political

Please send us your comments and feedback on Mute's 100% cut by ACE this week. We are hoping to set this in the context of the broader cuts across the arts and society, which represent a sustained assault on the conditions for free expression, critical thinking, and independent production – be that directly or indirectly.

You can do that on

http://metamute.org, Facebook http://linkme2.net/p5,

http://twitter.com/mutemagazine @mutemagazine, on our list, Mute-social

http://lists.metamute.org/mailman/listinfo/mute-social, or email,

I'm only one person and I'm working as hard as I can. So what am I doing wrong, or what did I miss? When the Austrian government – like the governments of so many other formerly enlightened social welfare states – recently announced a staggeringly long list of radical budget cuts, one of the "responsible" politicians superciliously remarked that we have all just been "spoiled" by the social welfare state for too long and will have to get used to standing on our own feet now.