Relics

George Osborne is the new chairman of the Board of Trustees at the British Museum. 

In their last set of minutes, from December, Trustee Minouche Shafik reported on the search for a new chair. She's formally known as Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik, of Camden in the London Borough of Camden and of Alexandria in the Arab Republic of Egypt, introduced into the Lords in October 2020. 

In March 2014, Chancellor George Osborne announced the appointment of Dr Nemat Shafik as the Bank of England's new deputy governor for markets and banking, after widespread criticism for his failure to appoint any women to the Bank's nine man Monetary Policy Committee.

Interviews for the Museum gig were scheduled for 1st March, to be conducted by outgoing chair, Sir Richard Lambert and Lord Chartres, who, as Bishop of London, moved George Osborne to tears with his sermon at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.   Mr Osborne moved the Bishop to anger when, in his omnishambles budget of 2012, he imposed VAT on alterations to listed buildings, like churches.