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“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another” – Plato

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    • Funding the Portable Antiquities Scheme: The debate continues

      Many questions but few answers are forthcoming from the Government about the future of one of its most successful schemes.

    • News from Westminster

      Yvonne Aburrow can take credit for this. Following her reminder over the PAS petition a couple of weeks ago I wrote to my MP. I came home yesterday and found I had a letter from the House of Commons. My MP had already signed EDM 566, asking for funding for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Nonetheless [...]

    • Is the role of Government to govern?

      I’ve signed up to the RSS feeds for They Work For You. It seems quite a few people have been taking an interest in the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

      It’s useful because it means you can keep track of exchanges like this:
      James Gray (North Wiltshire, Conservative):
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what [...]

    • The Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Indifference of Government

      Yvonne Aburrow has reminded me that if I want to blog about the financial crisis facing the Portable Antiquities Scheme then I’d better do it soon. I haven’t till now because many people have blogged about this I don’t want to simply say me too. There’s also the problem that I don’t want to be [...]