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Minister says “I will not stand idly by” and wants protesters disrespecting war memorials “in handcuffs” after footage emerged.

Former President Donald Trump correctly predicted years ago that the far-left would eventually go after the Founding Fathers — something that came to fruition Tuesday, as officials in New York City considered a measure which would remove works of art depicting those who owned slaves or benefitted from slavery. That, of course, would include the Father of the Nation, George Washington.

New York City is considering a measure that would essentially remove statues of Founding Fathers such as George Washington.

Parents and students from a Florida charter school have been invited to Florence, Italy to see the Statue of David, after their principle was fired amid complaints of pornographic lessons.

Welsh Government advice says statues of “old white men” such as Trafalgar hero Admiral Nelson may need to be removed or even destroyed to create the “right historical narrative” in an increasingly multicultural society.

Two suspects allegedly defaced a historic Christopher Columbus statue in New York City’s Central Park on February 26, and police are asking the public for help in identifying them, Fox News reported Tuesday.

The statue of Sir Winston Churchill and Britain’s national war memorial were included in a list of “contentious” monuments by Scotland Yard.

Ukraine is erasing the vestiges of Russian influence by pulling down monuments and renaming hundreds of streets to honor its own heroes.

Poland has demolished four so-called ‘Monuments of Gratitude’ to the armies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of an ongoing decommunisation programme.

ROME — A tourist toppled two antique marble busts in the Vatican collection Wednesday before being arrested by the gendarmerie.

The ‘Save Our Statues’ group has launched a “plaque-cheque” campaign to fact-check so-called information boards defaming historic figures depicted in memorials.

The editorial board of the University of Virginia’s newspaper has called to remove references to University founder and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.

Activists need to turn their attention away from attacking old statues and start fighting modern slavery, an ex-police officer has said.

A statue of an African revolutionary is to go on display in London, and followed up by a “trans” monument styled after Aztec skull rack.

Glasgow City Council has been accused of plotting to purge a number of supposedly “controversial” statues from the city’s main square, despite having previously insisted that rumours of such a plan were “nonsense”.

A woke activist involved in the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ statue-toppling campaign is helping write free speech guidelines for the University of Oxford. 

A newly erected statue of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been vandalised again, not even a month after it was first put up.

Activists including a 59-year-old university arts centre director egged a statue of Britain’s first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, as it was installed in her home town of Grantham. 

An ancient Roman bust, last seen in Germany at the close of World War II, was recently discovered in Texas when an art collector purchased the relic at a Goodwill store for just $34.99.

Iman Less, who previously drew criticism for flipping off a national war memorial, has been elected to the Westminster council.

Former Interior Secretary and Navy SEAL veteran Ryan Zinke released an ad Tuesday channeling President Theodore Roosevelt after an 80-year-old statue of the former president was removed from the front steps of the American Museum of Natural History last month.

Edinburgh’s municipal government has been condemned for a slapping a Black Lives Matter-inspired plaque on one of the Scottish capital’s most iconic monuments, accusing the statesman it commemorates of personal responsibility for “more than half a million enslaved Africans cross[ing] the Atlantic.”

An artist erected a statue of basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna at the site of their fatal helicopter crash in Calabasas.

A statue of Theodore Roosevelt was removed overnight from its place in front of the the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Workers have removed the iconic Theodore Roosevelt statue that had stood in front of Manhattan’s Museum of Natural History since 1940. 

Tory grandee and David Cameron’s former right-hand man George Osborne has backed the BLM radicals who destroyed Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol. 

The toppling of a statue during a Black Lives Matter protest last year was an “act of love”, a UK court has been told.

London’s leftist mayor Sadiq Khan is making £25,000 grants available to change street names in a Black Lives Matter-inspired diversity drive. 

Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, has defected from the established Church of England to Roman Catholicism after complaining of the obsession with woke “identity politics” in Anglicanism.

A statue of famed European explorer Christopher Columbus was vandalised on Tuesday in London, led by iconoclast leftist mayor Sadiq Khan.

Statues of Admiral Lord Nelson, Sir Francis Drake, and Thomas Guy are under threat in Sadiq Khan’s London as woke academics and bureaucrats continue the BLM-inspired war on Britain’s built heritage.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of stealing funds raised by a Bristol BLM group after radicals toppled the Colston statue.

A far-leftist has claimed his participation in tearing down a statue of Canada’s first Prime Minister and dared police to arrest him.

Leftist statue smashers in Canada toppled the statue of Sir John A MacDonald and doused Queen Victoria in red paint over the weekend.

A far-left extremist group have desecrated a memorial to soldiers who fought in the First World War in Hamburg, painting over parts of the monument to make it state “Germany must die”.

The London Borough of Hackney has been forced to admit that Toyin Agbetu, who resigned from Sadiq Khan’s statues commission following anti-Semitism allegations and once screamed at the Queen in church, is still part of its own review of memorials.