Why does the BBC keep creating these political monsters? | Catherine Bennett

After Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, the broadcaster is now giving Jacob Rees-Mogg the oxygen of publicityThere’s nothing wrong with holding up bits of paper: Gillian Wearing’s design for a new statue of Millicent Fawcett shows the suffragist with a placard, maybe to placate people who’d wanted the livelier Pankhurst. For living people, however, in the age of Photoshop, the gesture has its risks, being an invitation for online detractors to write satirical things on the piece