I have attempted here to pull together some of the reporting on the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol yesterday. Above are the Sky News reports, and below are some reports from the BBC.
You can make your own minds up if the Home Secretary was correct to describe this as”utterly disgraceful”, and “vandalism” that “undermines” the anti-racism protests.
There is of course nothing new about statues being controversial, click here for example to see the end of the statue of Lenin in Kiev in 2013, and click here to see the fate of Imperial statues in India. Expect the Cecil Rhodes statue in Oxford to be the focus the present debate in the forthcoming days.
Mr Kydd.
STOP PRESS – an ex-student of mine has sent me these twitter links. Each provides a different angle on the question of statues. I would particularly recommend the first.
For each you obviously need to click show thread.
- Why so many universities have slavers as benefactors
- From Stalin to Jackson
- A German view
- You might also like to click here for a BBC summary of the Churchill debate. Balanced and helpful. Ask a lazy question, and get a lazy answer…
