National Idiocy

"Treasures worth more then £65m, including a Poussin, a Van Dyck and a stupendous Turner painting that was the artist's final image of the Rome, will all leave the UK because no one had sufficient money to prevent their export, an annual report revealed yesterday"

The Guardian - under the headline "Going, going, gone: UK treasures sold overseas".

Seriously? Could Mr Mark Brown (Arts Correspondent) really look at those first two surnames and with a straight face think 'Aha! UK treasures!'. France and the Netherlands might beg to differ.