Prime minister Johnson has made a big splash with a promise of £1.57bn of new money to support the arts in the UK through these difficult times. Interestingly, the first organisation to break the news was not the BBC nor any of the main arts bodies, but Rhinegold Publishing, part of the Mark Allen Group. One wonders whether Rhinegold broke a publishing embargo or there is a link between No. 10 and the publishing conglomerate.
Another question is how much of that money is going to be apportioned to Scotland and Wales, and whether governments in Edinburgh and Cardiff will then help to survive the little theatres, galleries and museums which are such a vital part of local life and which, having few resources to fall back upon, have suffered more than the national institutions during the Covid-19 lock-down.
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