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.
Climate Crisis
Visual Capitalist: Visualizing the Accumulation of Human-Made Mass on Earth
The material dimensions of capitalism are staggering. In 2020, the amount of human-made mass exceeded for the first time the dry weight of all life on Earth. Its current increase corresponds to each person on […]
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Branko Milanovic: Dutiful dirges of Davos
Davos: “They are loath to pay a living wage, but they will fund a philharmonic orchestra. They will ban unions, but they will organize a workshop on transparency in government.” Read here
EU politics
The Guardian: EU doesn’t need the City of London, says chief Brexit negotiator
Bad news for the City of London, but negotiations are a long and tortuous process, full of surprises. Read here
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