“Change is urgently needed in the way Britain sustains its arts and better coordination between government and grant allocators might be a good solution. But what will become of us? wail chamber ensembles, pottery centres and poetry publishers up and down the land. Who in the new structures will understand our traditions and our needs? Have no fear, little ones. Nothing will happen overnight, but what should emerge by the 2012 Olympics is a method of joined-up arts funding that ought to work better for everyone – except, disturbingly, for London.”