Mike Baird's sister Julia, who has written a marvellous biography of Queen Victoria, and whom I greatly admire for a number of reasons, takes the opposite view of the Statue Wars.
She finds it an enriching experience to see these old statues being toppled by the mob. I wonder Julia, if you don't see that without the preservation of the statues of the ancients with their attached reliefs, we would have less understanding of their world.
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