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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow The great British sell-off: why are we allowing our arts to be privatised by stealth? | Charlotte Higgins by Charlotte Higgins Oct 1, 2022 Gallery by gallery, museum by museum, the public stake in our cultural institutions is shrinking There is a frequent complaint from the right that that the deep-rooted ideological position of the BBC, universities, theatres, museums and other arts and cultural organisations is a long-uncontested leftiness. The paranoia about this is extreme: consider that the prime minister, Liz Truss, complained to the journalist Tom Newton Dunn during a party leadership hustings that he had framed a question “in a leftwing way”. The sheer insanity here – though her words were doubtless carefully chosen to seed distrust in the media in general – is that Newton Dunn is the former longstanding political editor of the Sun, and not notorious for his raging socialism. Charlotte Higgins is the Guardian’s chief culture writer Continue reading... Continue Reading

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