No Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen Cancelled in University ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ Drive
Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.

Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.
British school kids should be taught the benefits of the British Empire, the UK’s Iraqi-born Education Minister has argued.
Whoopi Goldberg, has called for the royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Prince William and his wife Kate have been ‘cancelled’ by Belizean protestors who accused the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge of continuing Britain’s “colonial legacy”.
Schoolchildren need to be afforded the ability to make up their own minds on political matters, Education Secretary Nadhim Zawahi said.
Workers have removed the iconic Theodore Roosevelt statue that had stood in front of Manhattan’s Museum of Natural History since 1940.
An unspecified array of anti-government protesters chanted “let it burn!” as the front door of Australia’s Old Parliament House was set aflame on Thursday, reportedly confronting authorities trying to extinguish it.
Clothing company Levi Strauss is offering employees the opportunity to engage in a “fireside chat and Q&A” with a “racial trauma specialist” following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on November 19.
Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.
The National Trust has complained about a member-led backlash against the far-left positions being espoused by the British heritage charity.
A British university has told students to refrain from using terms such as “founding fathers”, “manmade”, “masterful”, and other words deemed to be sexist or racist.
A Black Lives Matter-inspired review has found that the use of the Welsh language is linked to “white supremacist ideology”.
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.
Referring to food as “exotic” creates distance between individuals and groups and “reinforces xenophobia and racism,” according to a recent Washington Post article.
A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.
African artists and scientists will be invited to help “contextualise” the statue which is presently being restored in Hamburg.
Students at Oxford University have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II because the print represented the UK’s “colonial history”.
An English church will create an “educational area” for the former slave trader who became a clergyman and abolitionist, and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”, after the Church of England had ordered a Black Lives Matter-style review of all of its memorials for “contested heritage”.
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.
BERLIN (AP) – Germany said Monday it is close to an agreement with Namibia on the killings of tens of thousands of people when Germany was the southern African country’s colonial ruler over a century ago.
Britain’s inaugural professor of ‘Black Studies’ has branded the United States of America a “racist project from its very beginnings”, akin to “Europe on steroids”.
Germany is returning hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes that were mostly looted from West Africa by a British expedition.
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.
The United Nations has slammed a black-led report on British race relations which found that “institutional” or “systemic” racism does not in fact exist, claiming it normalised “white supremacy”.
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.
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.
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”.
The Guardian has amended an article decrying the “phallic” necktie as a symbol of “white male power” to correct an erroneous assertion that it is based on the codpiece.
Historic England has compiled a Black Lives Matter style ‘audit’ of villages with connections to the “transatlantic slavery economy”.
The University of Leicester has seen academics resign or cut ties after it removed studies in Medieval English in favour of a “decolonised curriculum”.
“Black Studies” professor Kehinde Andrews of Birmingham City University has denounced the Enlightenment as “little more than White identity politics” and “racist knowledge”.
The Black Lives Matter-inspired ‘Colonial Countryside’ project from the National Trust, which published a shame list of heritage properties with supposed links to colonialism, received some £160,000 in taxpayer funding and lottery money.
Leftists want to remove a statue of former CA Mayor Thomas Fallon for planting an American flag in the soil during the Mexican-American War.
The British pastime of gardening is rooted in “racial injustice”, said the Professor of Post-Colonial Literature at Leicester University.
The National Trust — our biggest conservation charity — invited groups of schoolchildren to lecture staff on the evils of colonialism.
A picture in the Queen’s collection celebrating the Battle of Rorke’s Drift — one of the proudest moments in British military history — has been given a trigger warning following a Black Lives Matter style review.
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 Antifa group in Portland, Oregon, called for a Thanksgiving Eve attack on “symbols and structures of colonialism and capitalism.” The incited direct action led to the destruction and vandalism of a veterans’ war memorial and downtown businesses.
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”.