I wrote this piece a while ago after the University of Cape Town bowed to student protests and removed a prominent memorial to arch British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. South African campaigners have targeted other statues too, vandalising one of Queen Victoria in Port Elizabeth. “Rhodes rage” has even spread to this country: students have been demonstrating outside Oriel College, Oxford, demanding that its limestone Rhodes, sitting in a niche overlooking the high street, be toppled."