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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 statue to British war-time leader Sir Winston Churchill has been vandalised with graffiti branding him “racist” yet again.

Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, quietly removed statues of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin from campus in July over concerns that they would be vandalized by protesters. The university also feared that having a statue of Thomas Jefferson would become a “target or an embarrassment” for alumni. Statues of Jefferson have recently been targeted by vandals on campuses and in parks around the country.

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.

CNN’s Jake Tapper falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr. said “keep the Confederate statues up,” but he spoke about the Founders and defending “monuments.”

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.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that we should “live in the present and make the future better.” Maher supported removing Confederate statues, and blasted those who are demanding the removal of statues of people like

Two women — including a school social worker — were arrested Monday by police on charges of assaulting a Wisconsin state senator.

For Democrats, a Biden win would mark the success of a strategy they launched in 2016: to frighten the public about Donald Trump, deny his legitimacy, and remove him from office.

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

The Mayor of Bristol has revealed that he was branded “a traitor to the race” and “not really black” after an illegal Black Lives Matter statue was removed from the plinth formerly occupied by Edward Colston.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced a privileged resolution on Thursday that calls upon Congress to ban the Democrat Party supporting slavery and the Confederate States of America, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

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

The Worcester, Massachusetts, city council has voted against a proposal that would move the Christopher Columbus statue, which sits outside Union Station.

Chicago Police Department officers showed footage Tuesday of last weekend’s attack on a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city, in which rioters armed with projectiles used “peaceful” protests as a cover for attacks on police.

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.

Catholic churches across North America suffered a devastating week of vandalism and arson from July 10-16, according to a report from the Aleteia news agency.

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.

Leeds has launched a review into statues of figures including Queen Victoria, former prime ministers the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and founded the police, respectively, and even the Black Prince, who long predates the British empire and the Atlantic slave trade.

Twelve protesters were arrested and 18 police officers injured during an altercation Friday in Chicago’s Grant Park over a statue of Christopher Columbus.

Efforts to remove a statue of Robert Clive, the great British military commander, from the English market town he represented in Parliament have foundered — at least for now.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a major report Thursday seeking to determine which human rights should be considered “inalienable.”

A group of Catholics turned out Wednesday evening to pray the Rosary at the site of a Virgin Mary statue that had been set ablaze over the weekend outside of St. Peter Parish in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.

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 removal of monuments and statues across America is part of a broader “Marxist takeover” involving elected officials, stated Marc Little.

With the silent approval of the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, and the corporate media, our Christian churches are under attack, and I fear this is only the beginning.

Donald Trump is a disruptive president, but in the service of the Burkean conservatism that Never Trumpers once purported to uphold.

Conservative figures Tom Fitton, Mark Levin, and Allen West joined a video celebrating the Founders, veterans, and police officers.

Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News exclusively in Pennsylvania that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments earlier on Thursday dismissing vandals who destroyed a Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore on July 4 were “unconscionable.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Thursday that she did not oppose the violent, unlawful removal and destruction of a statue of Christopher Columbus on July 4 in her native city of Baltimore, Maryland.

The statue of founder of the scouts’ movement Robert Baden-Powell who led an expedition to end the enslavement of Africans by the Ashanti tribe has been released from its protective casing, a month after Marxist Black Lives Matter protesters threatened to tear it down over claims that Baden-Powell was a racist and supported Nazis.

Given the Democratic Party’s embarrassment that Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were Democrats, shouldn’t the party be embarrassed of its own name? Isn’t the Democratic Party’s role in our country’s worse episodes of racism offensive?

Work crews ventured to the heart of Richmond, Virginia, where they removed the statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart on Tuesday, one week after the city’s mayor ordered all Confederate monuments on city property be removed.

President Donald Trump told a reporter Tuesday that the controversy over NASCAR’s recent ban on the display of the Confederate flag at races is not about the symbol itself, but about “freedom of speech.”

Vandals defaced the construction site for the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa, Canada, with the message “communism will win.”

The leader of the Welsh government has announced an “urgent audit” of statues, street names, and building names “to address Wales’s connections with the slave trade”. The move was inspired by weeks of protest by the Marxist Black Lives Matter campaign which saw statues toppled and graffitied.