My review of #TheMarbles, the new propaganda flick by David Wilkinson celebrating the efforts of the BCPRM and the destruction of Scottish museum collections on the altar of restitution: thecritic.co.uk/calling-bull...

What's happening in the world of the Elgin Marbles? A great conversation with Momus Najmi where I bring him up to speed on three major developments youtu.be/K1KC_8Emztw?...

This pic is soooo hilarious, even more than the topic of the study day 😂

Did they remove the scaffolding just to take Melina's picture in the 80s? Or maybe Dr Mendoni's claim that it's the first time we see the building without scaffolding in 200 years is just bollocks?

Ever wondered what telling the Greeks (in Athens!) they cannot have the Elgin Marbles back looks like? Worry not: no British scholars were harmed in the production of this event youtu.be/Oaf_HLvxM64?...

Our latest opinion piece in our ongoing debate over the repatriation of the Parthenon sculptures is now out. In "Recorded facts and different stories" @dr-m-trabucco.bsky.social argues in favour of retention.

See the latest current debate article '‘Recorded Facts’ and ‘Different Stories’: A Response to Catharine Titi' by Mario Trabucco della Torretta: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

"Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has become the latest senior UK political figure to call for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, saying it is important to respect public opinion on the issue." www.linkedin.com/pulse/northe...

Oh look, academics run scared of evidence-based confrontation on the #ElginMarbles here as well! Then it's just like that other place! 😂

Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.

Just listening to @thehistoryguy.bsky.social's latest episode of the History Hit podcast, on the history of the Elgin Marbles. Immediately, one question comes to mind: why do you call two Greeks on, if you want to give a balanced view of the issue?

Does the Acropolis Museum deserve the Elgin Marbles? I would say it does not thecritic.co.uk/museum-of-ho...

My letter to the Times in response to Baroness Debbonaire and Lord Frost's column the other day about a permanent return of the #ElginMarbles

My latest piece on The Critic, in which I discuss the most recent "progress" in the #ElginMarbles "loan" negotiations and one very problematic aspect, which will make everything fall apart thecritic.co.uk/where-should...

New Elgin-Marbles video coming soon. Stay tuned!

Have you read my latest comment piece against the #repatriation of cultural items in today's Daily Express? Look for the insert inside Simon De Bruxelles' feature (with thanks to @mattnixson.bsky.social ) www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2055...

What does #StGeorge have to do with the #ElginMarbles? As it turns out, quite a bit. Find out with me in the next episode of Marbles Games, my YouTube series on the Elgin Marbles and their wider cultural context! youtu.be/DL2O-TSuldc

Did you miss me? Worry not, as The Daily Sceptic has got you covered: enjoy the latest episode of the "The Sceptic" podcast, with my interview with Laurie Wastell! youtu.be/GDNBH_lL-QA?...

National institutions should be the temple of our national identity. Instead, they seem to be actively working against it youtu.be/5Nb5reaU7hM?...

If you have time today, listen to the fascinating discussion I had with John Gilliam on the Thinking Class podcast the other day, which just hit the screens today. We discussed the #BritishMuseum, the #ElginMarbles, #FakeHistory narratives, and the future of #Museums. youtu.be/dYbVcWQuiu8?...

"Regarding these monuments of our ancestors, sacrifice them if you must, in order to win our liberty, which will bring us our new monuments" (The people of Athens in 1822, as reported by O. Voutier) #25ηΜαρτιου #Akropolis #Athens #CulturalHeritage #GreekIndependenceDay

Not sure how does this work: you have allowed" the wider political context" to make that "progress", but now you won't allow today's "wider political context" to undo it just because you don't like this one? #consistency

New video out! In this new instalment of my series "Marble Games", I explain why the mainstream narrative of the "stolen #ElginMarbles" is wrong and provide evidence of how things actually went. youtu.be/sJfAj7tBvUE

This is SO brave!!!!

Important & meticulous corrective by Staffan Lunden on Dan Hicks' much-praised 2020 book _Brutish Museums_ about the 1897 looting of the Benin bronzes. I am among the many who uncritically accepted Hicks' unsubstantiated claims about the staggering ... 1/3 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do objects related to former colonisers, which may now former part of museum collections in former colonies, get repatriated? Is #repatriation/#restitution a one-way street?

For #MuseumSelfieDay, here I am with Metope South VI of the Parthenon at the British Museum, one of the few pieces of the #ElginMarbles not to have actually been taken by Elgin (French consul Fauvel stole it and sent it to FR, the ship was captured, and the metope sold as prize... to Elgin!)

My interview for Italian newspaper Sole24Ore, where I explain why #Greece has no right to claim the #ElginMarbles: www.ilsole24ore.com/art/la-greci...

Apparently, the unelected officials at the #BritishMuseum are hard at work behind closed doors to make the museum a whole notch less British, with an agreement on how and how much of the #ElginMarbles to give away to Greece being "closer".

The #ElginMarbles presence in London is proof of our European identity. Giving them away to strengthen ties to #Europe is an unacceptable contradiction thecritic.co.uk/marble-arch/

RIP Kostas Simitis (1936-2025), Greek prime minister who had his own private reasons to ask for the #repatriation of the #ElginMarbles: youtu.be/gXp3cbP9JKE?...

"The greatest of all blessings is to live and think more clearly than the vulgar herd, to shine in the contests of words" Aristophanes, Clouds

The best Christmas present this year? The truth about the #ElginMarbles, Lord Elgin's noble motives, & our cultural love history with Antiquity. Let's vow to respect history as it was instead of how we would have liked it to have been & to research & understand it in all its kaleidoscopic nuance!

It may certainly look the same, but... ... does it FEEL the same? Say no to #FakeMarbles in the #BritishMuseum!

When your son asks you to help him with his Legos and then leaves you unattended...

No, slavery WAS considered right and now it IS not. The passing of time and the changing of ideas are not indifferent in this discussion. If we started the discussion by accepting historical reality for what it was, and not what we would have liked it to have been, we would make lots of progress.

Not the movie we needed, but definitely the one we deserve!

Interviewed by Greek television, Alexander Herman spells it out to the Greeks that #ElginMarbles are not stolen and Lord Elgin did have permission for removal. I wonder how this is sinking in with Hellenic audiences, trained since the school benches to think that the marbles were taken illegally?

When considering #ElginMarbles, we must remember that not only did Greece not exist in 1801 (and could not therefore be subject of "rights" or have "voice" in matter of the removal), but that also sensibility required to even think of raising concern was not something the Greeks of that period had.

So much of what you may think you know about the #ElginMarbles is false. The truth is quite different, and as Aristoteles says, between friendship and the truth, you must choose truth. 👇🏻 a few remarks I delivered in Oxford this last May: youtu.be/kchF83FpIeU?...

"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

"A legal resolution that avoids amending laws... is being explored as the only feasible path forward". Don't you all see how ridiculous this sounds? #elginmarbles #britishmuseum #norestitution #handsoffthemarbles

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

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