As a historian I am very uncomfortable with the erasure of history and a certain liberal intellectual pretence that certain things didn't happen. Would the college return the money, I wonder and who would they return it to?

The post Soviet world got very busy taking down statues.

I lived for years with a huge equestrian one of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, whom I utterly loathe as a historic figure, but that statue is part of me and part of the town where he sits on 'is 'orse wiv 'is 'at on 'is 'ead, looking totally morally superior.