I awoke this morning with one thought running through my head. It was that Britain must return the Elgin Marbles Parthenon Frieze to Greece. It is the grown-up, sensible, kind generous and noble thing to do. Its simply not British to keep them any longer.

There is certainly no archaeological justification for not returning the freezes to the Parthenon. They belong on the acropolis in Athens just as much as Stonehenge belongs on Salisbury Plain.

Arguments about who will damage them the most are distractions from the real issue which is that it is part of a curator's job to keep his or her collection intact above all else. Therefore the British Museum team are not the people to make the decision. In advance of the 2012 Olympics the government must act to ensure the stones are returned. That was my thought this morning when I woke up.