Anna Keay: evaluation

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…Flip a coin if you have to. Well, yes, you could do that. You could do that, but I’m not sure where it gets you, really. Then you start saying, “Well, what about all the other things?” Do you go for a massive repatriation? You’d empty a lot of museums, and I’m not sure you’d solve a lot of problems, really. It’s been there for a long time. I don’t think there’s an easy solution. I don’t think there’s a kind of act that you could take in relation to that stone, which would involve Britain saying, “Well, that’s fine. We don’t need to have it anymore,” that would do anything other than cause infinitely more conflict and aggro because it would open up the whole question of all these other moments of conflict when the stone was taken. I just don’t see that gets you very far. It’s not being used in the coronation, which I think is very wise, and it’s an object which can be seen and viewed and discussed by all of us. But I wouldn’t start passing it around the world, myself. Here’s a reader question: “Why do houses in Britain have so little storage?”…

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