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The man who ushered in the flipping craze in the 2010s reflects on how the practice has changed—and metastasized.

'You guys should get out of London. Go and talk to people who are not rich Remainers,' Dominic Cummings once told a mob of hacks on his doorstep.

Painted by a madman? Edvard Munch's The Scream Credit: Hemis / Alamy Even if you don’t know The Scream, you know The Scream. In the century since Norwegian artist Edvard Munch produced his most famous work, its mouth-gaping, head-clutching central image has become a universal shorthand for existential angst.  But this week, the solution to an enduring mystery surrounding the painting has prompted a reassessment of the artist’s relationship to his own work. A conservation project at the National Museum of Norway has revealed that a line of what was thought to be graffiti on the canvas of...