The so-called impartiality of a liberal.

"Churchill held opinions that would disbar him from political office today - despicable yes, but surely massively outweighed by the scale of his accomplishments."

Seeing the dismantling of the empire against his will, killing of the Greek resistance, advocating the use of poison gas against recalcitrant tribes, praising Mussolini for being the greatest legislator in Europe, his racism, etc were just opinions and very small things compared to his "accomplishments".

"If we were to denude Britain of all the statues of dead politicians and soldiers who held a few views we now find problematic, the country would be littered with unoccupied plinths."

Does that mean there is a lack of people who could have statues, people who were progressives? There are only representative of a bloody and colonial past. "Pity the country that needs heroes."

Statues like those of Churchill, Rhodes and Havelock celebrate the British Empire and having the faces of those people in public places or on bank notes means glorifying that past; it means being proud of it.

No to statues whether of Lenin or Churchil or Jefferson. Pull all of them down.