The Curmudgeon

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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Whose Heritage Is It Anyway?

Thanks to the perfidious French, Britain may suffer international pressure to return various tokens of recompense for having civilised the lesser breeds. President Macron pledged to hand back artefacts looted from Benin and, in yet another demonstration of how far adrift Continental morals are from the mainland, it appears that the pledge may actually be carried out. Although Nigeria has hinted that it might consent to be loaned its own property, Britain has been subjected to bullying by mighty Ethiopia, while the perfidious Greeks have continued their long-running campaign to snatch back Lord Elgin's marbles. As the ambassador to Greece's oppressors at the time, Elgin filched the marbles from the Parthenon and then sold them to the British government: an act of national honour roughly equivalent to sending Lord Rothermere for a toddle through the Louvre in 1940 with Goebbels' blessing and a nice big trolley, and then allowing the British taxpayer to pay him for the takings.

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