If it was actually an appealing statue then people could live with it, but this is a monstrosity.
On Thursday morning, a five-metre tall overweight black woman in a tight blue dress and matching heels was unveiled on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth and described to the public as a contemporary “everywoman.”
City Hall has called Lady in Blue a symbol of ‘confidence and purpose’. CNN framed the same object as a victory because it is “not another White man.” Ordinary Londoners looking at the thing itself reached a simpler verdict: identity politics on a plinth.