From Jeremy Hunt to Lucy Frazer via Matt Hancock, Nadine Dorries and the rest, recent incumbents have overseen a massive reduction in funding, and steadily downgraded the place of the arts in national life What does it take to make a secretary of state for culture? In Whitehall, the argument goes that just as we don't expect the minister for agriculture to keep chickens or know how to drive a combine harvester, we sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AM on July 9, 2023