Know Your Enemy

"Maybe David is party to a formula for popularity, despite the fact that no art of any real value, including all Hollywood films of the past 30 years, has ever been made by pursuing one. Good artists do what they believe in and don't merely court public approval. In these respects they are the opposite of politicians. Zing!"

Stewart Lee takes Tory economic rationalism to task, David Cameron having ventured that the UK film industry should make a greater effort to back "more commercially viable pictures".