Ian MartinPublic subsidy for privatised excellence-oh,what a Big Clever Society we are turning into

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MONDAY Once again I come away from the Annual Epic Space Awards with nothing. Every single category was won by Stephen Fry, as usual. He won Best Architectural Writing for a tweet posted last year: 'Yummy, yummy Dunstanburgh Castle. Quite the loveliest of ruins, plus nice walk along beach. *sigh* Later, tweeps!' Never mind my thousands of bloody words on The Metropolis As An Urban Mind-Farm. Bastard. One consolation is knowing that Darcy Farquear'say, architecture correspondent of the Creative on Sunday, is even more incensed.