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One of the reasons that the UK's creative industries have become increasingly monochrome over the last decades is the increasingly narrow class background of those who work in the creative sector(s).
If we want to revive the innovative & vital creative sector(s) of the 1960s/70s we need to ensure a wider range of people get the chance to build careers in the creative arts....
One more way that the idea the UK has left class politics behind is so wrong.
Probably won't be widely reported in the UK, since the NCTJ Diversity in Journalism report recently also found that 80% of journalists come from professional or upper-class backgrounds - and that social class was the only area in which diversity was declining. If you're black or female or gay it's getting easier to get into the media - but only if you're also posh.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that.... but of course, little surprise
@ChrisMayLA6 'Room at the top' to 'no room for you, matey'.