I don't either, particularly something like the Cenotaph, but I do think we're pretty complacent about the state of racism in this country, and about our past. The people who deface monuments should face the law for their actions, but it also needs to start more active debate about monuments and the people they commemorate, in the same way it did with confederate monuments in the US.

Statues of slave traders are not on, in the twenty first century we shouldn't be glorifying slavers just because when they died they gave their blood money for civic deeds so they'd be remembered in a better light. Put the statues in a museum with full context of their history, bad and good. Churchill is complex, he did tremendous good for the country but I know that he was also responsible for some pretty terrible things and had offensive views on many things, like using chemical weapons against "uncultured" people. But we don't like complex, we want simplicity - this person is good, that person is bad. History isn't like that.