UK: HANDY'S VIEW - OPEN YOUR DOORS TO EXCELLENCE.

Charles Handy urges businesses to find space for the arts, to give wider access to things that stir the imagination and make up for the inequalities of the market economy.

The Nutcracker ballet is traditional December fare for those culturally inclined, and with small children, set as it is in the context of a children's Christmas party. See it, however, as I did recently, in St Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre, the home of the Kirov Ballet, and a whole different message comes across.