Following my article in Unherd about the Parthenon Marbles, Michael Portillo interviewed me on the subject for GB News.
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Following my article in Unherd about the Parthenon Marbles, Michael Portillo interviewed me on the subject for GB News.
The post What to do about the Parthenon Marbles – interviewed by Michael Portillo appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
From the very beginning, Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon’s statues and friezes caused something of a discursive British civil war. On one side were humanists, like Lord Byron; on the other were Empire apologists, who defend Elgin’s actions and support the British Museum’s inalienable property rights to the artefacts it, eventually, purchased from him. Over […]
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