MPs today have a chance to give these precious icons the protection they deserve Targeted: the war memorial in Barr Beacon, Birmingham, after parts of the copper roof were stolen last year Photo: Alamy By Clive Aslet 8:34PM GMT 08 Nov 2012 Comments You have to wonder if we haven’t gone soft. In the ancient world, Alcibiades was sentenced to death for defacing the herms. A herm – as it is unnecessary to tell a reader of The Daily Telegraph – was a column with human characteristics: a head burst from the top, feet poked out of the bottom and there was something that protruded in between. You can imagine which bit it was that Alcibiades went for. His act of sacrilege...
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