Shackled Art

Woke censorship of Britain's historic statuary has reached dangerous new levels with the addition of a beastly thing called context. A Liverpool art gallery has added some wrought-iron workplace clothing to a display of sculpted portraits of a family of nineteenth-century entrepreneurs, created by the city's leading contemporary sculptor on the eminently entrepreneurial presumption that rich is beautiful. Although the family in question was gracious enough to accept substantial compensation when slavery was abolished across nearly the whole Empire, the unmistakable implication is that plucky little Britons not only abolished slavery but profited from it too: a slander nearly as outrageous as the idea that brave little Britons not only win wars but also start them.