Sky Calls on U.K. Government to Help Boost Its Economic Contribution by $12.4B

Imagination across many fields, such as film or the visual arts, rests on an ecosystem of funding—some philanthropic, some public and some commercial. We need an equivalent for the social field. The freest money in our society is philanthropic, the result of past or present extreme wealth. It has little accountability and no one to answer to, and s

It would evaluate policy proposals from elsewhere in the government through a lens of whether they make the country more imaginative, or less. (So any policies likely to increase anxiety, stress and loneliness would not be permitted, for example.) It would train other departments to become more imaginative, more flexible, more playful. Its brief wo

In my view, the crux of Netflix’s situation is the opportunity to use its current international advantage to create sufficient material to feed both its domestic and its growing international markets.