How not to rewrite history: Play on, Vienna

An alarming cultural and political craze in the closing years of this decade has been the enthusiasm for the kind of virtue signalling expressed in demands to sanitise history

An alarming cultural and political craze in the closing years of this decade has been the enthusiasm for the kind of virtue signalling expressed in demands to sanitise history so as not to disturb sensitive students and enrage social justice warriors unable to accept reality.

They call for statues to be pulled down and avenues and buildings to be renamed.

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