内容摘要：The photos and story appear in Towns' new book, the Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas.

The photos and story appear in Towns' new book, the Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas.

Several senior Democrats have claimed that accepting the gift would be illegal.Democratic Senator Adam Schiff

that said no elected official could accept "any present... of any kind whatever" from the leader of a foreign state without congressional approval.Frank Cogliano, a professor of American history at the University of Edinburgh, says this clause "was intended to prevent bribery to influence the government"."It is certainly stretching the Constitution and we have not seen a gift on this scale, or of this nature", says Professor Andrew Moran, a constitutional law expert at London Metropolitan University.

There have been a number of other laws passed by Congress relating to the acceptance of foreign gifts, such as the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act of 1966, which means that congressional consent is required for the acceptance of foreign gifts above a certain value.Currently US officials can

Although Trump has referred to the plane ultimately going to his "library", experts have suggested he really means his museum foundation.

Ex-presidents typically have a library housing their archive of documents, and a museum - typically funded by private donations - full of memorabilia and open to the public.The fierce battle over artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright - which pits the government against some of the biggest names in the creative industry - returns to the House of Lords on Monday with little sign of a solution in sight.

A huge row has kicked off between ministers and peers who back the artists, and shows no sign of abating.It might be about AI but at its heart are very human issues: jobs and creativity.

It's highly unusual that neither side has backed down by now or shown any sign of compromise; in fact if anything support for those opposing the government is growing rather than tailing off.This is "unchartered territory", one source in the peers' camp told me.