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The National Maritime Museum, part of the Royal Museums Greenwich Photo: Katie Chan via Wikimedia Commons Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) in London is the latest UK institution embroiled in a so-called “culture war” after the government allegedly blocked a trustee appointment, prompting the museums’ chair of trustees to resign. According to the Financial Times, Sir Charles Dunstone, the billionaire founder of Carphone Warehouse, stepped down from the RMG board earlier this year after Oliver Dowden, the UK culture secretary, refused to renew the term of Aminul Hoque, a Bangladeshi-British lecturer at Goldsmiths college, University of London. Hoque was reportedly rejected because of his focus on “decolonisation”.

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