A city council in the UK is set to remove the statue of a British war hero after a Black Lives Matter inspired review determined that he represent colonialism and does not represent women and so-called ‘gender non-binary’ people. Following
Black Lives Matter disorder spread across the Atlantic with remarkable speed in 2020 after the death of George Floyd in the United States, with statues torn down or vandalised across the country and London repeatedly plunged into violent disorder, despite lockdowns.
The police chief who stood back and did nothing as Black Lives Matter activists ripped down a historic statue in Bristol, England, during lockdown has received a medal in the New Year Honours.
The director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has been fired after signalling her approval when an “anti-colonial” art collective destroyed a bust of the founder of the academy, King Frederick V.
An outright majority of Britons believe the Black Lives Matter movement has increased racial tensions, along with a 44 per cent of people from ethnic minorities.
Vandals who defaced a statue of British war hero Sir Henry Havelock with the words “racist” and “parasite” have been let off with a caution and a £450 charge towards cleaning costs.
A memorial commemorating a Scottish regiment which rescued a besieged city from Indian rebels will be changed after a single person complained it “pandered to imperialism”.
Artist Maggi Hambling has defended a modernist statue to feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) derided by conservatives, traditionalists, and committed feminists alike.
Students at Brown University have started a campaign that calls for the removal of campus statues of Roman emperors Caesar Augustus and Marcus Aurelius over concerns that they represent “white supremacy.”
The legacy of Britain’s wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill, is reported to have been under review by the Imperial War Museum, in the latest blow against British history amid the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter unrest.
Idiot of the week — in a crowded field — is Tim Parker. Parker, chairman of Britain’s largest heritage charity the National Trust, has just come out in defence of Black Lives Matter.
Astrophel Sang has been convicted in relation to an attempt to burn the flag of the Cenotaph, Britain’s war memorial, during a Black Lives Matter protest in London in June.
The 207-year-old statue of British hero Admiral Lord Nelson will be removed from National Heroes’ Square in Bridgetown, Barbados.
City workers are trying to repair the damage vandals did to a statue of former Washington Gov. John Harte McGraw that has stood in downtown Seattle for a century.
An official review of statues in Leeds, England, concluded that they “over-celebrated Empire, Christianity and ‘great’ white men” and should be changed through the use of new public-facing plaques putting them a different context.
Around two-and-a-half million coins emblazoned with the words ‘DIVERSITY BUILT BRITAIN’ will be released into circulation on Monday to celebrate the “contribution made by ethnic minority communities to Britain’s history”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to empower a government minister with the ability to veto the removal of Britain’s historical statues in an effort to combat against the BLM inspired iconoclastic movement sweeping through large sections of the political left in the UK.
Rioters toppled statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in Portland and smashed windows at a nearby history museum.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has condemned the “hooliganism and thuggery” of Black Lives Matter supporters who have assaulted police officers and attacked statues and war memorials in recent months.
British naval hero Horatio Nelson — later 1st Viscount Nelson — who defeated the French at the battle of Trafalgar was born on this day in 1758. A brief biography of Lord Nelson from the National Museum of the Royal
The University of Missouri has installed a $20,000 acrylic case to protect Thomas Jefferson’s original headstone from potential vandalism.
The UK’s former equalities chief Trevor Phillips has criticised the “woke ultras” who want to destroy symbols of British history, such as statues and names of buildings, warning that a society that damns its past “promises dark days ahead”.
The embattled BBC has drawn more accusations of political bias after claiming a statue which was violently overthrown and hurled into Bristol harbour was actually “symbolically lowered” into the water by “campaigners”.
The statue to British war-time leader Sir Winston Churchill has been vandalised with graffiti branding him “racist” yet again.
Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, quietly removed statues of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin from campus in July over concerns that they would be vandalized by protesters. The university also feared that having a statue of Thomas Jefferson would become a “target or an embarrassment” for alumni. Statues of Jefferson have recently been targeted by vandals on campuses and in parks around the country.
Black Lives Matter supporters chanting “abolish the police” have torn down a statue of Sir John A MacDonald, the Scotsman who became Canada’s first prime minister, in Montreal.
CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a rare on-air correction Tuesday of an erroneous statement he made the night before, claiming that Donald J. Trump Jr. had defended Confederate statues in his speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC).
CNN’s Jake Tapper falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr. said “keep the Confederate statues up,” but he spoke about the Founders and defending “monuments.”
Jae Ikhera, who repeatedly vandalised a statue of Admiral Lord Nelson in Norfolk, has been allowed to walk out of court with a conditional discharge despite being convicted of two counts of criminal damage.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that we should “live in the present and make the future better.” Maher supported removing Confederate statues, and blasted those who are demanding the removal of statues of people like
