The City View: We cannot hide from our history, we can only learn from it

In this episode, City A.M. Editor Christian May gives a personal view on the debate around statues and monuments to controversial historical figures.  "They should, by and large, be left where they are because, by the passage of time, they take on new meaning - they cease to be monuments to a single life and become instead monuments to uncomfortable truths, monuments to ideas, to complexity and yes, monuments to wrongdoing or shameful acts. They should be understood, they should be talked about more and, where democratic force compels it, recontextualised, even, on occasion, repositioned. But we cannot run or hide from our history, we can only learn from it and add to it so that future generations understand our response to the past as well as our commitment to the future." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The City View is a new podcast from City A.M. - London's daily business and finance newspaper. City A.M. was launched 15 years ago under the strapline "business with personality" - and The City View podcast follows the same philosophy. Every day, City A.M. Editor Andy Silvester will open the podcast with a quick look at the headlines from the worlds of business, finance, economics and politics, before introducing his guest of the day. Guests will be industry leaders, economists, pundits, investors, journalists, politicians and senior figures from the City of London. Expect insight and analysis mixed with good conversation, humour and expertise as Andy and his guests attempt to make sense of the world in extraordinary times.