Knives Into Bombers: How a Surrendered-Blade Lancaster Sculpture Became the World’s Most Ironic War Memorial
The steel carcass of a Lancaster bomber has landed again—this time with no crew, no payload, and no chance of mid-air catastrophe beyond the existential dread already baked into the 21st century. Unveiled last week outside the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincolnshire, the seven-metre sculpture is fashioned from 100,000 knives surrendered in UK amnesty…