A short film on the ongoing occupation of the former Bank of Ireland, Royal Avenue, Belfast. by the Creative Workers Cooperative

Dan Jarvis MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture Minister, responding to a report in today’s Financial Times that applications to the University of the Creative Arts in London have fallen by 30 per cent, said:

"Certainly there is a need for free-market economics to be rescued from those who distort and discredit it, but that is the argument that must be made: that this system has delivered mass prosperity (and the self-determination that comes with it) on a scale unprecedented in human history, and that it deserves to be saved from the spoilers." Janet Daley, writing with justified scorn about those peo...

We have the directors and creative talent but not the big budgets that US film-makers enjoy, says Joan Bakewell.

Let’s imagine that Etxebarria is, indeed, going to teach creative writing. What she’ll discover on her first day is that the students in her seminar room have very little interest in how much money they are likely to make from their published work. I teach on just such a course at UEA, and I can

The decline in start-ups in the past five years has damaged America’s economy as new companies are primarily responsible for job creation

Make friends to influence people. What Britain requires is creative diplomacy and some unaccustomed humility, writes Philip Stephens

At the ASI. Bureaucratic regulation of life doesn’t work because we, collectively, are far more intelligent and creative than they, collectively, are.

It is time for the simple debate to end and all out war to begin. The Edison bulb bannings by the global class of intellectual Aristocrats is the step too far. To assist all in declaring their allegiance I have generated this handy war logo which could double as a war pennant: Down with the Greens! Graphic: copyright Dale Amon, Released under Creative Commons license....

Oh, so that injunction hasn’t been lifted yet then? Hugh Bonneville, who plays the Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey, has received a Walpole Medal of Excellence as “a shining example of Britain’s best creative talent”. At the ceremony, which celebrates luxury goods, the actor gushed: “I’ve admired these brands from afar for a long