The Marbles
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| Origin | London |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Members | Graham Bonnet |
| Trevor Gordon | |
| Albums | The Marbles |
| Genres | Psychedelic Pop |
| Baroque Pop | |
| Soft Rock | |
| Associated acts | Graham Bonnet |
| Trevor Gordon | |
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| ID | 1192825 |
About The Marbles
The Marbles were an English rock duo that consisted of Graham Bonnet and Trevor Gordon, who operated between 1968 and 1969. Their only well-known singles were "Only One Woman" and "The Walls Fell Down". They also became associated with the Bee Gees members Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb at that time.
King's tie resembles Greek flag after Elgin Marbles row
... Former Chancellor George Osborne, who chairs the British Museum, where The Marbles are currently housed, described Mr Sunak s actions as a " hissy fit"...
Chris Mason: Prime Minister's Questions is a brutal spectacle
... So, bemusement about The Marbles...
PMQs: Rishi Sunak accuses Greek PM of grandstanding over Elgin Marbles
... " Earlier on Wednesday, Greece s foreign minister had said he hoped the two countries needed to work together to find a solution to return The Marbles to Greece...
How the Elgin Marbles scream injustice for most Greeks
... On the central issue of returning The Marbles, he said every citizen - irrespective of political allegiances - was united that they should be returned...
Greeks broke promise not to raise Parthenon Sculptures, No 10 says
... Mr Sunak is keen to be seen as a defender of The Marbles place in London...
Sunak cancels Greek PM meeting in Elgin Marbles row
... The cancellation came days after Mr Mitsotakis told the BBC s Laura Kuenssberg that The Marbles should be returned...
Vatican returns Parthenon sculptures to Greece
... As The Marbles were returned, dignitaries exchanged hand shakes and smiled in front of the cameras, including the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Ieronymous...
Elgin Marbles: New body aims to return sculptures to Greece
... Now an advisory body plans to campaign for a " win-win" deal as a poll shared exclusively with the BBC appears to show the majority of British people support sending The Marbles home...
Chris Mason: Prime Minister's Questions is a brutal spectacle
By Chris MasonPolitical editor
When you read the memoirs of former Prime Ministers , they all tend to agree on one thing: PMQs is a bit of A Nightmare .
The Thing is, that is The Point of it.
The brutality of accountability in a democracy.
This Week , on what I'm going to call the brutal-o-meter, really was quite something for Rishi Sunak .
Much of Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning is ringfenced in the Prime Minister 's diary for mugging up for PMQs.
Stats and info is dredged from every corner of Whitehall to attempt to provide the PM with the ballast to take on the incoming from all angles.
But events can conspire and coalesce to mean that even The Most well-stocked file of info and intel at the Prime Minister 's fingertips will only get them So Far .
Today was one of Those Days for Mr Sunak.
" The only deliverable - which We Are delivering at pace - is losing, " one former minister confided to me afterwards.
The gloom has got gloomier for many Conservative MPs.
Marbles and migration were the backdrop For Today 's exchanges - But beyond that there is deep concern from Tory MPs at what they see as an absence of strategy from No10.
And there is widespread bafflement among Conservatives about the Prime Minister 's decision to pick a public fight with Greece over the Elgin Marbles.
" It wasn't my favourite PMQs, " a cabinet minister tells me, with a healthy dash of understatement.
" Why on earth are we still banging on about bloody marbles? " says another senior Tory, who argues The Party needs to be focusing on Labour's spending plans, not a 200-year-old disagreement with Athens.
" He is lousy at Foreign Affairs and would not have known the impact of such a snub, " a former cabinet minister tells me. " Every meeting we have with The Greeks involves us taking the same lines. And they also have theirs, " the MP adds - emphasising how long the UK and Greece have disagreed about the sculptures.
So, bemusement about The Marbles .
And deep anger about migration.
Rishi Sunak leads a party transparently, publicly, obviously jittery about immigration.
Little Wonder : a party that promised to reduce net migration has.
" There is only one party that has lost control of the borders, " Keir Starmer was able to crow, to obvious discomfort for Tory MPs.
One Conservative on The Right of The Party said as they left The Chamber : " I could barely believe what I was hearing. Keir Starmer was outflanking us to The Right on immigration. And to be fair to him he absolutely nailed it. It just shows what a mess we're in. "
And talking of Sir Keir, it felt like he was enjoying trying to play The Role of a Prime Minister in waiting. He asked questions about migration, laced with observations about meeting The Greek Prime Minister .
For he had kept his meeting, as Rishi Sunak ditched his own.
And there were gags too from the Labour Leader - prompting one reporter to ask his team afterwards if he had a new joke writer.
" No, we just have Very Rich material at The Moment , " his spokesman replied dryly.
Rishi Sunak won't want many more Wednesday lunchtimes like this one.
But unless his political prospects improve and improve quickly, there are likely to be more to come.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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