They point out that Elgin had a permit from the Ottoman occupying forces in Athens to take what he liked from the Acropolis — which, they insist, gave him the right to own and to sell on whatever he removed…..Imagine if the Nazi occupying forces in Paris had granted some gentleman a permit to remove statues from the Louvre. Or if Putin’s men in Mariupol were, today, to grant a visiting antiquities dealer a permit to remove priceless artefacts from a local museum. The very notion that these permits bestow secure property rights over the removed artefacts is an affront to every decent person worldwide.
Corruption
Wyn Grant: The murky world of lobbying
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (Speri) Despite recent reforms, there are still concerns that the activities of lobbyists lack transparency and are insufficiently regulated Read here
Geopolitics
The New Arab: British pro-Israel lawyer admits staging graffiti attack to frame Palestine solidarity group
Matthew Berlow has confessed to helping fake an anti-Semitic graffiti attack on his own home in order to defame the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Read Article HERE Scottish lawyer John Berlow [Twitter]
EU politics
Business Review – Anti-judiciary laws protests in Romania: Tens of thousands call for resignation of government
While we are inundated by reporting in the mainstream press concerning judiciary reforms in Poland, oddly few people know that something similar is occuring in Romania, although in Romania there is much more popular participation […]
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