Isn’t That Why They Installed the Memorials in the First Place?

London, England, Mayor Ken Livingstone has proposed that the statues memorializing two British generals be moved from Trafalgar Square because few remember who they are. “I imagine that not one person in 10,000 going through Trafalgar Square knows any details about the lives of those two generals,” Livingstone said of the monuments to Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier. “It might be that it is time to look at moving them and having figures on those plinths that ordinary Londoners would know.” (Reuters) ...“Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air / Nelson stylites in Trafalgar Square / Reminds the British what once they were.” —Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), British author, in A Ballad of the Good Lord Nelson.