New Deal of the Mind has become The Creative Society
Since founder and CEO Martin Bright wrote the article that kick-started our work, the concept of a New Deal of the Mind has provided a mutually rewarding service in which creative organisations and businesses have directly benefitted from the creation of over 1000 sustainable jobs for young people.
As our work has evolved however, we’ve had to evolve with it, and now need a new way to better reflect the positive outcomes that we as New Deal of the Mind have helped to shape.
We are therefore evolving our brand to become known as The Creative Society with a mission to build and support the creative economy.
Look out for changes across our social media sites – coming very soon.
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Lord Carter defends Digital Britain
Lord Carter has hit back at critics of the Government’s Digital Britain Report published last week. He has defended the report’s proposals and argues that if you want something, someone has to pay for it.
The communications minister has defended plans to impose an annual £6 tax on every home and business fixed phone line to raise the £1.5bn required to fund the the extension of next-generation fibre-optic communications networks to 90% of the population by 2017. Certain critics, including the Conservative Party, have denounced the proposal on the grounds that the majority of phone users in towns and cities will be subsidising internet provision for those who live in rural areas.
Nevertheless, Lord Carter has hit back by arguing that public investment is vital if such widespread technological infrastructure is to be provided quickly and efficiently. “If we as a country want to have a new-built fixed infrastructure and the market will not pay for it, where is it going to come from? If we don’t want it, we don’t have to pay for it. If we do want it, then we do have to pay for it.”The only alternative, Lord Carter argues, would be to secure funding from general taxation, a move that would surely prove even less popular.
Besides, £6 per year is surely not a bank-breaker.
Peter Barrett
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