"Who controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past" - George Orwell, "1984"

If I were a Jamaican walking the streets of Bristol I think I would feel a secret sense of pleasure at seeing the philanthropist Edward Colston's statue. Knowing that the slave trader was long gone while I was walking where he had once walked.... The tail of agitators wags the dog of British culture, history and tradition..... It's daft a country apologising for its past. But if Britain should apologise it should apologise for declaring war on Germanin 1914 and 1939, and for bombinhg German cities.