A Right-wing cultural think-tank, the New Culture Forum, this week called for the abolition of the Arts Council. In a report, The Arts Council: Managed to Death, Marc Sidwell proposed handing the council’s responsibilities to the Department for Culture instead. I happen to think that for all its faults, getting rid of the Arts Council may not be the panacea Mr Sidwell thinks it might be. Culture in the hands of the Department would alarm as many as it would reassure.

But my real concern is with the New Culture Forum itself. In its mission statement, it says it wants to wrest arguments on culture back from the "liberal Left" whose "cultural relativism and political correctness" are, it claims, the "reigning orthodoxy". The new report is one of a series of papers and debates to that end.

The mission could be timely. After 12 years of Labour, the models and principles of arts funding are ripe for forensic examination. But the Right is going to try harder than this if it wants to change the terms of the debate.

This new report is sloppy. It cites an excess of journalists and a dearth of real artists. And it needs to get its facts right. You do not deserve to win the so-called culture wars if you don’t even know how to spell Antony Gormley.  And the Arts Council can be blamed for some things, but contrary to the report, it was not one of the funders of the ill-fated B of the Bang sculpture in Manchester whose spines fell off. Come on New Culture Forum - you must be able to do better than this.