statues
Self-righteous vandals
Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so…
Made to measure: where did the metre come from?
Made to measure The government started reviewing whether we should stay two metres apart while social distancing or whether one…
Why stop at destroying statues?
The actor John Cleese has been wondering if we should destroy Greek statues because Greeks believed ‘a cultured society was…
Letters: Did Bristol really want to see Colston fall?
Hong Kong’s success Sir: Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson are right to compare the UK’s Covid-19 response with Hong Kong’s…
Is there anywhere visitors will be welcome this summer?
Do stock markets foretell the future while politicians fudge and economists mumble? No: share prices collectively have a life of…
What Britain should learn from Belgium: history can be reappraised
Is it best to erase history, or reappraise history? We haven’t started taking down statues of royalty in Britain yet,…
The war of the statues is a battle for freedom
The war of the statues is no longer a battle over the memory of slavery, or the Confederacy, or the…
Here’s my solution to the problem of what to do with the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College
Lobengula was the second king of the Matabele people in what is now Zimbabwe. He was also the last. Cecil…
A short history of statue-toppling
Sculptural topplings provide an index of changing times, says Martin Gayford
