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Christian artist Victoria Culf was reported to the police and banned from her own exhibition because of her gender-critical beliefs in the latest example of free speech in peril in Britain.
With grants for "queer research in Nashville", "summoning the ancestors" and "climate responsive theatre", the Arts Council is a font of wokery. And £130m of its funding is from the National Lottery, says Charlotte Gill.
The Javaad Alipoor Company is a theatre company with a woke "nine-point manifesto that drives everything we do". Inevitably, the Arts Council is stuffing it with taxpayers' cash. Why do we fund this crap?
After 30 years, a Hampstead life drawing class has been told to cover up or move out over "safeguarding concerns".
Rachel Reeves has introduced artworks commemorating lockdown and social distancing in No 11 to replace portraits of her male predecessors and British monarchs as part of her clampdown on male art.
The Nutcracker has been given a woke makeover by the English National Ballet with the addition of Suffragettes and a girl boss lead character.
If Rachel Reeves wants to fill the £22bn "black hole" she should abolish the Arts and Humanities Research Council, says Charlotte Gill. £110m a year on treasures such as 'Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives'.
Universities are in the midst of a financial crisis, with a dramatic drop in demand leading to the closure of arts and humanities degrees across England.
The scale of waste of taxpayers' money on woke projects like 'trigger warnings' for plays is staggering, says Charlotte Gill. No wonder no matter how much money is thrown at the arts the sector is always 'on its knees'.
The Turner Prize still thinks it's avant garde and subversive when in reality it just repeats the same monotonous Establishment platitudes and woke yawnfests as everyone else, says Steven Tucker.
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