Heritage

The British Library has added George Orwell, Lord Bryon, Ted Hughes, and others to a list of shame for cultural figures with supposed links to slavery.

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”.

A number of war memorials around the United Kingdom have been vandalised ahead of Armistice Day, when the country marks the end of the First World War. 

Trendy grocery chain Whole Foods received backlash after attempting to ban staff from wearing poppies to remember the war dead in Canada.

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.

Queen Elizabeth II left isolation for the first time since March to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, as Britain attempts to commemorate the fallen despite the coronavirus lockdown.

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 Royal Family and members of Britain’s Armed Forces will be barred from singing the national anthem on Armistice Day, over fears that the patriotic songs will spread the Chinese coronavirus.

The 207-year-old statue of British hero Admiral Lord Nelson will be removed from National Heroes’ Square in Bridgetown, Barbados.

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.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has weighed in on the viral video of a man ripping down the cross on a London church in broad daylight, warning Britain’s Christian culture is “under assault”.

Taxpayers are subsidising heritage assets as the sector struggles to survive without visitor revenue thanks to the govt’s virus shutdown. 

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.

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.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has hailed the BBC’s u-turn on banning the lyrics to “Rule, Britannia!” and “Land of Hope and Glory”, saying that the “woke crowd” that pushed for the words to be censored in the first place were a “vociferous minority”.

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.

The BBC seems to have disastrously misread the public mood when it announced changes to the Last Night of the Proms…

Sir Ed Davey has won the Liberal Democrat race, meaning for the first time in over a century two political parties are led by knights of the realm. 

The taxpayer-funded British Library has been urging which staff to support the Black Lives Matter movement and back petition pushed by Labour’s Diane Abbott. 

The BBC is reportedly considering the idea of scrapping patriotic songs Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory in a push to “decolonise” the broadcast of the Last Night of the Proms in response to the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter movement.

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.

YouGov has found Black Lives Matter stunts such as protesting despite lockdown, removing statues, and taking the knee command little public support. 

Sheffield Cathedral has announced it will close down its current choir to ready itself “for the exciting future of the mixed urban community in which we live and work.”

People in Nuuk, Greenland, have voted overwhelmingly against removing a statue of missionary Hans Egede which was vandalised by activists in June.

The British police force which allowed an illegal Black Lives Matter protest to destroy a statue in Bristol has released more images of people they would “like to speak to” in connection with the incident.

The Conservative government of Boris Johnson has rejected a petition to protect Britain’s statues and monuments, saying they are “satisfied” with the supposed protections already in place.