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Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

On this week's episode, I'll be talking about the crisis unfolding inside British museums,

the protests in China, and a handy loophole in the plans to extend London's ultra-low emissions zone. First up, in his cover

piece, Douglas Murray says that museums are turning against their own collections. He joins me

now alongside the historian Professor Robert Toombs.

Douglas, could you tell our listeners a little bit about this culture of self-flagellation

that you write about in your piece? Yes, this is provoked by a visit to a number of British

collections recently, between national collections, which show an extraordinary degree of

what would you describe as other than sort of self-loathing, a desire for self-annihilation,

that instead of defending the collection, the job of the curators is to shut it down.

I give the example of the Pitt Rivers collection in Oxford, which has always been a most curious

collection, but now it's exceptionally curious. It used to be a curiosity of a bygone age, and now it's a

curiosity of the present age. It has special exhibits about beyond the binary. The bookshop sells

A to Z of genders. The display explains how white Europeans are a race

of colonialists and really nothing else, how Europeans have just thieved their way around the

world. And as I say in the piece, this isn't unusual. Go to the Tate Britain, for instance,

which holds some of the

jewels of the British collections, and you'll see that not only has the gallery decided to stand

as judge jury and executioner over Rex Whistler, but also over Stanley Spencer and multiple other

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