You sound like Starmer, Bonzo. Personally, I can't blame people for taking things into their own hands. Had they not torn down that detestable statue it might have stood there for years, for decades or forever. They've been arguing for years in Bristol about rewording the inscription on the plinth and done nothing. There's still impasse over renaming the Colston Hall. There are deluded people arguing that we shouldn't change these things "because you can't erase history." Bunkum. You won't learn much about the history in question by going to a gig at the Colston or walking by that statue. There are people defending him saying what a great bloke he was for founding schools and almshouses. They're not telling you that it was slave money that paid for those things. His slaving company overcrowded their ships with captives who had been branded on the chest with his company's initials and thrown overboard when they died, twenty thousand of them. Huffing and puffing about justifiably angry people throwing his statue into the harbour doesn't sit very well with me. All power to them. Either we quietly drop the "illegal" bit, as the police sensibly appeared to do, or we make the law an ass.

"Dear Brits, over here the only type of people saying all lives matter are the most blatant racists."

Bravo, Donuel.