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

Referring to Indian food as “curry” is a racist relic of British colonialism, according to woke academics and food influencers.

English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia told students in the latest decolonise the curriculum push.

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.

A native totem pole was set on fire on Canada’s Vancouver Island in what is suspected to be retaliation for the destruction of a statue of Captain James Cook.

A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a highly equivocal denunciation of the wave of church arsons and statue smashing sweeping Canada, calling the attacks “unacceptable” but defending the anger fueling them as “fully understandable”.

President Joe Biden apparently breached royal protocol by blabbing some details of a personal conversation he had with the Queen at the G7.

Over 150 Oxford University academics are refusing to teach Oriel College students as a result of the college authorities declining to give into woke demands to hack a historic monument to Cecil Rhodes off its building.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has compared himself and President Joe Biden to wartime leaders Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Students at Oxford University have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II because the print represented the UK’s “colonial history”.

King’s College London (KCL) has apologised to staff for the “harm” caused by a bulletin which included an image of the late Queen’s consort Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, citing his alleged “history of racist and sexist comments”.

The statue of 17th-century Bristol philanthropist Edward Colston, which was torn down from its plinth, vandalised, and thrown into the harbour by an angry mob of Black Lives Matter protesters in June 2020 over his links to slavery, will be put in a museum alongside paraphernalia linked to the Marxist protest movement.

The left-wing city council of Bristol in conjunction with the University of Bristol will embark on a taxpayer-funded, £290,000 “reparative justice project” to atone for the city’s involvement in the historical slave trade centuries ago. Bristol University’s ‘History of Slavery’

The woke chairman of Britain’s National Trust has resigned ahead of moves to oust him at the heritage organisation’s upcoming annual general meeting.

Moving to claw back interest after a resounding rejection by the British public in the last two elections amid a lurch to the woke left, the Labour Party released a series of Black Lives Matter inspired policy proposals on the

Oxford University’s Oriel College has rejected a commission’s recommendation to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and former prime minister of the Cape Colony.

A 900-year-old church in East Yorkshire will have damaged carvings replaced with figures celebrating feminist and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) figures. The woke restoration project of St Mary’s Church in Beverley is being spearheaded by Vicar Reverend Rebecca

Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has received backlash for boasting of its efforts at “decolonising the plays of Shakespeare” via a programme of “Anti-racist Shakespeare webinars”.

Birmingham city council will look to replace “extremely problematic” street names and statues across the city following a Black Lives Matter-inspired review.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has dropped the nickname “Saxons” for one of the top England teams following a Black Lives Matter-inspired diversity review into the sport.

Queen Elizabeth II has set out a British legislative programme including voter ID, Brexit free ports, and a host of climate change regulations at the socially-distanced State Opening of Parliament — her first major public engagement since the death of her husband of over seven decades.

British naturalist Charles Darwin has become the latest historical scientist to run afoul of the “decolonise the curriculum” movement, with Sheffield University reportedly claiming that Darwin’s theory on evolution was used to “justify white male supremacy”.

Local government in Leeds, England, is teaming up with publicly-funded Leeds University to expand a BLM-style statues review with a report titled ‘Decolonising Sculpture for Urban Social Justice’.

The grandfather of modern physics, Sir Isaac Newton, has become the latest target of the woke mob in the push to “decolonise the curriculum”, as Sheffield University is reportedly set to contextualise lessons on Newton with claims about him benefiting from “colonial-era activity”.

Two supposed Benin Bronzes being “returned” to Africa by the woke Archbishop of Canterbury were actually made in the 1980s and have no link to colonialism, it has been admitted.

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has apologised after the Commonwealth War Graves Commission found itself guilty of “pervasive racism” with respect to the way some ethnic minority veterans were commemorated — or not — over 100 years ago.

Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen’s affinity for drinking tea will be examined in a Black Lives Matter-style “historical interrogation” at a museum honouring the famed writer.

The ruling left-separatist party in Scotland has vowed to introduce “anti-racist education” in order to confront the “UK’s colonial history”.

LONDON (AP) – This is the Order of Service for the funeral of Prince Philip on Saturday.

WINDSOR, England (AP) – Prince Philip will be remembered as a man of “courage, fortitude and faith” on Saturday, at a funeral that salutes both his service in the Royal Navy and his support for Queen Elizabeth II over three-quarters of a century.

TATOI, Greece (AP) – Prince Philip’s life spanned a century of European history. His family ties were just as broad, with Britain’s longest-serving consort linked by blood and marriage to most of the continent’s royal houses.

BBC and Channel 5 presenter Jeremy Vine has been panned for asking if it is “a problem” that those attending the Covid-restricted funeral of the Queen’s consort Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, are white.

Primary school children in England have reportedly been asked by the National Trust to write poems “denigrating” the British Empire, as campaigners attempt to convince the heritage charity to abandon its increasingly woke agenda.

A London school where the British flag was pulled down and burned by pupils who say they felt “colonised” is giving in after teachers backed protesting youths. 

The Telegraph reports that University of Oxford academics have complained that “Teaching notation which has not ‘shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ would be a ‘slap in the face’ for some students”, as it has “complicity in white supremacy”.