So many causes, so many heroes – why defame them with a statue?

Monuments used to be the fetish of backward conservatives – now the left is at it too. We can admire the likes of Mary Seacole and Mary Wollstonecraft, but statues are a kitsch, ineffective way to remember them in the 21st centuryIt is the good cause that all politicians back: George Osborne recently allotted £240,000 from banking fines to pay for a statue of Mary Seacole next to the Thames. Campaigners announced Seacole will be unveiled as soon as June. The rival candidates for Lond