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A new San Francisco school board voted to reverse an earlier board decision to remove a George Washington mural because of slavery images.

Thousands of druids, pagans and New Agers greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on the longest day of the northern hemisphere year.

Yellowstone National Park announced on Thursday it will be renaming a peak originally dubbed after a cavalryman, who was instrumental in the park’s establishment, due to his name being “offensive.”

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When D-Day veterans set foot on the Normandy beaches and other World War II sites, they express a mix of joy and sadness. Joy at seeing the gratitude and friendliness of the French toward those who landed on June 6, 1944. Sadness as they think of their fallen comrades and of another battle now being waged in Europe: the war in Ukraine.

Soldiers participating in the traditional Trooping of the Colour for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee refused to break their gait after protesters rushed into the street, eventually being dragged away by police.

Four days of celebrations honouring Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne will get underway Thursday with a display of British military traditions stretching from the days of horse and cannon to the jet age.

Britain marked Oak Apple Day on May 29th – a once hugely popular holiday celebrating the escape of the future Charles II from Oliver Cromwell and the country’s eventual return to tradition. 

Academics who specialise in Medieval History have become embroiled in an internal racism row over the alleged focus on “whiteness” within Anglo-Saxon history.

Leftists in Britain celebrated St George’s Day on Saturday with their annual issuing of false claims that the Roman soldier of Cappadocian Greek ethnicity was, variously, “Turkish”, “Arab”, and “a migrant worker” in an effort to “own” English patriots.

Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.

Jamaica indicated on Wednesday that they intend to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and become a republic.

Whoopi Goldberg, has called for the royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

British comedy icon John Cleese had his mic taken by woke co-panellists at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British imperialism was not unique and that the British, too, were once slaves.  

Hungary, noted for its strong border policies, has opened its arms to Ukrainian refugees despite having a policy of “blocking cooperation with Ukraine at every European Union and NATO forum” over the country’s treatment of its Hungarian minority until Russia invaded, an official told Breitbart News this week.

Govt advisors in Brussels suggested a statue of controversial Belgian King Leopold II should be melted down and turned into a memorial.

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.”

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. 

English Morris Dancers have cancelled their traditional face paint opting for a non-black colour over allegations of racism.

The video shows a masked man who says he is a Sikh named Jaswant Singh Chail vowing to assassinate the Queen as revenge for a 1919 massacre.

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the country’s governing ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has accused Germany of trying to create a “Fourth Reich” by pushing for a European Union federal state.

America may not have what it takes to stay together in its third century, historian Craig Shirley assessed on the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

Former U.S. President Donald J Trump has suggested that Joe Biden’s removal of the bust of Anglo-American wartime leader Winston Churchill is a slight on relations with the United Kingdom.

The Notre Dame Cathedral looks set to become a super-woke Disneyland-style “theme park” under new renovation plans.

The “Glorious Dead” of the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth were honoured at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday without the Queen, who is suffering from an injury.

LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her back and will not attend the Remembrance Sunday service in central London to remember Britain’s war dead, Buckingham Palace said Sunday.

Schools, businesses, and streets fell silent Thursday morning as the nation honoured war dead on the 103rd anniversary of armistice day.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sparked outrage when he claimed that politicians who fail to act on climate change will allow an “infinitely greater” genocide than the Holocaust and be judged “in far stronger terms” than those who appeased Nazi Germany.

BERLIN (AP) – Berlin’s police chief apologized on Monday for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

Viktor Orbán drew battle lines against the Hungarian left, their international backers in the European Union and foreign press, and Big Tech in a passionate, wide-ranging speech commemorating the 1956 uprising against the country’s then-communist puppet government.

Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.

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

The National Theatre of Scotland announced that it will not be using the word “spooky” as it has been used previously as a racial slur.

The British Museum will display what it says is the world´s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on Stonehenge.

Lackowski, who had worked many years to commemorate the site, expressed his satisfaction that the victims finally have a proper memorial.

(AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians whose scale was covered up for decades by French authorities.

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