The UK’s Arts Council is having its funding slashed a whopping 35% in order to help pay for the 2012 Olympics, and Lyn Gardner says that it’s time for the arts groups who stand to be devastated by the cuts to begin screaming from the rooftops. “Those who warned when lottery funding of the arts began that the arts should not be dazzled by the apparent cash bonanza but realise that the history of lotteries in other countries suggested that sales do decline, have been proved right in their predictions.”