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Hello, I'm Natasha Faroze and this is Spectator Out Loud. Each week we ask three of our writers to read their pieces from the magazine.

On this week's episode, Katie Balls on what the Elgin Marbles row was really about. Lionel Shriver

on feckless politicians when it comes to immigration. And Marcus Walker are multi-faith prayer rooms.

First up, Katie Balls.

The Elgin Marbles should leave list northern whiskey drinking guilt culture

and be displayed where they belong,

in a country of bright sunshine and the landscape of Achilles.

This view, articulated by Boris Johnson in 1986 when he was studying classics at Oxford, is

not shared by Rishi Sunak. On Monday, the Prime Minister calls a diplomatic spat after he called

off a meeting of Kiriakas, Mr. Tautakus, his Greek counterpart, hours before it was scheduled to take

place. The reason? Mr. Tachas gave an interview to the BBC in which

he said that Elgin Marvels must be returned to Greece. The current situation he added of having

some artefacts in London and the rest in Athens was akin to cutting the Mona Lisa in half.

Although he was stating the long-held position of the Greek government, such comments, number 10

claims, broke an agreement

between the two countries not to use a visit as a public campaign for returning the antiquities.

AIDS were anxious that the meeting did not turn into repeat of Johnson's 2021 power with the Greek

Prime Minister when all other topics during the visit were overshadowed by briefings about the Elgin Marbles.

Sunak wanted to focus on boats and Gaza, but his zero-tolerance approach towards the mention of

the Marbles meant that nothing was discussed at all. He has a visceral reaction to people taking

the piss out of Britain, explains an ally of the Prime Minister. The Greek Prime Minister refused a back

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