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It’s been a time to be respectful, but enough is enough. We need to return to our sensesThese have been heady days. On one of them – Wednesday – I cycled through Hyde Park, as far as the Royal Artillery and Bomber Command memorials. At the former, a couple of fellows were being moved on by police, rightly, for selling flowers. The latter was made even lovelier than usual by… all the flowers laid there.Dense with other memorials and monuments, here London declares itself as an all-out imperial city, centre of a once vast empire, the maintenance of which meant there was always a war – a rebellion needing suppression – going on somewhere or other.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...