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Emmie, more to the point this is, in effect, telling us what to think about. I don’t know why MWG14, who posted first on this thread, has decided to cancel his subscription, but that’s my reason. We all know that every museum stores items away from the public gaze and I accept that, but this smacks of the current fad for removing pictures/statues of men prominent in this country’s Colonial past and of those who are deemed too white and not diverse enough. Students at Manchester recently painted over a wonderful Kipling poem because they felt it “dehumanised people of colour”, and the president of Southampton University Students Union vowed to paint over a memorial dedicated to former students who had given their lives in battle. How crass is that?! Unlike these morons who wouldn’t recognise their good fortune in living in a free society if it jumped up and hit them on the head, I’m not ashamed of our history. I’m a patriot, I like my country and I want its heritage preserved, which is why I subscribe to the National Trust – or did.
Phew! And breathe. ;o)