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...In June 2020, in Bristol, the drowning in effigy of Edward Colston the “philanthropic slave-trader” held the world spellbound. Street names everywhere have had an equally rough time....
...makes a knowing comment on this reliance on caricatures from the outset — “Everyone’s a type,” Rani observes to Christian as she profiles her new companions — gives hope that Merchant and co-creator Elgin James...
...Public art has also become a flashpoint, from statues of Bristol’s Edward Colston and Oxford’s Cecil Rhodes to those of Confederate army leaders in the southern US....
...Its cast of characters, among them deputy consul-general James Phillips and Admiral Harry Rawson, are worthy of the Ealing Studios — pith helmet and all....
...WT: There’s already been a destruction — the toppling of that statue in Bristol [of Edward Colston, a 17th-18th-century merchant involved in the slave trade]....
...But then protesters in Bristol pulled a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston from his perch, and suddenly the time seemed ripe to talk about Oh Happy Day....
...Scottish composer James Dillon has turned them into a contemporary Stabat Mater Dolorosa for 12 voices, 11 musicians and electronics. The London Sinfonietta gives the premiere....
...They include Clifton College, Badminton School, Colston Girls’ School and Bristol Grammar School, a co-ed school founded in the 16th century....
...The decision by St James’ School in the Lincolnshire seaside town to consider academy status underlines a pattern that will give ammunition to critics of the system: every switcher so far has been in a region...
...James Rowlands-Roberts, a recruitment executive, was so impressed with The Cube that he bought two flats in it....
...The Colston Bassett is rather tasty. mudlark@ft.com...
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