Arts Council England has been accused of abandoning artistic excellence in favour of bureaucratic box-ticking after a damning review found it was attempting to 'change society' rather than support great art.
It's hardly the only institution to have been captured, is it? We know the Left's MO, don't we?
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.;
The watchdog, which hands out more than £450million a year in public funding, came under fire in a report by Baroness Hodge, the former Labour culture minister, who was asked to examine how the quango distributes its money. Baroness Hodge wrote that she felt the initiative led to organisations feeling forced to 'tick all the ACE boxes to secure funding', and suggested the strategy be replaced with 'a new, less prescriptive' model. Her review concluded that the organisation had drifted away from its founding purpose, with evidence suggesting that art itself had been pushed into the background.
That was the point of it, Hodge.
