Making history. "The protesters who brought Colston down and who now have the long-controversial Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford’s Oriel College in their sights are destroyers—but of mythology rather than history." Wrote this for Huffpost https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/statues_uk_5ee33c50c5b609f241c952b7?sl9

"Those who, for instance, defaced a statue of Winston Churchill by spraying “was a racist” on it were demanding that our understanding of historical figures and icons not be selective."

What these young protesters are demanding of all of us today is the courage to see history in all its fullness&, frequently, ugliness.There is nothing brave about living inside comforting mythologies of being a force for nothing but good. That the British Empire was certainly not

"They are asking profoundly important questions: Who is Britain? Whose history has come to represent British history? Why is it only wealthy, white men whose actions often inflicted great suffering? "