She is Britain’s best known classicist, a Cambridge don with formidable intellect and a knack for getting people interested in all things ancient.
Haha, brilliant. Leavers have been vilified for nearly 4 years now - the tables are turning. Remainiacs don't like it when the boot is on the other foot. 😂🇬🇧
Good. She’s said some pretty stupid things.
Although a block due to her appalling, philistine imbecility could equally have been made. Amiright badassday?
Once again it comes down to whether the boss is secure in his or her own skin. Does he or she want qualified personnel filling positions, or flunkies and yes men?
Nice ... British museum! Looks like she is on the Acropolis ...
Good Call.
No.10 appease Hitler, has Boris and his cabinet no shame?
The UK in 2020: political purges of cultural figures reminiscent of the Soviet Union.
That's great
Absolutely right decision BorisJohnson the woman tried to rewrite history to suit her left wing agenda...
Reading all these comments from the hate filled but ill-informed rabble that didn't even bother reading the article (but who honestly reads Britain's 23 most popular paper anymore anyway?) is hilarious. I've never such impotent rage over something no-one cares about.
Isn't the britishmuseum independant of government?
When ? A prime minister ago.. Muppets
Oh dear! Number 10 Tories strike again.🙄
Solidarity with MB. I was deemed 'appointable' by NML_Muse but also blocked by DCMS without honest reason - Gov. clearly don't want progressive, disability rights, diversity, working-class, socialist input into museums who recognise they actually need it!
Excellent. Far too many lefties on these quangos.
Decision taken under May, buried down in the ninth paragraph. Nothing to do with Boris.
Under Theresa May. One of the only things she got right.
Excellent decision. All pro-Europe wallahs are persona non gratia.
10DowningStreet when do we start burning books?
10DowningStreet when do we start burning books?
This isn’t current affairs, it’s old news. Scrapping along on the bottom.
This happened whilst Theresa May was in office, so far down the article you may have missed it.
This blockage happened under May, do read on to paragraph 9, or is that too much digging!?
You reap what you sow
Inconvenient fact for the outraged: “The decision to turn down Beard is believed to have happened at the end of Theresa May’s premiership, when the museum proposed four new candidates for its board.” notBoris
True but only after the rejection by No10
We’ve seen the word fascism being rolled around a lot lately and with some justified criticism. But surely this is a pretty well bomb proof example?
How ridiculously petty and spiteful can this government get?
How like Trump BoJo is.
Very Trumpian
So much for ‘healing the divide’!
Bozo knows how superior her intellect is. That's why.
What on earth is wrong with the Tories!
That is awful welovemary wmarybeard Mary is so much better than our ridiculous, bully filled, dysfunctional government.
its funny how everything showing in the picture got nothing to do with british history ..almost everything is greek .. i bet if i come there with a few trucks and load the greek artifacts the museum will turn into a empty room.. lol
Deplorable. This is what the LittleEngland of BoJo and Cummings looks like.
Quick! Sign her up to Toby’s “free speech” club because this is EXACTLY what he wants to defend, right? I’m sure Toby and his fan boys are already tweeting furiously?
Shameful
So why the hell does 10 Downing Street have a say on who becomes a trustee of the British Museum? When did that start? And why?
'The decision to turn down Beard is believed to have happened at the end of Theresa May’s premiership, when the museum proposed four new candidates for its board. Three were accepted, all from the worlds of business and finance' Business and finance?
No10 now operating at 'full spite' level. Definately not about coming together or unity.
So Tories want to block all our best people who are most likely pro EU. That’s really going to make this country survive Brexitshambles .
That is a disgrace. She is a great asset for the world culture. It is too bad this fact occurred.
Mary Beard is a hero of free thought and Downing Street hate it
Looks like Brexit is getting done swiftly....
WTF was she offered the role when others including myself are as qualified?
nightsiren Politicization and yes men everywhere
Good grief 😱
'Will any Remainer now expect to be punished by the government?” And yet another page from the Trump handbook of government.
Wow. How far away are we from “re-education camps”?
Anything reported by the Graun can be trusted I’m sure.
Why ? Outrageous
These sort of actions by a governing power are early indicators of a dictatorship in the making.
What *are* they afraid of? wmarybeard
Pathetic Number10press
Wrong decision (again) guys. BorisJohnson carriesymonds OdysseanProject Jacob_Rees_Mogg
wmarybeard this is outrageous!
Seems you can't even get a job now if you so much as considered voting remain. 🙄
Aaaaah democracy.
Downing street wankers
Why, what's her Tory crime?
GothicBlue Clumsy interference by No10 - not v impressive...
An interesting article from a Merikkan perspective typical banter of Left vs right angles (getting old & boring) but those last two paragraphs spark my imagination
Johnson is running a dictatorship.
Brexit McCarthyism. The absolute state of our country!
To what depth are this lot in power prepared to sink to in order to try and control everything,are no institutions safe from their interference? They’ll cut funding next.
Good for the British Museum, taking care of this matter under their own constitution! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Bravo, I have just joined the British Museum as a member in order to support this decision.
Right, not worrying in the slightest. I thought this government was supposed to be bringing the country together? Its got a bloody funny way of going about it
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