Having your cup of tea dashed from your hand and told that it’s a grotesque symbol of colonial exploitation. These people are the new Lady Whiteadders, and deserve total contumely. (View Post)

Here it is. It’s quite crap art, and surely inessential, but it’s not what it’s been represented as by Wellcome (and parroted by the BBC). (View Post)

The thing I find offensive here is that the activity and language of the Wellcome Museum is the precise opposite of the empancipatory, liberal values of the Enlightenment. Instead of engaging, it see… (View Post)

It makes a series of questionable, sententious assertions about how problematic everything is (the objects, the founder, possibly the act of curation itself), before concluding that the only moral ch… (View Post)

Actually Leon is quite right about this particular instance, even if I demur on many of his other Twitter-inspired diatribes. Just read what Wellcome have said, it’s bonkers. (View Post)