If I might just be indulged for one more minute, here's the estimable John Crace in the Guardian:

"And yet you couldn’t miss the faint whiff of hypocrisy on both sides of the house. Almost all those who were appalled by Edward Colston being dumped in the river had cheered when the statue of Saddam Hussein had been torn down."

John did miss a trick, of course, by forgetting to put the word "appalled" in speech marks...