British Museum – defending colonial theft

The British Museum is doing nothing to improve the UK’s reputation by falling back on lame excuses for not handing back either the looted Greek Elgin Marbles or the Nigerian Benin Bronzes. Germany has handed back their Benin pieces and the Vatican has repatriated Parthenon marble fragments which makes it worse.  There have been discussions about a ‘partnership’ with Greece with a quid pro quo for a loan of other historical artifacts coming back to the UK but it is unlikely