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I may misremember, but I think this is the first instance of iconoclasm (as opposed to just property damage) that I've seen in protests since ... probably since the green Mohican on Churchill, although that wasn't really iconoclasm.
As a protest gesture, it's excellent. Having said that, I always prefer it when things like this are done officially, but I don't know what the institutional blockages were in this case. It might still have taken years had they gone down that route. You just don't know if there will be some kind of attempt to set the statue (which was evidently damaged) up again. I hope not.
Priti Patel pulsing fully in sync with the zeitgeist, as ever.
However, the home secretary, Priti Patel, urged the police to take action. She told Sky News: “I think that is utterly disgraceful and that speaks to the acts of public disorder that have actually now become a distraction from the cause in which people are protesting about.”
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Splashity bye to the statue of E Colston in Bristol, now Bristol Harbour.