The country’s most well-known public space should not be sporting statues of warmongering,imperialist and dead Tory politiciansBeing a cheerful and glass-half-full sort of chiel, I always find myself looking at statues and graveyards whenever work or pleasure takes me to somewhere new. Sometimes, and you can catch a sense of a place just by walking among its dead or inspecting the virtues of a man (it’s always a man) which caused his fellow townsfolk to erect something in his honour.
If my city of Glasgow were to be judged by a cursory look at its stone heroes,only one conclusion could be reached: that the city has an obsession with warmongering, imperialist and dead Tory politicians and has an odd fixation with the lineage of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It must also be an equestrian paradise. There are so many statues of dreadful worn reactionaries on nags that you wonder why the city doesn’t gain a horse peering out of its coat of arms and a Latin/Glaswegian motto such as Neigham Botherum.
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Source: theguardian.com