It's not 'censorship' to question the statues in our public spaces | Charlotte Higgins

Minister Robert Jenrick sees ‘woke’ mobs everywhere ripping down Britain’s heritage. It’s sheer fantasy Few things are certain in these precarious times. But one thing has been easy to predict: that the government would continue with its crusade against an imaginary horde of “woke” iconoclasts intent on desecrating, tearing down, cancelling, censoring and otherwise destroying “our shared British history”. Even sooner than I had expected – what with the demands of a real, non-imaginary pandemic – there comes from the pen of the communities secretary, Robert Jenrick, an article in the Sunday Telegraph that is either deliberately misleading, stupid, or both. Charlotte Higgins is the Guardian’s chief culture writer Continue reading...
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