I think most people would say it should be there first and foremost to preserve our shared cultural heritage. Research by the Centre for Government Reform, which I co-founded earlier this year, has laid bare the scale of the problem. Nearly £31,000 went to a gay re-telling of Romeo and Juliet set at a rave in Croydon. Tens of thousands more went to a ‘queer pan-Asian cabaret’ featuring “Panjabi princesses” and a play in which characters expose the Government's supposed ‘complicity’ in war crimes. Meanwhile, in the period from January 2024 to May 2025, sixteen museums across this country closed their doors for good.