statues
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
Critic Columnist Suspended
Our fearless woke columnist has been mistaken for an evil right-wing satirist
No change please, we’re British
A new counter-petition campaign is a conservative response to iconoclasm
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye
Losing without a fight
No one will say the truth to the one side that is waging the culture war. The only dog in this battle will win it
History wars
Churchill’s statue was attacked because he symbolises the continuity of the nation
Property is Speech
Tearing down Edward Colston’s statue conceals the past and suppresses the speech of the dead
Culture wars are about our society
The notion of collective racial guilt undermines all institutions