Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas - Fringe 2023 Why monuments should lie

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Take one top academic, some dangerous ideas, add one comedian and it’s the force of nature that is the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CODI).

Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison, and now in its eleventh year, CODI is sixty minutes of rapid-fire research from some of the finest minds in the country.

Dr Paul Leworthy (The University of Edinburgh) isn’t having a good day. First he noticed that the city he lives in was full of statues of men most of us would agree shouldn’t be celebrated in public, then he realised he was incapable of saying what he really means and can’t stop speaking in metaphors. But what if these problems are related? And what if everyday metaphors offer the answer for what to do with controversial monuments? The answer might be to make such monuments lie down.