It is still just about possible, even this deep into the seemingly never-ending silly season that’s been running since about 2014, for a news story to take your breath away. Last week it was revealed that the curators of Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum have removed from display the mummified remains of the Egyptian priest Nekht, among other bits and bobs, because of an ‘absence of consent’. Presumably they are waiting for time travel to be invented, so that somebody can nip back 4,000 years and get Nekht to fill out the appropriate forms.
We need to de-decolonise Britain
