But while we’re on the subject of the aforementioned black hole, what is this story? It looks like the most appalling incompetence, and maybe it is, but it was covered first apparently after a conversation with a minister, and again even more prominently after more conversations with ‘senior arts sources’ – and no-one has resigned, no-one has been sacked, the spokesman’s quote hadn’t changed from one piece to the other. Off the record comments from DCMS are no more enlightening, muttering about the recession, global tightening, or in other words ‘we don’t know”. Could it be that it’s got nothing to do with DCMS at all, that the real dunderhead isn’t in Cockspur Street at all but further down Whitehall?