Come on Andy… stop gaslighting us and fund music education

Julian Lloyd Webber is the latest to decry the decline of UK music education. Why won’t politicians put the money where the mouth is? Plus, ENO drops its ‘E’

It’s been a big month for young talent. Barely a week after the final of BBC Young Musician, the next generation of musicians were also celebrated in the annual Music for Youth Proms at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday and Tuesday, where more than 2,000 young people in choirs, jazz and pop groups, steelpan bands and orchestras performed music that included Charlotte Harding’s The Orchestra: A Young Person’s Guide, written for disabled and non-disabled musicians of the National Open Youth Orchestra.