Loot and Plunder
@lootplunder
On stolen stuff and other treasure, by Andrew Heavens, author of The Prince and the Plunder, about how the UK took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia
Wild camping won! theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…
A big judgment coming next Wednesday. Will Dartmoor remain the last place where we can camp freely in England? Or will the landowners win?
"We are going to do whatever it takes to take back Africa's belongings. And we're going to do it together!" Relooted, coming soon from South African game developer Nyamakop @nyamakop youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734
Great to see you there! Though I'm just out of shot : )
Great to exchange views with old and new acquaintances, on both sides of the debate, among which @Timloghton, @artlawalex, @lootplunder, @iandritsopoulos , @jimmellas and @ellymariasymons ! It is a small village after all 😃 Who knows, I may even have planted the seeds for a…
Great to exchange views with old and new acquaintances, on both sides of the debate, among which @Timloghton, @artlawalex, @lootplunder, @iandritsopoulos , @jimmellas and @ellymariasymons ! It is a small village after all 😃 Who knows, I may even have planted the seeds for a…
"About 85 per cent of people in immigration custody are held in places run for profit, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an archive of government data and reports." ig.ft.com/us-immigration…
We don't need plunder. We have enough treasure of our own. The southern door at St. Nicholas Church, Barfrestone (pop. 60) near Dover - s645975992.websitehome.co.uk "One of the best late Norman churches in Kent," said John Betjeman.
You've heard of the Prince and the Plunder. Meet the Love Guru and the Loot. Lytchett Minster Parish Church, Sunday
Here starts the campaign for Britain to repatriate the plundered acronym "PAC", in fact the whole concept. It belongs in the US of A. "Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges." theguardian.com/culture/2025/j…
"And, very soon, in return ..."
Well done @britishmuseum Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK for the first time in 900 years thetimes.com/article/a3c950…
Thrilled to report that Barbara Blake Hannah - yes *that* Barbara Blake Hannah - has reviewed "The Prince and the Plunder"! "So vivid and descriptive that at times I felt I was watching a documentary film, not just reading a book." Thank you @BBlakeHannah theprinceandtheplunder.com/2025/07/02/rev…
The South London Press - where I did my first work experience - just "abruptly" shut down. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/reg… The first newspapers to pay me - the @chardandilynews and the @ExpressandStar - are still there, but scaled down. Brave new future a little less shiny this am.
Bow down to him on Saturday / Salute him now his birthday's come #happybirthday #bobdylan
Signed photograph of Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy and Albania, Empress of Ethiopia ... briefly Yours for up to 200 Swiss francs ($240) the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…
A 1930s anti-fascism poster with 'Abisinia' as the victim. "Envy and Greed have married, and from this vile marriage is born, like a fruit of rot, the law of the strongest ... or the most envious." A historical artefact with nothing to teach us today. the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…
Very excitingly, the @V_and_A has started taking bookings for its Order an Object scheme. You order things from the museum's vast storerooms - and they bring them out to you! Here are my 5 treasures from Britain's 1868 Abyssinian "expedition". Have a go vam.ac.uk/info/order-an-…
"Do cremated ashes classify as human remains? Should there be international trade in religious relics? What, in the words of the fictive archaeologist Indiana Jones, 'belongs in a museum'?" And don't get me started on tabots. ft.com/content/489a12… via @ft @mgerlis
