Boris Johnson’s Government Tries To Block Mary Beard As A British Museum Trustee For Her ‘Pro-Europe Views’

That’s not going over well at the Museum. “In response to the first rejection of a proposed British Museum trustee by No 10 for many years, the museum is understood to be planning to take matters into its own hands and appoint Beard without the lengthy and sometimes byzantine process of the Whitehall system.” – The Observer (UK)