It was really frisky of Brian McKenna to resurrect the cry, last heard a half century or so ago, for the removal from the facade of the Courthouse of the Lion & Unicorn (NS, 20 October).
Brian is not of course alone in wishing to remove or destroy historical symbols and artefacts.
And, as readers will know, he finds himself in illustrious company. These iconoclasts include: the Taliban’s destruction of the Afghanistan Buddha carvings; the razing by IS of the Temple of Baal at Palmyra; the Khmer Rouge’s devastating attack on Cambodia’s …