As Campaign for the Arts’ Jack Gamble pointed out in last week’s issue: “Last year, councils invested more than £2 billion in culture and library services in England alone – that’s more than twice as much as Arts Council England. But because of austerity and inflation, it’s 40% less per person than in 2010. As pressures mount on the services councils have legal duties to provide – especially social care – there are growing risks to everything else.”