Among the counter-evidence was last year's Turner prize headlines:
Eminence without merit (Sunday Telegraph); Tate trendies blow a raspberry (Eastern Daily Press); For 1,000 years art has been one of our great civilising forces.
... which spookily is pretty much my estimation of WFTWT, which would have no doubt crashed and burned
without the support of its political science
eminence gris who sees it fullfilling a role.