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  To chuck in my pennyworth, I didn't find the Eason stuff rambling; but I did find it confused and, rather than 'exceptional', entirely conventional Left. One bit that irked was this:
  
  'Statues are not history... We do not learn history from statues...'
  
  This is nonsense. Of course statues are history. A statue’s an historical artefact; like any historical artefact it’s open to historical interpretation. The very fact that a statue can be at once a target for destruction and an object of veneration demonstrates just how overloaded with historical meaning it is. The idea that we can learn nothing of fascism from the monumental statuary in the Foro Italico, say, is a monumentally ignorant one, especially from someone whose ‘job [is] to study political history’.

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