If you are going to disqualify rich white kids from political activism, that's the Oxford Union ****ed as a nursery for Toryism (and the LDs and Labour - no idea if PC as well or if there aren&#… (View Post)

Anti-slavery was once a salient cause. That didn't disqualify it - and remember, also, that the Colston statue was a problem long, long before BLM became salient. (View Post)

But the statue is in a modern town with lots of descendants of those unfortunates. There's no law that a statue has to remain in situ forever. Nor is there a law that enables the local oligarchy… (View Post)

The interestding point is that the Colston statue actually got a place in the city museum. And much more attention that way than on that rather long traffic island in the covered over part of the for… (View Post)

OT but interesting follow up to an earlier discussiion re apparent fraud by carers: the system is such that it's not easy to be honest and accurate without losing out (and the effective "ta… (View Post)