UK arts sector is getting a £270 million funding boost – but there are winners and losers

By Adam Behr, Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University

“In any civilised community the arts … serious or comic, light or demanding, must occupy a central place. Their enjoyment should not be regarded as something remote from everyday life.” This was a central statement in the white paper (a statement of policy intent) issued 60 years ago by Jennie Lee, the UK’s first minister for the arts under Labour prime minister Harold Wilson in 1965.

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