Craig Simpson

Arts Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph @Telegraph

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Dispatch from Sudan:

In a Khartoum ruin, a plaque split by shellfire bears fragments of a name: Charles George Gordon

Sudan wants UK help to rebuild this ravaged palace - where the ongoing civil war began, and where Gordon of Khartoum made his last stand https://t.co/elVXKiw8A3

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🇬🇷🏛️ An archaeologist who opposes returning the Elgin Marbles to Athens says he has been “cancelled” by Greece

@elginmarbles argues the British Museum legally owns the sculptures, and claims the modern repatriation movement has turned archaeology into political theatre ⤵️
https://t.co/FugeNJyQa7

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Curators are still trying to please a painter who all too frequently saw red

https://t.co/i5xt2SWSj5

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A British regiment has handed back the bloodstained artefacts of an Ethiopian emperor.

Return is symbolic step in Addis Ababa’s mission to reclaim treasures from foreign powers - including from the collection of King Charles https://t.co/mqh8d2dVYg

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British collection hands over sacred Jain manuscripts “unethically” bought from India https://t.co/7ED24axhkW

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A British regiment has handed back the bloodstained artefacts of an Ethiopian emperor.

Return is symbolic step in Addis Ababa’s mission to reclaim treasures from foreign powers - including from the collection of King Charles https://t.co/mqh8d2dVYg

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Brighton Museum will return artefacts to Africa to “give them meaning” in a first for a British institution

Find out what this could mean for the future of restoration in the UK ⤵️
https://t.co/2Ba8AXenTE

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Festival and theatre bosses have been told to stop “capitulating” to pro-Palestine activists in a guide backed by MPs.

🔗: https://t.co/CnQVcZfAIm

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New: United Nations votes to insist that Britain should pay slavery reparations

African Union pushed a resolution demanding colonial powers offer “compensation” for slavery.

Russian, China and Iran voted in favour

Britain abstained https://t.co/DnUS78lttl

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And the whole thing could lay the groundwork for a legal battle inspired by the Chagos deal

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EXCL: Africa could exploit international law to secure slavery reparations from Britain

African Union wants ICJ case to replicate the successful legal strategy that pushed Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government to hand over the Chagos Islands. https://t.co/nq2YElbK9O

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New: United Nations votes to insist that Britain should pay slavery reparations

African Union pushed a resolution demanding colonial powers offer “compensation” for slavery.

Russian, China and Iran voted in favour

Britain abstained https://t.co/DnUS78lttl

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Comes after a successful lobbying effort led by Ghana

https://t.co/0xRv9N6VB2

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Excl: African nations are lobbying countries across the world to accuse Britain of playing a key part in “the worst crime in history”.

Delegates in New York are pushing states including China to reach an agreement on the Transatlantic Slave Trade https://t.co/woG2A5pUhK

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Really amazing research https://t.co/FY6Q2SSquO

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Excl: African nations are lobbying countries across the world to accuse Britain of playing a key part in “the worst crime in history”.

Delegates in New York are pushing states including China to reach an agreement on the Transatlantic Slave Trade https://t.co/woG2A5pUhK

[Craig Simpson @Craig_Simpson_]

EXCL: Africa could exploit international law to secure slavery reparations from Britain

African Union wants ICJ case to replicate the successful legal strategy that pushed Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government to hand over the Chagos Islands. https://t.co/nq2YElbK9O

[Craig Simpson @Craig_Simpson_]

Excl: African nations are lobbying countries across the world to accuse Britain of playing a key part in “the worst crime in history”.

Delegates in New York are pushing states including China to reach an agreement on the Transatlantic Slave Trade https://t.co/woG2A5pUhK

[Craig Simpson @Craig_Simpson_]

EXCL: Africa could exploit international law to secure slavery reparations from Britain

African Union wants ICJ case to replicate the successful legal strategy that pushed Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government to hand over the Chagos Islands. https://t.co/nq2YElbK9O

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New from Sudan: The search Lord Kitchener…

A missing bust of Lord Kitchener’s is being pursued by the Sudanese under a national effort to trace artefacts looted during the country’s bloody civil war.

Intelligence services are hunting stolen artefacts. https://t.co/e1YPa51F2R

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New from Sudan: The search Lord Kitchener…

A missing bust of Lord Kitchener’s is being pursued by the Sudanese under a national effort to trace artefacts looted during the country’s bloody civil war.

Intelligence services are hunting stolen artefacts. https://t.co/e1YPa51F2R

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EXCL: British petrolheads are being asked to help restore a Rolls-Royce used by Queen Elizabeth II that was machine-gunned during Sudan’s civil war.
https://t.co/VeUMgLXAKY

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EXCL: British petrolheads are being asked to help restore a Rolls-Royce used by Queen Elizabeth II that was machine-gunned during Sudan’s civil war.
https://t.co/VeUMgLXAKY