So much for black holes. We all followed up the story in The Times, then the Guardian, that DCMS had done a major ricket with its budget and was £100m short, almost certainly meaning the money promised to Tate Modern, the BFI for its Southbank development, the British Museum for its new conservation studios and Stonehenge for a visitor centre wouldn’t be forthcoming after all. Today DCMS announced confirmation of £45m for the BFI, £50m for the Tate Modern’s extension, £22.5m for the BM and £10m for Stonehenge. Oh, and there’s £33m for the British Library’s newspaper archive. I make that £160.5m, or a black hole of -£60.5m. But was here that we warned that the July story was more likely to be about a threatened Treasury clawback, which they’ve change their mind about.





