Don't confuse the empire with the commonwealth. Calais and the Falklands were both seized by us hundreds of years ago. Is there a need to hang on to the latter, if there is no strategic or financial/resource based reason? If we still had Calais the asylum argument would have strange results. Sell or sell and leaseback the Falklands.
I don't agree with the Falklands being sold.
Sorry, I was being frivolous. I have no objection to the sale of the
Technically, our government can set the laws. Or in Boris's case, just simply ignore them.
It was george osborne who mooted it as a possibility, in his capacity as chair of the BM trustees. With their recent record on theft, the marbles wouldn't have to leave the country to get stolen though.
Looks like King CharlesGreece is prepared to part with some of its greatest treasures to “fill the void” at the British Museum if the Parthenon marbles were reunited in Athens, the country’s culture minister has said. “Our position is clear,” she said. “Should the sculptures be reunited in Athens, Greece is prepared to organise rotating exhibitions of important antiquities that would fill the void.”
Since the idea of a cultural exchange was mooted, soon after the centre-right New Democracy party of the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, won power in 2019, speculation has been rife that treasures including Agamemnon’s Mask – the gold funerary mask described by some historians as the “Mona Lisa of prehistory” – could be sent to Britain in return for the marbles.
It's all Greek to me@the Gurandia
Almost certainly not the face of Agamemnon but a worthy replacement for those lumps of marble?
In the right light...with the right amount of vino - sure, why not.
