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Art UK publishes an annual report of new public sculptures, including those of “named men and women”. Last year, it says, there were more statues erected to the living than to the dead. It distinguishes these 26 persons by race – 10 black and 16 white – and by sex – 12 women and 14 men. The charity says disapprovingly that the people depicted in our public sculpture remain “overwhelmingly white men”.

She was probably the most happily married monarch in British history, enjoying 21 years of blissful union. So it's fitting that Queen Victoria was the first wedding influencer.

It is the suitably low desk on which the 5ft 2in Victorian architect Augustus Welby Pugin designed the Palace of Westminster.

Ceremony and bizarre ritual aside, this is an important moment in the parliamentary calendar to stridently pray for our nation, our government, our parliament, our democracy, our monarch, our leaders.

The mountains, lochs and rivers are ravishing. But it’s the artists from Glasgow – that one-time hotbed of modernism – who bring a rawness to these lavish new galleries celebrating Scotland’s art