The current iconoclastic spasm over our civic statuary appears to be part of a pattern which requires us to be burdened with the guilt of Scotland’s past misdeeds since many of our countrymen were indeed involved in the slave trade. It’s undeniable that many individual Scots profited from the slave trade, either as plantation owners in America and the West Indies, or as dealers … [Read more...] about Monumental follies 2
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Monumental follies 1
Pygmalion, Don Giovanni’s singing stookie, and Jackie Kay’s ‘mythical stone statue that is turning into a person before my eyes’ in her memoir Red Dust Road excepted, statues are inanimate, can’t engage in political discourse, and make easy targets. Many offend our modern liberal and radical sensibilities. Others are useful virtue-signalling distractions for those who like to … [Read more...] about Monumental follies 1