The toppling of Edward Colston in Bristol (let’s forget the slavery bit) has raised an army of ‘heroic defenders’, says author Joel Golby
Ah yes, statues: the only subject powerful enough to wrestle the news focus away from the pandemic, the oscillating UK infection rates, the Dominic Cummings road trip movie, the global Black Lives Matter movement and the looming prospect of a second coronavirus wave.
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