Mark Brown’s article in the Guardian on the 4th January 2016, “Stage set for drama as ENO faces the financial music” demonstrates in graphic detail the problem with the Arts Council and arts funding; a lack of an explicit art form policy that holds the Arts Council to account for its funding decisions. Before […]
Monthly Archives: January 2016
London hoovering up cash from the rest of Britain
January 9, 2016 – 12:48 PM
On the 24th December 2015 there was an article by Simon Jenkins on London’s ability to drain resources from the rest of the UK. Simon Jenkins highlighted the problem of a metropolitan mafia and celebrities with vanity projects that drain scarce resources from the regions and underfunded art forms such as jazz and folk. London […]