Cambridge University has secretly handed over 116 Benin bronzes to be the personal possession of the Nigerian descendant of a brutal slave-trading king. The descendants of the slaves are up in arms, says Mike Wells.
Dumping of sewage into rivers is supposed to happen only 'exceptionally'. But in Odell it occurred for over a third of the year. In Bedford it may be worse – but the monitoring equipment is broken, says Mike Wells.
Nick Merriman OBE quietly quit English Heritage on June 24th "for personal reasons" after just a year as chief executive. Mike Wells wonders if other factors are at play as the woke quango runs out of money.
First opened in 1889, Waterlow Park is now overrun with air-polluting barbecues and noisy parties. Mike Wells bemoans the poor management of this once-beautiful public space by Camden Council.
A Labour-run council has been forced to scrap London's latest LTN following a huge swell of local opposition pointing out the anti-car scheme's obvious flaws. No proper consultation as usual, says Mike Wells.
The saga of the Benin bronzes takes a farcical new turn this week as a museum is inaugurated, but there are no bronzes to go in it because the heir to the brutal Benin slavers has claimed them all as his private property.
The campaign to save Benin bronzes in the world's museums was unexpectedly boosted in Zurich last week when a descendant of those enslaved by the African kingdom stood up and demanded the bloody truth be acknowledged.
A Sunday Times journalist's description of female genital mutilation as "circumcision" in an article about the Pitt Rivers Museum reveals her ignorance, says Mike Wells. Either that, or she's being 'culturally sensitive'.
Mike Wells uncovers more green waste as Kirklees council confirms in an FOI that it is not monitoring the results of an eco-housing pilot scheme highlighted in Keir Starmer's 2022 Labour conference speech.
The EU will keep turning a blind eye to Ireland's lucrative Corporation Tax wheeze as long as it keeps taking in the migrants and refugees, says Mike Wells.
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