Who Will Save British Arts?

Where is the private donor who will step up and save an institution such as the English National Opera? Norman Lebrecht says that person doesn’t exist: “The crises in British arts are not coincidental nor, as is often alleged, a consequence of underfunding. As predictable as daisies on a lawn, they are seeded in a formula that dates back to 1945 when Maynard Keynes secured public cash for the arts in exchange for a supervisory mechanism administered by the great and the good.”