British museum names Sir Mark Jones as new director
Sir Mark Jones, 72, has been appointed interim director of the British Museum after Hartwig Fischer resigned from the post amid the theft of more than 2,000 historical artefacts
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Sir Mark Jones, 72, has been appointed interim director of the British Museum after Hartwig Fischer resigned from the post amid the theft of more than 2,000 historical artefacts
Calls are coming from Cornwall and Scotland for artefacts to be returned to their homeland, after a Welsh MP demanded the British Museum give back Wales' treasures.
Yves here. As much as the UK Government looks determined to drive into the nation into a ditch rather than climb down from its negotiation overreach, and the Tories’ pro-finance, austerity policies have hurt Scotland, Wales, and the hollowed out North, it sadly doesn’t necessarily follow that breaking up Britain would make things better in less than a generation. As Chris Grey has stressed, one of the problems with Brexit is the UK is too small to go it alone in a world of regional trade blocks, particularly since it depends on a lot of imported goods. This problem goes double for an inde...