statue wars

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.

England’s Northumbria Police force has flagged a statue of two Vikings in Jarrow, England, for possible “associations with far-Right symbolism”.

The Black Lives Matter-inspired culture war on Britain’s history is continuing as a school named for English naval hero Sir Francis Drake is set to be rebranded after bosses decided he “sat at odds with the values of our school.”

A BLM activist in Bristol has been charged with fraud in connection to allegedly missing money from a fundraising page for statue protesters.

The so-called ‘Festival of Brexit’ intended to promote the United Kingdom post-European Union, funded by taxpayers to the tune of £120 million, is infested with woke events featuring drag queens and harping on the imperial roots of gardening – and failing to attract visitors.

British statesman and slavery abolitionist Edmund Burke, widely regarded as one of the fathers of conservativism, has been added to a BLM-inspired shame list by UK parliamentarians for historical figures with supposed connections to the slave trade.

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 charity which owns it complains it spends so much money on repairs, it can no longer afford to deliver anti-racism and pro-Euro education. 

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. 

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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.

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’

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

People who desecrate or vandalise memorials or statues in Britain will face up to ten years in prison under tough new legislation set to be enacted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government. The legislation, a part of the Government’s Police,

London mayoral candidate Laurence Fox has vowed to stand up to the BLM-inspired attacks on British heritage being pushed by Sadiq Khan.

The grave of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Smith has become the latest target of a Black Lives Matter-inspired review of sites supposedly linked to “slavery and colonialism” by Edinburgh Council.

A statue depicting the severed head of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on a pike has been displayed in the town centre of her childhood home by a left-wing Welsh artist. Mark Robla, a 34-year-old sculptor from Grantham in

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that the Labour Party will face electoral ruin if it fails to rein in the Black Lives Matter inspired attack on British heritage by London mayor Sadiq Khan.

Leftist Mayor of London Sadiq Khan unveiled a Black Lives Matter inspired ‘diversity’ commission on Tuesday, which will review all historical monuments in the British capital. Mr Khan’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, which is comprised of left-wing

Historic England has compiled a Black Lives Matter style ‘audit’ of villages with connections to the “transatlantic slavery economy”.

A statue celebrating the life of a British war hero has been saved from removal by a Black Lives Matter inspired Labour council after the Conservative government announced stricter measures against left-wing iconoclastic assaults on British history.

Historical monuments and statues in Britain will be granted new legal protections from “baying mobs” and the “revisionist purges” carried out by left-wing Labour Party councils, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick announced on Sunday.

A city council in the UK is set to remove the statue of a British war hero after a Black Lives Matter inspired review determined that he represent colonialism and does not represent women and so-called ‘gender non-binary’ people. Following

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.

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.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to empower a government minister with the ability to veto the removal of Britain’s historical statues in an effort to combat against the BLM inspired iconoclastic movement sweeping through large sections of the political left in the UK.

A London-based artist has installed a statue depicting a Black Lives Matter protester to fill the empty plinth where the figure of Edward Colston once stood.

The Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, has condemned the “secular iconoclasm” raging in the United States, epitomized by Shaun King’s call for destruction of images of a “white” Jesus.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has denounced the misguided destruction of statues of Saint Junipero Serra, the “apostle of California.”

PARIS (AP) — Two Paris statues related to France’s colonial era were daubed with red paint Monday amid a global movement to take down monuments to figures tied to slavery or colonialism. One statue was of Hubert Lyautey, near the

The recently “unboxed” statue of Sir Winston Churchill remained unscathed at Black Lives Matter protests in London as the Metropolitan Police (Met) finally stationed officers to guard the monument to Britain’s wartime leader.