With bated breath we listened to Ben Bradshaw’s speech at the Labour Party Annual Conference this week, but disappointingly so far both the Lib Dem and Labour conferences have provided very little with regards to the arts and culture.  Let’s see if the Tories have anything more substantial to say. The NCA has been busy this week responding to the consultation on file sharing and analysing the Arts Council England (ACE) recent Sustain award announcements.  Also this week the first nation wide audit of councillors was published and the Arts Council of Wales initiated a review of the Lottery Capital Programme.