Digested week: good old British common sense has people besieging the beaches | John Crace

The fun times are back, but who knew people would interpret Boris’s upbeat message by breaking out in Bournemouth?I’d never heard of Murillo’s Immaculate Conception before I saw the photos of its restoration that made the painting look like some piece of tat you used to be able to buy in Woolworth’s for less than £5. Much like I’d never come across the Ecce Homo church mural in Spain before an elderly parishioner generously transformed it into something that m