Florence McCrae

Some 1.3 million children will now be able to claim free school meals thanks to the work of Manchester United forward, Marcus Rashford.

When Alan Bennett first performed his Talking Heads monologue, he forgot his lines three times. Accordingly, the writer lost any and all desire to perform, and maintaining his position behind the camera, where he is able to write instead.

The release of one of the summer’s most anticipated films, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, has been pushed back to 31 July as a result of the global pandemic. The $200 million film was, according to the New York Times, intended to “jump-start the pandemic-stricken movie business.”

More than half a million workers in the UK have lost their jobs during the past 13 weeks of lockdown, the ONS has revealed.

Andy Preston makes his new business venture seem positively vampiric in character. At the February launch of what has been formally referred to as a “stunning digital skyscraper” he said, “we are going to suck some of your business out of your cities to us.”

One would hardly expect former president Barack Obama to have links with Guildford’s Watts Gallery. Yet the former was inspired by the collection of the latter to enter politics, and ultimately to take up the most powerful office in the world.

Shops in England have reopened for the first time since the 23 March lockdown and have been met with significant queues from members of the public.

For the more conventional among us, Valentine’s day brings embarrassingly large bouquets, overpriced meals for two, and strangely shaped chocolates. For Oliver Dowden, it brought a new position in the cabinet – culture secretary for the country of Shakespeare and Byron, Harry Styles and Gilbert and George.

It seems that Eliseo Gil took the phrase “fake it until you make it” a little too literally, as it has been revealed the archaeologist forged almost ten per cent of his finds.

When Emilie Gordenker took over the Van Gogh museum in February, she did not expect her tenure to begin with months of closure. Yet it is only now that the museum welcomes it first visitors, almost three months since lockdown began.

In any given year, Chatsworth house would welcome some 600,000 visitors through its doors. Now, due to the outbreak of Covid-19, the house is empty aside from the Devonshires who are isolating there.

Having been removed from the board of the Whitney last year due to his involvement in the sale of tear gas, Warren Kanders has announced that Safariland will sell off their crowd-control products divisions.

Conductors across the UK have warned that orchestras may be one of the many fatalities of Covid-19. Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Mark Elder have co-authored a letter in which they note that UK musicians feel they have been left “out in the wilderness” with no clear indication from the government as to how and when they can return to performing.

There are only so many digital Rembrandts an art aficionado can take. At least, so says Jonathan Jones of The Guardian in his latest piece examining the reopening of various galleries across the capital.

At the beginning of the year, Shaun Leonardo, expected to open his show “The Breath of Empty Space” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. However, the museum made the decision to cancel to show in March following objections from the community and members of museum staff, a decision they have now announced they regret.