Britain | Iconoclasm past and present
What a previous iconoclastic period reveals about the present one
History suggests the opponents of images will prevail
THEY STRUCK at night, but many people must have seen them. First a group of young men stretched ropes across Cheapside, an east-west thoroughfare in the City of London, to block traffic. Then they attacked one of the largest, most famous images in Britain.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Cancel culture”
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