The other day I ran a post in which a rightwing blogger named Ruth King took a scalp, saying that a campaign by pro-Israel forces in England had ended national Arts Council funding for the London Review of Books. LRB spokesperson Nicholas Spice says it ain’t so:
The London Review of Books will not receive National Portfolio Funding from the Arts Council after March 2012 because it did not apply for any. It makes more sense for us to continue our long relationship with the Arts Council under the auspices of ‘Grants for the Arts’, a different funding pot.
Apologies to LRB, I wish I’d waited to hear from them before giving a platform to a rightwinger, though I have to admit King’s claim fit my view of how the world works.
