A new feminist statue is a great idea. Shame they picked the wrong feminist

Although it is right to commemorate outside Parliament the fight for women’s votes, the choice of person is an act of historical airbrushingThere are rather too many statues in Britain, and for the most part they honour individuals more than the movements and values they were meant to represent. They can sentimentalise the past by setting it in stone or bronze. As a biographer, I prefer to rake over the past so that we might learn from it – and be better equipped to deal with th