STEALING is wrong as any Tory MP, high civil servant or other pillar of the establishment will tell you. But if the nicking is done by a member of the artistocracy then that's OK it's called art preservation.
Early in the 19th centhe British bassador in Athens took a lancy to the Marble which were adorning the Parthenon.
Being a top man - he was the Earl of Elgin he believed that a bit of what you fancied did you SO he had the marbles removed to decorate his own pad.
The Earl was a bit of patriot so he decided to sell the Marbles to the great British nation.
Now this uppity Melina Mercouri, the Greek Minister Culture, wants them back because she says they Greek. This claim is based on the flimsy evidence that These were called the Elgin marbles after the thief who nicked them.
Great Train Robbery the Biggs's notes? some Grecian sculptor: made lis 2,400 for the Acropolis ycal: ago.
But she has been put in her place by the British Museum's director David Wilson He says: 'It's all very keep making impassioned nationalistic pleas for us to return something written by day not one Nissan executive left Europe on a