I am personally convinced, having looked at many other funding systems around the world, that a tax-funded system is the right one".
This is that they are based on fundamentally opposed principles and funding systems.
Nonetheless, the culture of self-evaluation within our funding systems doesn't help.
His leadership could also exacerbate the considerable differences between funding systems within the UK.
No progressive party can survive the corporate press, corrupt party funding systems and conservative fear machines by fighting these forces on their own terms.
But the solution there has as much to do with reforming Neanderthal funding systems as it does with the greater public spending he advocates.
The promise is to help areas which are in difficulty with "flexibilities and discretion" on issues such as regulation, pricing and funding systems, but only in support of change.
The key question being asked is: "Why have two complicated and expensive research funding systems when we can have one?" However this question is answered, there'll be big losers.
That should not be a reason to not fund it, but arts funding systems, by their nature, are not set up to fund failure, or things that are too provocative.
South Africa has one of the largest voluntary retirement funding systems in the world (and for the large proportions of people in employment, these arrangements are mandatory conditions of service).
No modern playwright, though, could make an end-of-pier auditorium – and still less an NHS hospital or a school – a metaphor for wider Britain because the funding systems and policies across the UK are now so varied.
