The Guardian view on the 'festival of Brexit': don't write it off | Editorial
About £120m has been set aside for arts commissions. It may as well be used wisely When, at the 2018 Tory party conference, Theresa May announced a "nationwide festival in celebration of the creativity and innovation of the United Kingdom" to take place in 2022, it was immediately dubbed a "festival of Brexit" and written off by the UK's overwhelmingly Europhile arts world. This week, as the first open call for cr…