Bread and roses for the rich
The battle over arts funding is still raging, with the latest fall-out this week being a £3.5 million cut to the arts in Wales. When in March last year it was revealed that the Arts Council of England would soon be making drastic cuts in light of an apparent £1bn lottery shortfall — and a massive diversion of these funds to the Olympics — a theatrical furore ensued. Tessa Jowell having brazenly lied about the Olympics budget, which now stands at nearly four times what was originally touted, was unapologetic about grabbing £112.5m from the arts for the £9.3 billion “once in a lifetime good...