End of the Voyage: A Reimagining of British Identity

Charles Gorst
3 min readJun 11, 2020
The second death of Edward Colston, Bristol (June 8th, 2020)

“…a reimagining of British identity stands at the end of the corridor”

Colston and his like have come to the end of their voyage. This act of destruction is not simply one of violent negation, but a positing, a proposition; these statues now say more in death than they ever did in life. This moment has instead erected a new monument in the public imagination for years to…

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Charles Gorst

I’m a philosophy graduate providing analysis on politics, philosophy, culture, and the arts.