Few will mourn the passing of London's great concert hall that never was | Martin Kettle

The scrapping of ambitious plans for the Centre for Music lays bare the place of the arts in austerity-torn Brexit BritainThere always was an artistic case for London to have a 21st-century concert hall. Both the Royal Festival Hall (built in the late 1940s) and the Barbican Hall (1960s-70s) have fundamental problems in matching the best halls in the world. London is – or was – one of the world’s cultural capitals. It could undoubtedly have made rich use of a better venue &ndas