British Catholics may feel a certain complacency as the righteous anger of protesters turns on the image of one formerly eminent personage after another associated with slavery and colonialism … Rhodes, it seems, must fall, and Woodrow Wilson – formerly known as the good guy at the Versailles conference – is now reduced to the man who kept black men out of Princeton, and Clive of India, whose sins are manifest, may be removed from central London altogether. The statue-humiliation that really infuriated me was the defacement of the statue of Lord Holland, an abolitionist who owned slaves through his wife and whose dinner table was where Sydney Smith and Lord Macaulay flourished. I take a walk quite often in Holland Park; had I been around when protesters daubed his statue with red paint I would have cheerfully interposed my person. But then, I think most Catholics don’t care for iconoclasm.