'Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher' – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme | Arts funding

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

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