22-08-2017 19:32 via theguardian.com

Toppling Nelson risks importing US anger | Letters

Nelson should be commemorated, says Alan Bailey. So should William Cuffay, suggests Keith Flett. Plus Mary Russell on how Dublin’s Nelson’s Pillar was blown up in 1966Afua Hirsch (Why not topple Nelson?, 22 August) has the argument back to front when she says the purpose of statues to “figures like Nelson” is to energise “white supremacist groups”. On the contrary, it is those agitating to remove such statues who are trying to import into the UK the US &l
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