London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m(theartnewspaper.com)

48 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 50 comments

Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees(theartnewspaper.com)

179 points by edent 2 years ago | 51 comments

The 'biggest art fraud in history'(theartnewspaper.com)

34 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 1 comments

Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist(theartnewspaper.com)

24 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 4 comments

Robert Wilson has died(theartnewspaper.com)

70 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 16 comments

How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq(theartnewspaper.com)

108 points by leoh 1 year ago | 54 comments

After my dad died, we found the love letters(jenn.site)

854 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 389 comments

A personal blog essay on Jenneral HQ about discovering love letters among the author's late father's belongings and reflecting on her parents' arranged marriage.

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database(legalcheek.com)

467 points by harel 8 months ago | 318 comments

Legal Cheek news article reporting that the UK Ministry of Justice has ordered deletion of the country's largest court reporting database.

Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain(economist.com)

382 points by benrmatthews 3 years ago | 444 comments

An Economist By Invitation opinion piece in which think-tank head Mathew Lawrence argues privatisation in Britain has been a costly failure and favours state ownership.

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns(politico.eu)

435 points by scrlk 2 years ago | 223 comments

Politico Europe article reporting that UK rail minister Peter Hendy got engineer Gareth Dennis fired for raising safety concerns, threatening to withhold public contracts.

The quiet renovation at Bitwarden(blog.ppb1701.com)

608 points by DaSHacka 5 months ago | 269 comments

A personal blog post following up on Bitwarden doubling its Premium price and criticizing how the change was communicated to existing customers.

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure(rosalux.de)

419 points by robtherobber 11 months ago | 368 comments

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung essay arguing that Britain's 1990s railway privatization failed, as the railways now return to public ownership.