Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ

Editor @TheCustodian25
Trustee @V_and_A
Jury Member @PrixPictet
Deputy Editor @History_Reclaim
Advisory Board Member @Prosperity_Inst

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

@WillKnocker Thank you so much!!

[BijanOmrani @BijanOmrani]

Here is an important article by @nigelbiggar on the issues about Project Spire - the £100m "reparations" (or "repair", using the Church's word) payment for slavery by the Church Commissioners. Gift link in thread...

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

@edwest Thank you Ed ☺️💫

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

Happy Orthodox Tewahedo Christmas!
መልካም፡ገና።
ርሑስ፡በዓል፡ልደት።

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

@dampierguy Thanks Guy! 🙏✨

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

@Nigel22335301 @TheCustodian25 @HilaryMcGrady Sadly yes.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

National Trust Director-General @HilaryMcGrady is to be appointed a CBE.
For context, more NT rooms, wings, floors and houses than ever before are closed off to the public with the shortage of funds given as an excuse, even as vanity projects on non-NT land abound; and Hilary herself (thanks to pay rise after pay rise) is on a salary of £227,765 with up to £20,000 in additional benefits while the median salary for National Trust employees is under £27,000 and staff are being made redundant because apparently there isn't enough money.
Sad times.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

How is it that someone who has overseen the destruction of one of our greatest national charities can be deemed meritorious of such a prestigious award?

[The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum]

A beloved holiday moment for New Yorkers and visitors alike: The Met’s Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque Nativity are now on view through January 6! ✨

Nestled in the Medieval Sculpture Hall, the installation features a beautifully illuminated twenty-foot blue spruce rising above an eighteenth-century Neapolitan manger scene. Silk-robed angels float overhead as dozens of beautifully detailed figures gather below, bringing the warmth and bustle of a Mediterranean harbor town to the heart of the Museum.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

Merry Christmas! ✨

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

I would love to have a chat if you would be interested! I focus on these topics for my Substack The Custodian (see bio) and always find it valuable to hear first-hand accounts from people within the heritage sector.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

@Jilly03964397 Why is her dress see-through? 🤔

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

Items should never be loaned to institutions that claim the artefacts are rightfully theirs, because it suggests that the borrower feels no moral obligation to return the items, rendering the risk of items not returning high. This is, of course, obvious: in no other context apart from so-called “contested heritage” would museum curators consider lending to a museum unless they were sure that the item would be looked after with care before then being returned.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

While the @britishmuseum's mass loan of ancient artefacts to an Indian museum may be more benign than the Telegraph suggested, I argue in this new piece that we should be wary of long-term loans that are surrounded with "decolonisation" rhetoric. https://t.co/tUhF7pku0K

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

My fear with all these long-term loans is that they will just get renewed once the initial three years are up. National museums are using self-renewing long term loans as a loophole around the Heritage Act, which prevents permanent return of artefacts.
https://t.co/pYaNNlENVe

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

As I explain, the British Museum has previously used "renewable long-term loans" as a loophole around legislation preventing the permanent repatriation of artefacts. Such extensions could in theory roll on indefinitely, turning a loan into a de facto permanent transfer while ownership stays on paper with the lender.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

@mrcharlesamos *subsidising 😜

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

In fact I think the long-term aim is to have the artefacts abroad for long enough that by then the Heritage Act will have been amended (God forbid) and they are allowed to de-accession the artefacts.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

My fear with all these long-term loans is that they will just get renewed once the initial three years are up. National museums are using self-renewing long term loans as a loophole around the Heritage Act, which prevents permanent return of artefacts.
https://t.co/pYaNNlENVe

[The Custodian @TheCustodian25]

Is the National Trust Christianophobic?

The Trust’s management refused to grant a Christian documentary maker permission to film at St Cuthbert’s Cave due to a fear of "religious affiliation", yet they have no qualms with Islamic affiliation.

READ MORE: https://t.co/zjwyT7RS5W

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

The postponing of mayoral elections in areas where results will likely be unfavourable to @UKLabour betrays the gov's fear about being held accountable for their woeful governing of Britain.

If we're getting rid of democracy, why not just return to rule by monarchy?

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

EXCL: Labour will postpone four mayoral elections until 2028, The Sun can reveal

Four new combined authorities – Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and Brighton, and Norfolk and Suffolk – will have their mayoral polls pushed back two years. https://t.co/alMZui4gQ4