British Museum chair George Osborne says 'groupthink' to blame for crisis

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British Museum chair George Osborne has blamed 'groupthink' for the institution’s leadership failing to believe that treasures had been taken, after an estimated 2,000 artefacts were stolen from the museum.

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The article should just read.. "Stolen treasures stolen!"

badboyChef

Ya won’t get a straight answer from George Osborn

darrinmcneill

The headline for this video is inconsistent with the detail within it and probably wrong. The headline says that Osborne blamed groupthink. The video then says that Osborne said it may have been to blame. One is a definite assertion; the other is merely a speculation. It's poor journalism.

matthewleitch

it was him = he got a history of stealing stuff

frankbevan

Don't bother posting on YT if you don't have a coherent narrative. That was just a bunch of clips with text. Rubbish.

edwardalexander

According to a BBC article on this, the British Museum (BM) has over 8 million artefacts in its collection. The difficulty of maintaining accurate records in such a case is considerable and I think people need to be aware of this. I'm not saying this excuses failure, but it explains why the failure is not a basic one indicating stupidity. Further, according to the art dealer who has been pushing this story along, one item in the catalogue was a collection of 942 gems, catalogued by counting them but not itemizing every one. According to him, 935 have gone missing, so that's potentially 935 items, if you count each gem as an item instead of the collection as one item. If he has counted that as 935 thefts then we're not far off the guesstimated 1500 - 2000.

A second point arising from the fact that the BM has over 8 million artefacts in its collection is that, even if 2, 000 have been lost, that is only 0.025% of the total. Individual artefacts stored by the BM remain safe, with a very, very high probability.

matthewleitch

This has been going on for years its a perk, sale off some obscure artifact to a private dealer, make a few quid off to benidorm 💃💃

VilhelmHammershoi

Can we all have some of what George has been smoking please?

Mike_

What's group And why is staff member unnamed Name and shame

poplife

It doesn't matter who's to blame for the theft of the stuff you stole from other countries. Give it all back and stop complaining.

camoTiara

How much of what's in the British Museum was looted? Stolen from others? Imagine a thief complaining of theft! Poetic justice much.

scatmann

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