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Museums have closed and festivals lost funding – but Labour will restore Britain’s creative superpower status, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Ive always rather liked Dame Prue Leith . Shes snazzy and no-nonsense, the sort who tells it like it is and seems like shed be a good giggle over a gin and tonic.

Susan Aitken has hit out at Creative Scotland over the decision to axe funding for the Aye Write festival.

New director Jenny Niven calls controversy over lead sponsor Baillie Gifford’s fossil fuel links ‘the nature of the beast’, but activists are still calling for authors to boycott the event

Author Deedee Cuddihy was chatting with a West End chum in a Byres Road Waitrose queue. They were ruefully recalling the eating habits of their…

Val McDermid and Douglas Stuart were among many writers to express outrage after Creative Scotland turned down the literary festival funding application

Douglas Stuart, the Booker Prize winner, contrasts the failure to support the event with the Irish government’s support of its literary scene

Columnist Rosemary Goring is left speechless after the Aye Write festival was cancelled

Glasgow’s Aye Write festival has been called off, with organisers blaming scandal-hit funding body Creative Scotland.

A Glasgow event has been shelved after nearly 20 years after funding was cut