Very sad to hear that Jeremy Hardy, one of Britain's finest comedians, has died. He was an inspiration to me in my early years on the comedy circuit, and since. A delightful person, and a brilliant, insightful, fearless comic.
To all American Buglers, you have my sincerest sympathies. Unless you are a fan of flesh-crawlingly sinister presidential speeches and full-frontal assaults on democracy, in which case, you're having a lovely time.
1: We've already edited and censored our past. Hence the statues.
2: A bit rich from a man who likes to edit and censor our present.
3: "Pretending to have a different history" is a core British Value. We're one of the best in the world at it. And that is a hotly-contested field.
We cannot now try to edit or censor our past. We cannot pretend to have a different history. The statues in our cities and towns were put up by previous generations. 3/8