Having caught the eye of Elon Musk, the years-long outrage of predominantly Pakistani-Muslim rape gangs preying on underage U.K. girls has this month come to far wider attention than ever before, both at home and internationally. In the sorry annals of this scandal, one of the repeated travesties is the many opportunities for it to be brought to wider attention that were missed. And if at times this was to do with the cowardice of individual police officers, journalists or social workers (not to mention the deafening silence from the Pakistani community itself, of course), at times it was the result of efforts, inadvertent or otherwise, of Left-wing activists to suppress knowledge of what was happening, for fear of upsetting community relations or giving succour to the ‘far-Right’.
While reports of on-street grooming gangs go back at least as far as the 1970s, an opportunity came to lift the lid on the scandal in 2004 with Edge of the City, a Channel 4 documentary about the experiences of social workers in Bradford.
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What an absolute farce modernising the past is. Maybe just leave the past as we find it and accept the present as it is.
Tut, tut, dear sir. You’re entirely insufficiently post-modern. Everything is just what we make of it. Since the past is defenseless and harmless, revolutionizing it is always easily possible.
This should be artisans and not artists and my suggestion would be “Let them have it”. The descendents of the people who created these works can keep them should they value the work of their ancestors. Or melt them to turn them into ammunition. Or whatever they want to do with them.
That would serve no good purpose. Certain things, such as great art and antiquities, transcend conventional concepts of ownership and must be considered as belonging to all humanity. A person or organisation may pay millions for the privilege of having custody of these brilliant, irreplaceable objects, but where their loss would be a loss to all humanity, they cannot have the right to destroy.
We can all benefit so much from having these pieces on public display, and perhaps the ideal situation would be to have some in Europe, some in America, some in their native Africa, and so on. But if there is a real risk of them being lost forever in Africa, we in the west, as their supposedly enlightened guardians, have a duty to shield them.
If you want this seriously crude stuff, feel free to keep it on your lawn or in your attic or whatever other place suits you. If it was mine, I’d advertise it as free to collect. Curiosities from all over the empire are not part of my cultural heritage. Here, I sort-of agree with the wokesters: They want this because they believe it’s valuabe (in the sense of $$$). And my opinion on that is If they believe this is valuable, the problem of storing it should be theirs.