Did Mohammed bin Salman pay $450M for a ‘da Vinci’ artwork Leonardo DIDN’T create? Saudis left furious amid claims the master merely ‘contributed’ to the world’s most expensive painting Salvator Mundi sold for a record-breaking $450million at auction in 2017 But questions were quickly raised over whether it is a ‘true’ da Vinci work French … Read more
New questions for former Prime Minister David Cameron over links to crashed Greensill By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 22:46 GMT, 20 March 2021 State-owned bank NatWest handed a contract to a firm with close ties to Lex Greensill – the financier at the centre of … Read more
Haberdashers’ Aske’s £21,000-a-year private schools could change name after discovering founder had shares in slave trading company which transported 100,000 Africans to plantations in the West Indies and America The Habs schools could change their name due to its founder’s links to slavery Robert Aske had shares in the Royal African Company which enslaved 100,000 … Read more
Woke Lancaster students demand The Sugarhouse Nightclub change its name due to links to city’s slave trade Sugarhouse Nightclub is located on Sugarhouse Alley and run by student union But undergrads think it should be renamed over ‘vicious atrocities’ in slave trade A petition has been set up and needs around 320 signatures to be … Read more
The descendants of a 17th century benefactor of one of Cambridge University’s richest colleges have criticised bosses’ plans to move a memorial of their ancestor into a wine cellar due to his alleged slavery links. Jesus College, which is worth £344 million, plans to move the funeral monument to Tobias Rustat from its chapel because … Read more
Lloyd’s of London has pledged to publish a catalogue of its 3,000 treasures to root out any connections with the slave trade. The world’s oldest insurance market is seeking an archivist to examine its vast trove of goods obtained over more than three centuries, including paintings, furniture, swords and silverware. Lloyd’s has posted an advert … Read more
Canterbury Cathedral has won praise for resisting calls to remove statues with historic links to slavery despite calls by Justin Welby to look at them ‘very carefully.’ The Archbishop of Canterbury last year suggested the monuments should be reviewed to see if they ‘should all be there.’ He made the comments last June, when monuments … Read more
Chinese spies have been looting British universities for years. That is one scandal. The other – even more outrageous – is that we are only now waking up to it. The fact that almost 200 leading UK academics are being investigated for their unwitting connections to Chinese weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes is scarcely … Read more
Oxford University is to rename a prestigious professorship of physics after a Chinese software company accused of close links with the Communist regime’s intelligence services in return for a £700,000 donation, the Daily Mail has learned. The Wykeham chair of physics, which was established in 1900 and comes with a fellowship at 14th-century New College, … Read more
The Crown has been nominated as the Best TV drama series at the 2021 Golden Globes — the fourth time it has received this honour — and we will find out on February 28 if it wins at last. Seven actors from the series are also up for awards for acting and writing, including Olivia … Read more