This fight has been on permanent loop for decades and the feminists who fruitlessly perpetuate The Issue That Must Not Be Named are often unacceptably ignorantAmal Clooney, prominent human rights lawyer, has today started advising the Greek government in its bid to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, acquired the 2,500 year old classical Greek sculptures in the early 19th century through a possibly-dodgy deal with the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Having always intended them for display in the British Museum, they were placed there in 1816, where they remain to this day. Greece has been making efforts to get them back for a while, to which the British respond with arguments like but then we might have to give back all the other stuff weve pillaged and what if they get damaged, which seems weak when you consider that Elgins original transport ship actually sank on the way home and the Marbles had to be retrieved by a team of divers. Its the worlds most famous case of cultural restitution, and I will follow it with keen interest. Continue reading...
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