When Patriots Hear the Word Culture

Artists of all kinds are notorious for their moral unreliability, and their perverse and horrid vices are now being encouraged by the hotbed of treachery that is the House of Lords. The home affairs sub-committee has called for, of all things, detail and clarity from the Government, and even implies that freedom of movement might be a Good Thing. Of course the report is only discussing culture, which as far as the present administration is concerned begins with Land of Hope and Glory and ends with statues of Bomber Harris; but the idea that "cultural workers" should be allowed to slip into the Recrudescent Imperium and pollute the purity of our morris-dancing with their alien Nazi-style Dubs-steps will of course be anathema to every non-traitor in the land. It hardly seems likely, after all, that the great works of Kipling could have been written if their author had spent all his time messing about in a foreign country.