Our capacity to foot trip our way forward never ceases to amaze me. 

The world has had an abysmal week, in the middle of a pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen. We still have the capacity to find other things in which to make a mess of our lives and futures.

Somehow the death of a black man in Minneapolis ended up seeing a statue toppled in Bristol, which then was tied to a call to stop funding police, in fact to have no police at all. That was closely followed by lots of other statues being targeted, so they could be banned, chopped, or melted down. That dovetailed into campaigns to have plaques and street names reassessed, reassessed by whom was never quite dealt with.

Detail is never addressed in these scenarios. Mad symbolism isn't about answers, it's about noise, carnage, and destruction.

By the end of the week Gone with the Wind was off air, along with Little Britain and Cops. From Floyd, to Coulston, to Lou and Andy, gone. Banned. Put in the bin of history because history now clearly is only to be seen through a lenses prescribed by wokest of woke.

In that is the rub, most of us see this for what it is. The only difference these days is the nutters are given licence. Leadership has vanished, and in an attempt to try and avoid upsetting anyone, anything goes. An entire world can be in lockdown trying to save lives unless there's a cause the handwringer decides is worth putting that at risk for.

Because there is no leadership, no one says enough. Never seeing Rhett and Scarlett again isn't going to save the life, or treatment, of a black man on the streets of America. We all know it, but but that’s not what the wreckers are after.

The wreckers never have answers. They're not bright enough to get that far into the problem. We all accept there is a problem, we know there is a problem because the George Floyd story sadly isn't the first, or anywhere close to it.

The same way Colston wasn’t the only bloke who sold people for money.

But that’s how societies change, and that’s why Colston is a relic. That's why Rhett and Scarlett had servants. It was what they did at the time, and that time is not now, because we learned from it. You don’t learn by not seeing and pretending it never happened.

• London may remove statues as Floyd's death sparks change

Yes, the time is now to stop bad cops kneeling on necks, but that’s not archived by banning Fat Pat or Marjorie Dawes. It's not achieved by removing Rhodes ,or de-funding police forces.

Here's the irony, unless you have leadership and authority you are left defenceless and open to the weakest link. And, my god, did this week feel like the weakest link had free run of the place.