I’VE got to know Damon Albarn pretty well over the years but I’ve never seen him this cross. In the year Covid-19 has decimated performing arts, he feels compelled to speak out for the next generation whose hopes and dreams have been shattered.
The Blur and Gorillaz star is positively seething over the now infamous Government ad that read, “Fatima’s next job could be in cyber.
She just doesn’t know it yet.” Those words were set on a picture of a young ballet dancer tying her shoe above the slogan “Rethink.
Reskill. Reboot.” Though the ad was hastily removed after causing much embarrassment to everyone right up to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it struck a nerve.