Anarchy in the Ashmolean?

Should punk memorabilia be preserved and treasured, or destroyed in line with the ethos of the genre?

After a lengthy campaign, the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport has awarded a townhouse on London's Denmark Street grade 2 listed status because Johnny Rotten scrawled graffiti on it during the early days of punk.

At the same time Joe Corre, the son of the Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and designer Vivienne Westwood, says he is going to burn five million pounds worth of punk memorabilia.

John Robb is bassist and vocalist in influential post punk band The Membranes.

(Image: Punk protestors. Credit: PA)