Earlier this year, Xydakis roundly condemned the British Museum's decision rejecting a Unesco offer to help resolve the dispute more than 200 years after the sculptures were controversially removed from Athens' greatest temple, the Parthenon, by the seventh Earl of Elgin during his tenure as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Boris Johnson, the London mayor, got into hot water last week when he praised the value of greed as a spur to progress and controversially suggested some people struggle to get on in life because of their low IQs.
He said his experience of conflicts and meeting war correspondents "leads me to suggest, controversially, that it is just a little bit possible that they are not all entirely saintly at every minute of the day.
Periscope's launch comes shortly after Twitter controversially blocked Meerkat from accessing its social graph – the means by which the app was helping people find others to watch based on who they were following on Twitter.
More controversially the Queen's Police Medal goes to assistant commissioner Cressida Dick, who runs Scotland Yard's specialist crime wing, but was in charge of the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station in 2005.
Both promised to do their best to match the intensity and drama of the gruelling 1984 encounter that was controversially called to a halt without a clear winner after five months of play.
Call me crazy!" There was still time for Puskas to have a goal controversially ruled out for offside and for Czibor to be denied brilliantly by Turek.
Google's Larry Page is in the top spot again after a year away, and – more controversially – Kim Kardashian is at number 100.
Both were divisive: Thatcher with her Reaganite economics, Blair most controversially because of his support for George W Bush in 2003's invasion of Iraq.
But the Tasmanian government is – controversially – attempting to change this by opening up the forests, lakes and rivers of the state to "sensitive" tourism.
So a nervous coalition government has rushed out measures making new arrivals wait longer before they can claim benefits – and, more controversially, is calling for a wider debate on the principle of free movement within the European Union and perhaps even an EU migration cap.
