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"Martha Schwartz’s views are out of touch intellectually", says Gaventa. Excuse me, but that is not a valid statement. Only some quango like CABE could come up with some crap like that. Her argument is either intellectually correct or not. An argument cannot be "out of touch" intellectually. It's that kind of backward thinking that leads to the current spate of let's-ban-everything, not because it's wrong, but because it's unpopular. A very retarded and dangerous route to follow for any civilisation. I can barely respond to anything else Sarah Gaventa wrote as it is simple public sector wishy washy defensive nonsense that doesn't actually have a point. So, all I can say is that most public spaces are hideous