#OTD in Paris, died Lord Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, 11th Earl of Kinkardine (1766-1841)

*** Unacknowledged Martyr of Western Culture ***

#ElginMarbles #ParthenonSculptures #BritishMuseum

Greece criticizes British Museum dinner among Parthenon Sculptures | eKathimerini.com Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has criticized the dinner organized by the British Museum in the hall housing the Parthenon Sculptures, calling it offensive.

Parthenon Sculptures used as "decorative elements" for inaugural Pink Ball dinner - hosted by British Museum
#ParthenonSculptures #ElginMarbles
www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1284...

“By organizing a fashion show in the halls where the #ParthenonSculptures are exhibited, the British Museum, once again, demonstrates its zero respect for the masterpieces of Phidias.”
... shame on them

“By organizing a fashion show in the halls where the #ParthenonSculptures are exhibited, the British Museum, once again, demonstrates its zero respect for the masterpieces of Phidias.”
... shame on them

Liz Truss: 'We stole the marbles, so they're English forever. That's how it works.'

#ParthenonSculptures #ElginMarbles

Usually with the right, I'm all "happily, they're wrong". On this this, I'm all, "sadly, they are wrong".

#culturalrestitution #BritishMuseum #ParthenonSculptures

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#ParthenonSculptures Still in UK
previously the #ElginMarbles
➕ #EarlElgin (stranger than fiction) www.britannica.com/biography/Th... 🔚 #MUSEUMS #BritishMuseum

British Museum is right to keep Parthenon marbles, says new trustee Historian Dr Tiffany Jenkins is one of the lineup of new appointees that has raised cultural and historical hackles

Behold the irony of a sociologist linked to a contrarian Trotskyite sect defending England's imperialist theft of the Parthenon Sculptures.

Tiffany Jenkins is part of the so-called Institute of Ideas, an offshoot of the Revolutionary Communist Party of old.

#ParthenonSculptures #FurediCult

Me in The @Independent on the @britishmuseum and the #ParthenonSculptures.
Give them back.

Handing stolen stuff back is a radical left idea, apparently.

Honestly, the Tories can't half be idiotic sometimes.

#culturalrestitution #parthenonsculptures #BritishMuseum

The Elgin Marbles' removal WAS lawful... we need the facts, not ideology As the Greek PM meets Sir Keir Starmer, a classically-trained archaeologist argues against repatriating the antiquities to Athens

"Here's why the #ElginMarbles' removal was lawful and why it matters more than ever" - my latest comment piece for the Daily Express (thanks @mattnixson.bsky.social !)

#ParthenonSculptures #BritishMuseum #Mitsotakis #Starmer

www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...

I just had a lovely chat with Nick Ferrari on #LBC about the #ElginMarbles. I told listeners how important it is to get a balanced, evidence-based view on this subject and how the Greek side (in UK too) is blinded by an ideological approach.

#norestitution #keepingourmarbles #ParthenonSculptures

#ElginMarbles / #ParthenonSculptures:
Just got a quote in for @skynewsrss.bsky.social breakfast show with @kayburley.bsky.social to explain why Lord Elgin's firman was the real deal and how the original was lost

Just from a practical point of view, It would be cheaper to fly to #Athens to see the #ElginMarbles than take a train to #London

#ParthenonSculptures #SkyNews #BBCBreakfast #GMB

How very sloppy of
@VicHislop
to say that "for me and for many, and now even more people who have done a bit of research and readings on how exactly Lord Elgin took the Marbles, it was not legal at all. The Marbles were stolen from Greece."
#elginmarbles #parthenonsculptures #britishmuseum

According to the British Museum "discussions with Greece for a Parthenon Sculptures partnership are On the ongoing negotiations to reunite the Parthenon Sculptures, the British Museum told ERTNews that "Discussions with Greece on the Parthenon partnership

My ERnews story has been published on the website of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, so I'm glad my English-speaking contacts can read it too.
The negotiations on a #ParthenonSculptures reunification deal. #BritishMuseum

www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...

As my first act on this platform, allow me to address one of the most eradicated (and baseless) myths about the #ElginMarbles: the question of permission.

🧵A thread of contemporary witness accounts proving Lord Elgin was given permission to remove the #ParthenonSculptures from the Acropolis

Rishi there's a wooden horse parked outside No 10, think it's for you #ParthenonSculptures #ElginMarbles

Rishi there's a wooden horse parked outside No 10, think it's for you #ParthenonSculptures #ElginMarbles

The Curse of Minerva (redux) Not the choice of the country art he Nor first choice of his chosen party Yet he declares in sorrowful tone That the Parthenon marbles are to be left alone Sundered from their original home Now they will not be allowed to roam Instead they moulder in imperial defeat The thieves' warehouse in Great Russell Street Myriad misfortunes I shall now bestow Upon the diminutive toadying tech bro Until the marbles are returned and restored I shall put this Tory to the electoral sword His polls shall find insufficient erection As his majority collapses in the general election

With apologies to Byron...

The Curse of Minerva (redux)

#ElginMarbles
#ParthenonSculptures

He could have chosen to cut the Gordian knot.
He ends up just issuing a petulant "not".
The difference between authoratatively making history & being resolutely overwhelmed by it.
#Sunak #LosingHisMarbles #ParthenonSculptures