t’s a pity, in a way, that the uproar following Arts Council England’s radical redistribution of its grant allocations for 2023-6 has focused so much on the fate of one organisation. Of course, the prospect of English National Opera being stripped of all its public subsidy (currently £12.8m a year) unless it moves out of London is massively worrying. That’s especially true for the 300 musicians, technicians and other staff who work there, who certainly wouldn’t all get
