Viscount Melbourne

1840 days ago

Gladstone toppled so what odds now on the City of Melbourne changing name as slavery supporters are outed and made non-persons?

I predicted earlier today that the purging of statues and street names associated with figures from the past with slaving links, however tenuous, would soon see the great Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone in trouble. It did not take long for bedwetters at Liverpool University to decide that their Gladstone Hall needed renaming.

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