I was fascinated to learn earlier that the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA) was originally conceived by Labour because they had a space in their pre-election media grid, as well as £250 million in public money from the national lottery which they needed to allocate. This is such a brilliant example of late modern policy making, saved here because it feels like I’m going to end up putting this in a talk or lecture at some point.
Raiding the inarticulate since 2010
