Why Britain must lose its marbles

The latest twist in the tale of the invaluable, ancient Parthenon sculptures of Greece, better known as the Elgin Marbles in the UK, is particularly revealing. The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote last week in an article in The Guardian that “Greece cannot accept any arrangement that would require it to recognise the British Museum’s ownership of the sculptures, or a scheme that would mean we ‘borrow’ parts of our own monument”. Given that the British Museum has spent (and raked in) huge amounts of money to bring the Bayeux Tapestry “back” to the UK to be exhibited for…