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What? What has Italy or even the Romans have to do with a temple dated approx 495BC?

Almost right Panepistimio

Yes, there’s not much shelter from the sun. Did you see all the lovely artefacts on display found when digging for the metro for the 2008 Olympics? It’s the next station from Syntagma Square beginning with P. Panastimio?

I’ve seen them and never set foot in the British Museum. The remaining carvings in the frieze are still on the Parthenon, not having been hacked away by the equivalent of grave robbers. The next generation can easily fly, or drive to Athens, via ferry, to see them as they should be seen. The...

Rwanda don’t want to do deals with us because they’d lose some sovereignty. Oh, the irony.

Hong Kong was on a 99 year lease and now given back. If you knew that, why did you lump it in with Gibraltar?

Sigh. The Falklands were uninhabited islands over 800 miles from land. Gibraltar, I'll grant you but it was given away in a treaty.

Remember that when you’re burgled.

Yeah, who accepts second best?

On another note, it’s the duty of a Prime Minister to meet heads of State. Cancelling a meeting, apart from a national disaster, is just plain rude. Have the meeting, mumble some diplomatic niceties, and leave it at that.

There are some still attached to the Parthenon. Amazing after all these years.

I agree 100%. It was vandalism by the British.