2nd February 2013, 01:03 PM
Should 'public' organisations such as these be permitted to sign up as lackeys of what is, after all, a subscription-paying private membership club like IFA? Surely that's a conflict of interest? Curators are supposed to represent the independent public/taxpayer oversight on archaeology, playing to any other tune immediately destroys any credibility in the system (is it even legal?). IFA seems, in all its documentation, to promote the interests of its membership/ROs at the expense of non-members. If such a curatorial organisation (supposedly public servants) declared itself to be officially affiliated to a better known organisation with such aims, e.g. the Masons, there would be public uproar!