Inside the collapse of Baillie Gifford’s literary sponsorships Investment Baillie Gifford has been met with boycotts due to its investments in fossil fuels and firms operating in Israel, leading to the end of its sponsorship of Edinburgh Book Festival.
Baillie Gifford ends Edinburgh Book Festival sponsorship after fossil fuel row Investment Scottish asset manager Baillie Gifford has been dropped as a sponsor for the Edinburgh International Book Festival after a row over the company's investments in fossil fuels and companies benefiting from Israel's occupation of Palestine.
Funding boycotts are ‘irresponsible, entitled and childish’ Divestment The debate over whether artists should accept funding from Baillie Gifford has continued to rage in recent weeks.
Eco activists calling for literature festival boycotts should read a book May 20, 2024 Writers signing a letter calling on book festival sponsor Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuels exhibit a lazy habit of mind that has no place in literature, says Alys Denby The arts should always be anti-establishment. Only an autocracy would demand that all its creative output mindlessly cohered to the values of the regime. [...]