LETTERS Fool Britannia
Sir: What a busy little bee Chris Smith has been (Diary, 23 May) dashing hither and Yon, to Cannes, to Wales and to the BBC, Seeking to persuade us that Creative Britain is more important than 'Cool Britannia'. It could hardly be less. One hopes that his 'whirlwind' life leaves him time to fight Mr Blair and the Treasury on behalf of the performing arts of music, theatre and dance; to tell Mr Gerry Robin- son not to sideline the professionals in his reconstruction of the Arts Council; to listen to what Sir Richard Eyre will soon have to say about the ROH, ENO and Royal Bal- let; to work for the restoration of music to the core curriculum of primary schools; and to reassert the huge importance — cultural, educational and economic — of the disci- plines of the serious art forms.
Or we may well find that we have Fool Britannia.
Robert Ponsonby
Flat 4, 11 St Cuthbert's Road, London NW2
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