectator, 13th February 2010, Read

‘Flee! Attack of the Pointy-heads’

Arbitrary Constant, 10th February 2010, Read

‘The think-tank clash reviewed’

Joe Dyke, totalpolitics, 10th February 2010, Read

‘Think Tank Clash’

Jonathan Rowson, Connected Communities, 10th February 2010, Read

‘A thoughtful evening on the south bank’

Dale Bassett, ConservativeHome, 10th February 2010, Read

‘Final score…from the think tank clash’

Sunder Katwala, Next Left, 10th February 2010 Read

‘Young jobless get in on act with theatre plan’

Salina Patel, Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle, 4th February 2010 Read

‘How Graduates are picking up the tab for their parents’ lives’

Andrew Hankinson, The Observer, 31st January 2010 Read

‘News and policy brief – December’

Crafts Council, 10th December 2009 Read

‘Keeping the cool’

Design Week, 17th December 2009 Read

‘Cross-party patrons on board for New Deal initiative’

Music Week, Monday 26th October 2009 Read

‘Towards A New Deal”

A-N, September 2009 Read (Subscription only)

‘Designers call for return of 1980s enterprise policies’

Sarah Shearman, Design Week, August 2009 Read

‘Bring back Enterprise Allowance Scheme, urges report’

Sarah Shearman, Design Week, 28th July 2009 Read

‘Imagine, Summer 2009, Art in Troubled Times: Part II – The Home Front’

Imagine, BBC One, Tuesday 28 July 2009 Watch (Available until 4th August 2009)

‘The creative route could help to avoid a lost generation’

Martin Bright, The Telegraph, 23rd July 2009 Read

‘Turning the recession on its head’

Martin Bright and Pete Barrett, Arts Professional, 1st June 2009 Read
First published by Arts Professional magazine, 1st June 2009.

‘Can the arts be the answer for young victims of the recession?’

Marcus Davey, The Guardian, 8th May 2009 Read

‘Editorial: Martin Bright, New Deal of the Mind’

Martin Bright, Arts Digest, May 2009 Read (Subscription Only)

‘Jobs at music festivals can help save a lost generation’

Martin Bright and Feargal Sharkey, 13th May 2009 Read

‘Government considers New Deal of the Mind’

Design Week, 20th April 2009 Read

‘Wild About Harry: Britain launches the New Deal of the Mind’

D. D. Guttenplan, The Nation, 15th April 2009 Read

‘Bacon butties at No 11 … with Eleanor Roosevelt and a brave New Deal’

Suzanne Moore, Daily Mail, 30th March 2009 Read

‘Arts London e-briefing’

University of the Arts London, 27th March 2009 Read

‘Arts Group goes to Downing Street Part 2 – The New Deal of the Mind’

Arts Group, 25th March 2009 Read

‘A New Deal of the Mind’

Lynne Featherstone MP, 24th March 2009 Read

‘A New Deal that must win arts and minds’

Martin Bright, The Times, 23rd March 2009 Read

‘Front Row’

Martin Bright and DD Guttenplan talk to John Wilson, BBC Radio 4, 20th March 2009  Listen

‘A New Deal of the mind’

Martin Bright, New Statesman, 15th January 2009 Read

(A rewritten and updated version was written for After the Crunch , a collection of essays on Culture in the recession published by Creative Choices° Read)