‘The police can’t do it alone’: head of police watchdog on how to cut crime 30. March 2026 (14:26) HM chief inspector Andy Cooke says multi-agency approach is needed to cut poverty and increase opportunitiesThe best way to stop people becoming criminals is to reduce poverty, target prevention strategies at young people, and increase opportunity, his majesty’s chief inspector of constabulary has said.Sir Andy Cooke, who is preparing to leave his post and retire after 40 years in policing, told the Guardian that his decades of experience taught him that crime was a “symptom of deeper societal failures”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Painting considered workshop copy is in fact by Rembrandt, expert says 30. March 2026 (13:29) Exclusive: UK owner’s version of Old Man with a Gold Chain reunited in Chicago with undisputed work by Dutch masterA portrait in a UK collection that has long been dismissed as a workshop copy of an almost identical painting by Rembrandt was in fact also painted by the 17th-century Dutch master, according to a leading scholar.Each of the paintings, titled Old Man with a Gold Chain and dated to the early 1630s, is a near-lifesize depiction of an older man wearing a gold chain and a plumed hat. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
