‘Asset stripping’ of cultural treasure

Charles Davis points at this
Guardian Story on the Commonwealth Institute\’s plans to modernise, that they say will lead to loss of national resource and damage to
multicultural understanding, say critics.

The trustees and governors of the Commonwealth Institute, in Kensington, London, are accused of planning to sell off the organisation\’s prestigious headquarters for millions of pounds
and dump its unique 50-year-old library on a struggling Bristol museum.