The proposed £278m concert hall (Report, 17 December) is a prima facie case of the metropolitan cultural mafia at work. The problem with the arts in England is there is no concrete policy for the arts that distributes public funding in an equitable, structured way. Not a squeak from the Arts Council, and in times of austerity monies are promptly found to conduct a self-fulfilling feasibility study. What's wrong…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PM on December 18, 2015