I was tensely awaiting maybe Nigel Farage to confront the eccentrics who burst into the “patriotic” Churchill-themed Blighty Cafe in the east end of London as a protest against “imperialism and gentrification” (an unbalanced pairing of evils, I’d suggest). The EDL probably don’t know who Rhodes was, but hey). I wanted to see the EDL pitched against the radicals of the Rhodes Must Fall movement (that’s the handful of Oxford undergrads who want to tear down the statue of Cecil that stands, unobtrusively enough, on the edifice of Oriel College, Oxford. Strange to say for such a professional controversialist, and co-star of Sky News’ gobshite fest The Pledge, the trouble with Afua Hirsch’s polemic The Battle for Britain’s Heroes was that there wasn’t that much battling going on.
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