The garden bridge, proposed to cross the Thames from the South Bank to Temple, is nothing if not a landmark of the post-truth era. It has wrung tens of millions out of the public purse on the basis of deceptions, distortions and facts that proved to be fake. First sold as “a gift to the people of London”, entirely paid for by private sector donations, it is now due to cost a minimum of £60m in public money. Its estimated total cost has gone from £60m to “north of £200 million”. Its claims to fundraising prowess are exaggerated, its promised transport benefits minimal.

Throughout the French countryside, especially in less visited rural areas of eastern and central France, some homes have fallen victim to speculators who strip their architectural treasures and sell them, often abroad, leaving once graceful historic structures little more than empty shells behind gaily painted facades. In other cases, the owners themselves sell the architectural elements to raise some cash.

As Thomas Campbell begins his exit, the museum resets: “The wing will wait while the museum conducts long-needed repairs. Exhibitions will be cut back by as much as a quarter. And just as crucially, the Met is revamping its money-losing gift shop — because, as it turns out, America’s greatest storehouse of treasures can’t balance its budget without selling nicer scarves.”

It’s all due to a love story, the Guinness Book of World Records, and a move from Pasadena in order to accommodate all of the bunnies – and to open the “Chamber of Hop Horrors, a room that only visitors 13 and older may enter.”

As any art historian from the pre-internet era would know, the Metropolitan Museum had thousands – and thousands and thousands – of slides it loaned out to teachers and professors for lectures. But the entire collection of slides was digitized, and the museum didn’t need them any longer. So, they found a new home.

Things have changed dramatically in just a few years – and in several decades. “For the first time since the 1940s, when Lisbon was a refuge from the war, says Pestana, the city is ‘really cosmopolitan.'”