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That's what I thought too. But, I mean, it wouldn't be the first time she broke the law...
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The full set of photos of the event can be viewed here
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I have things to say in response but this is not the right media for it, so I will leave it here, and just say that Colston has been a unique and special, and repeat that I don't think simply creating "opposing" monuments for balance's sake works (certainly not every time there is controversy)
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I don't think it's workable in practice. Would you have plunked an anti-slavery monument next to Colston? Or one to his victims next to Saville's statue in Glasgow? Just for balance? Doesn't that cheapen the value of the new monument while the other remains to glorify its rejected object?
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The artistic value of a statue is a whole different can of worm, and I think if a controversial statue is deemed to also be art, then removing it from a honorific place in the civic space and moving it to a museum where its political value is denied makes complete sense.
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Here we go: my review of Miss Austen Investigates, by Jessica Bull.
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tl;dr: I won't bother with the other books in the series...
#booksky
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And, of course, quite ironically, it is only now that it has been taken down that the Colston statue has become history...
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Pulled* down
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I totally agree with all your points. It is, I think, also worse emphasising, that in almost all cases, a statue is not history, but, as you say a representation of it. Remove it cannot therefore be erasure. That history still happened.
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Aaand it's back, but only in part of the area normally decorated... v odd
#PrideBuntingWatch
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I'd agree with all that, yes.
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I'm not saying it was a perfect time, but, I think on the whole it was better than it was before and it's been since
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Musk of all trades..
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I have been getting a feeling it's time for me to reread Austen, which I haven't read since my early-ish days as an English speaker. Having now lived 25 years in London, I think I'll get a lot from her work than I did at the time. And it's THE year to do it!
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It was always a question of when, not if that would happen. I'm surprised they lasted this long TBH
#r4today
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I've been interviewed a couple times in my days and the result, without being negative or antagonistic (thankfully), has always been a little off. As you say: not quite recognisable
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The name for such person is "useful idiot"