Britain's ever-harsher welfare system means that now only the rich can afford to make art | Alex Niven
Postwar artists wouldn't have had a chance without affordable housing or social security. When will politicians realise that? When John Lydon sang in 1976 that anarchy was coming to the UK, he wasn't far wrong. Genuine anarchism (a noble political tradition) certainly didn't descend on Britain in the wake of punk rock and Margaret Thatcher's general election victory three years later. But since 1979, the consensus th…