Literature Under Blair: How Has It Fared?

“The key, and positive, change to the arts that has taken place under Blair – the advent of a fluid sense of identity – has gone hand in hand with the rise of spin: the deliberate use of ‘semantic slippage’ to achieve political and commercial ends or obfuscate moral embarrassments in those fields. Postmodernism, by nature a free-going sort of animal, turns very nasty when harnessed to deliberate ends.”