{"id":2201580,"date":"2024-03-18T22:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/london-museum-showcases-contemporary-villains-hitler-bin-laden-and-margaret-thatcher\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:59:06","slug":"london-museum-showcases-contemporary-villains-hitler-bin-laden-and-margaret-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/london-museum-showcases-contemporary-villains-hitler-bin-laden-and-margaret-thatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"London Exhibit Spotlights Modern Villains: From Hitler and Bin Laden to Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flondon-museum-showcases-contemporary-villains-hitler-bin-laden-and-margaret-thatcher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2201580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The V&#038;A Incident:\u2063 Thatcher&#8217;s Controversial\u2064 Inclusion\u200b Amongst Notorious Figures<\/h2>\n<p>This past weekend, the prestigious Victoria &#038; \u2063Albert Museum in London ignited quite the controversy. Reports emerged that an \u2064exhibit about the\u2063 evolution of \u2063British humor unexpectedly cast former Prime Minister\u2063 Margaret Thatcher in the \u2063same shadow as history&#8217;s infamous\u2063 figures, Osama bin \u2063Laden and Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Intended to showcase \u2064the changes in British comedic tastes, the museum included \u200ba\u2062 selection\u200c of Victorian &#8220;Punch &#038; \u200bJudy&#8221; \u200dpuppets. The caption that \u2064caught everyone&#8217;s eye read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As times changed, so did the villain of this beloved seaside puppet show. The \u200dDevil \u200cgave way to disliked public figures, redefining contemporary\u2063 villains to include\u200d the likes \u2063of Adolf Hitler,\u2063 Margaret Thatcher, and Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reactions were swift and critical, with many debating the appropriateness of Thatcher&#8217;s alignment with two widely recognized symbols of evil. Thatcher, after all, stands as Britain&#8217;s first female \u2064prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Nile Gardiner, \u2062a former \u200baide to Thatcher, didn&#8217;t mince words when \u2063he suggested financial repercussions for the \u200dV&#038;A, decrying the political tenor of the exhibition:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Former Thatcher aide, Nile Gardiner, declares &#8220;The V&#038;A&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-joe-biden-not-tommy-tuberville-who-brought-the-culture-war-to-the-military\/\" title=\"Joe Biden, not Tommy Tuberville, initiated the military 'culture war'.\">public\u200d funding<\/a> should be revoked for its\u2062 political antics.&#8221; This came in response to the museum listing Thatcher as\u2063 a &#8216;contemporary villain&#8217; with Hitler \u200cand Bin Laden. pic.twitter.com\/ZEXjmguHIv<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GB News (@GBNEWS) March 18, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Equally\u2063 vocal was Deputy leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib, who insisted that\u200c regardless of one&#8217;s stance on Thatcher&#8217;s politics, her inclusion in such \u2062a list was a historical \u200cmisstep:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>&#8220;Whoever made this decision should be sacked,&#8221; states Reform UK&#8217;s Deputy leader, \u200dBen Habib, after\u2064 the V&#038;A\u200c accused Thatcher \u200bof villainy alongside\u200d Hitler and\u200c Bin Laden. pic.twitter.com\/yjsshZVRLR<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GB News (@GBNEWS) March 18, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Camilla Tominey, Associate Editor of The Telegraph, echoed the \u2062sentiment:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>\ud83d\udd8a &#8220;Why does the V&#038;A equate Margaret Thatcher with \u2062villains like Hitler?&#8221; It is outrageously offensive to lump Britain&#8217;s\u2063 first female Prime Minister with a genocidal tyrant and a terrorist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read Tominey&#8217;s\u200b full column <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CamillaTominey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CamillaTominey<\/a> below \u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Telegraph (@Telegraph) \u2063March 16, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sir Connor Burns<\/strong>, a former Conservative MP, lashed \u2064out against the caption writer and the museum&#8217;s decision, arguing that\u200d such attitudes are a \u200creflection of \u2062misplaced &#8216;woke&#8217;\u200c culture within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-new-legal-team-for-impeachment-defense-after-previous-team-collapsed\/\" title=\"Trump Announces New Legal Team For Impeachment Defense After Previous Team Collapsed\">public institutions<\/a>, and called for a stern \u200breminder for them to be more historically acute:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This association is nothing short\u200c of woke absurdity and \u2064those responsible \u200dought to be held accountable. An understanding of \u2063history is evidently missing,&#8221;<\/em> argued Sir Connor Burns.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13207861\/Anger-museum-lists-Margaret-Thatcher-Punch-Judy-villain-alongside-Hitler-Bin-Laden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent Daily Mail article<\/a> highlighted the trouble this has stirred for the V&#038;A, especially when considering its significant\u2063 government funding, raising stakes \u2063in the \u2064debate \u200cover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-fight-bidens-overseas-abortion-order\/\" title=\"Republicans Fight Biden\u2019s Overseas Abortion Order\">public money<\/a> and political expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum faces backlash for featuring Margaret Thatcher with bin Laden and Hitler in a &#8220;contemporary villains&#8221; segment of their British humor exhibit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2201581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-3162990.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-3162990.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}