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Why I fear that a brilliant statue may be removed; and why the early Brown months are far worse than Blair's
Jump to full article: Times Of London (uk), 2007-12-06
Author: Matthew Parris
Intro: Dismayed Times readers, suspecting the PC-motivated removal of the cigarette from the bronze sculpture of Oscar Wilde near Charing Cross in London -- A Conversation with Oscar Wilde -- wrote to our letters page. On Monday a Westminster councillor replied that, however frequently replaced, the cigarette kept being stolen by vandals; and the council could not agree to a request from the sculptor, Maggi Hambling, for CCTV to protect it.
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