The Guardian view on £1.5bn for the arts: the shows will go on | Editorial

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Editorial: Culture needed a lifeline, and has got one. Now the sector must avoid treading water

There are as many reasons to applaud the UK government’s decision to pump £1.57bn into the arts as there are theatres, concert halls, galleries, libraries, singers, dancers, acrobats, violinists, costume designers, stagehands, artists, audience members and myriad other people and organisations that will benefit from this injection. The arts sector had been poleaxed by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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