Frances Ryan says we need to rethink the austerity-driven financial environment that is forcing local authorities to cut funding from the arts and direct it towards health and social care. “There are the services that keep us alive,” she writes. “And then there are those that make life worth living.”
As it emerged Grantham Museum will soon look out on to a bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher, I found myself thinking about the last time I stepped foot in there.
Growing up in the town in the 1990s, the local museum was a cheap trip out for my primary school class, a sea of sticky fingers smudging the glass... Keep reading on The Guardian