The Hodge report into Arts Council England: 'Not exactly a ringing endorsement'
While the former arts minister's call for tax breaks and a bonfire of red tape will be welcomed, we seem to be going round in circles. And why hasn't the single most calamitous cause of funding reduction been addressed? The arts in England are underfunded, and were dealt a blow by Covid from which many organisations have not yet recovered. But that has been only part of the story. The sheer weight of required form-fi…