Florence McCrae

The government is expected to abandon air bridges in favour of establishing a list of countries with quarantine exemptions for British holidaymakers.

Facebook has announced that they will remove any content “that attempts to buy, sell or trade in historical artifacts.”

The auction house, Christie’s, rejected calls to halt a sale of Nigerian artefacts which were looted by British troops in the 19th century.

The health service ombudsman has said that the government must set out plans for an inquiry into the way it has handled the coronavirus pandemic.

It may finally be possible to see the Mona Lisa without an abundance of selfie sticks in the way. On 6 July, Musée du Louvre in Paris is to reopen, following a 16-week closure, which has cost some €40 million.

A rise in coronavirus cases has resulted in the first full local lockdown in the UK.

It has been announced that Broadway shows will not return to the stage this year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Giles Watling has toured the country for some 55 years. In a previous life, Watling was an actor, though he is now more accustomed to the theatrics of parliament as the MP for Clacton, a role he secured in 2017.

When establishing whether or not to reopen the Wallace Collection, Xavier Bray considered the view of the founder. He notes: “I think Wallace’s first thought would have been to reopen as soon as it was possible and safe to do so. In fact, pretty much since the start of the lockdown, we’ve been preparing how to reopen.”

Sir Mark Sedwill, the country’s top civil servant, has announced that he will step down from his role in September.

It is said there are only seven kinds of story – overcoming the monster; rags to riches; the quest; voyage and return; comedy; tragedy and rebirth. All of Western literature, from Shakespeare to Saint-Exupéry, Wilde to Wodehouse, can be boiled down to this collection of plots. Yet the number of stories than can come from this cohort is infinite.

When Lin Manuel Miranda first saw the final number of Hamilton on the big screen, he threw his shoes into the air, not perhaps the response the film’s producers had expected.

Sir Keir Starmer has sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey over allegations she shared an article containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

George R.R. Martin is not a fan of deadlines at the best of times. For the past 24 years he has been working on the Game of Thrones series, making slow but steady progress, and helping to create a hit HBO show in the process.

A collective of the world’s most eminent museums, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Metropolitan Museum of art, have purchased looted Middle Eastern artefacts to the sum of tens of millions of euros.