There’s a truly hideous statue in Ilfracombe, Devon that I want to tear down and drag into the sea. ‘Verity’ is a 66-foot high steel and bronze sculpture of a pregnant woman brandishing a sword, with her flesh partially cut away so that you can see the skull beneath the skin of her head and the foetus in her belly. It’s by Damien Hirst and it manages to be crass, woke, nauseating, fatuous, ugly and insulting all at the same time.
Oh, and while we’re about it, let’s pull down the statue of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery too.--
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