What Bristol should erect in place of the toppled Colston statue

Instead of complaining about ‘vandalism’ and ‘mob rule’, the powers that be should replace the statue with a bold artwork that shows the hell of life aboard a slave ship

You might think, given some of the responses, that the statue of slaver Edward Colston was one our best-loved national treasures. Priti Patel, the home secretary, called its toppling and dumping in Bristol harbour by Black Lives Matter protesters “utterly disgraceful” and “sheer vandalism”. The policing minister Kit Malthouse chipped in that it was “mob rule”. 

Related: BLM protesters topple statue of Bristol slave trader Edward Colston

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