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  Shayan Sardarizadeh , a BBC journalist investigating online disinformation, who covers fake news and disinformation  for BBC Monitoring, BBC World Service and BBC News alongside Marianna Spring and Mike Wendling, tweeted the following 'breaking news' overnight: One commenter replied that this isn't actually a new video, and a moment's Googling confirms that.  This very video was posted on YouTube on 18 December 2018 and is still on there, beginning with the words Shayan quotes: Wonder if Shayan's colleagues will 'reality check' this for him, or will it be left to us online types to point out that this BBC disinformation unit guy is literally spreading fake news, presumably because he couldn't be bothered to check and wanted it to be true?

Just looking back on all the recent questions put by BBC Politics reporters at Downing Street press conferences, I'm spotting a recurring angle. Can you see it too? 19 Dec :  LAURA KUENSSBERG :  There were calls for you to drop the plans for Christmas last week, just a few days ago,  but on Wednesday you told me and our viewers it would be inhuman to change the plans. Now that is exactly what you have done. Aren't there are millions of people whose plans have just been torn up who are entitled to feel that you have left this too late and caused them more personal disruption and upset by doing so? Can I ask the medics, you have shared the analysis of this new variant and you mentioned Porton Down have been looking at this in an earlier press conference this week. Can you say if Porton Down have completed their assessments of it? Professor Chris Whitty, if someone is packing a bag right now, trying to leave the south-east by midnight tonight, what should they d...

  The final  From Our Own Correspondent   of 2020 ended with an unusually long item by Nick Bryant, the BBC's opinionated New York correspondent.  I suspect it will be "award-winning", given its content - and the applause it's already receiving from the usual people.  I will try to summarise it for you, as it absolutely reeked of BBC bias:   Nick's mum "called it" early: 2020 "has become a byword for all that was wrong, the worst year ever".   Nick himself thought that the vast bush fires in Australia and "the enormity of the climate emergency" were going to be the big story of 2020, and the start of a new era [a great reset so to speak] . He said the fires were such a catastrophic event that he felt they "would separate 'the past and the future' into 'the before and after'". But then along came Covid.  A long passage about how the virus has changed the personal lives of 'people like us' ...

  Fields of Grain as Seen from Train, 1931, oil on canvas, 24 x 34 1/8 in. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Gift of Seymour H. Knox Jr., K1958:1  The Arthur G. Dove Catalogue Raisonné Project today announced the publication of a complete and authoritative catalogue raisonné of the pioneering modernist’s work. Edited and written by scholar and curator Debra Bricker Balken, Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things sheds expansive new light on the artist’s work with an illustrated survey of the full corpus of his known paintings and assemblages (or “things”), along with a wealth of essays that draw on previously unpublished materials. Together, these add important context and texture to our understanding of the artist, his work, and the context in which it was created.  The first book on Dove to include color illustrations of all of his extant paintings, Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things is published by the...

  It's beginning to feel a lot like time for a new open thread (when the last one has run its course).  Thank you for your comments. 

As noted on the open thread.... Is that Godzilla I see stomping down Whitehall towards the Houses of Parliament to mark the new year and Brexit? No, it's just the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani. He's in fancy dress as Private Frazer from Dad's Army  and breathing fire ever so impartially  ( as ever ). Just look at his language here: Less than 350 HOURS now from full-flavour Brexit. Here are the facts about how the UK will crash out of a host of security, criminal justice and crime-fighting tools keeping you safe . [Translation: You're doomed! DOOMED!]  Police will lose lose many of these even if there is a deal. The UK will be ejected from the European Arrest Warrant (although it does have its critics); it will have a totally unclear relationship with Europol and its joined-up cross-border organised crime investigations. SIS 2 - jargon name for a massively important database providing millions of insta-alerts to frontline policing and b...

From 30 October 2020 to 21 March 2021, the Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala (the Intesa Sanpaolo museum complex in Milan) hosts the exhibition Tiepolo. Venezia, Milano, l’Europa , curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Alessandro Morandotti with general coordination by Gianfranco Brunelli. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Giambattista Tiepolo’s death (Venice 1696 - Madrid 1770), the first dedicated exhibition in Milan is now being staged. The exhibition, under the High Patronage of the Italian President of the Republic and in partnership with the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice, presents around seventy works by Tiepolo and his most important peers (including the Venetian artists Antonio Pellegrini, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Sebastiano Ricci as well as Lombardy-born Paolo Pagani) to trace the artistic career of the Venetian maestro, and his main patrons in the cities where he achieved his success: Venice, Milan, Dresden and Madrid. ​​​​​​​THE EXHIBITION: In the logical a...