Not since September 1642, when a mob of Parliamentary soldiers opened fire on the sculpture of the Virgin Mary carved into the side of the University Church, has Oxford been in such a fury over statues. The ‘Rhodes must fall’ campaign that started among radical students in 2016 has now spread to the senior common rooms, particularly the SCR of Worcester College which, astonishingly, has taken over from Balliol and Wadham as the headquarters of the workers’ revolution.
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Adrian Wooldridge is political editor of the Economist and author of the Bagehot column. His book The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World is published by Allen Lane.
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