It's a tough one, is this. There are statues of Churchill everywhere, yet his blunders were responsible for thousands of our military deaths in WW1. A statue of that joke on horseback, General Redvers Buller, has stood for over a hundred years just up from where my father-in-law lived in Exeter. Why, I've supped many a pint in the beer garden of the Bullers Arms in my local village, right under his portrait on the pub sign. I wouldn't exactly say that I'm enamoured of monuments to Victoria, come to think of it, when I consider the squalor and abuse suffered by millions in Northern towns during her reign. And what about all those ugly crucifixes, depicting the brutal murder of a man who may not even have existed? Where do you draw the line? The way I see it is this. It's a free country and I can walk the streets cheerfully ignoring all this stuff, or, alternatively, putting two fingers up to Winston if I feel like it. But is it different when you're forced to be up close and personal with a known charlatan such as Rhodes every time you walk into college, regardless of your colour or creed? I'm not so sure about that. A good solution would be to put the statue somewhere else. In a museum maybe. Museums can be quite good places to keep uncomfortable reminders of a shameful past. Incidentally, I don't feel the same way about statues or other depictions of megalomaniacs who put them up themselves. I'd have no compunction in ripping them down.