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Row brews as Arts Council diverts funding from opera to ‘cultural claptrap’

Organisation has cut all funding for the English National Opera and made donations to the likes of the Bureau of Silly Ideas

The Arts Council has funded a music group which attacked the Government’s Rwanda policy, as well as the so-called Bureau of Silly Ideas. 

The organisation, which invests money from the Government and the National Lottery in the arts, made the donations as part of an effort to spread funds more evenly around the country.

Also in line for funding is a theatre company which argues Henry V was a power-hungry imperialist rather than an English hero and a theatre which had planned to run a family sex workshop.

The revelations come amid an ongoing row over plans to move more funding beyond London, which has seen the English National Opera lose all of its funding from the Arts Council.

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