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

A new plaque has been unveiled at a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University, noting his exploitation of others and how his actions caused "great loss of life," after demands that the monument be taken down.

At the close, the UK blue-chip index was 51.30 points, or 0.7% higher at 7,146.85, the day’s peak and well above the session low of 7,085.85

At the close, the UK blue-chip index was 51.30 points, or 0.7% higher at 7,146.85, the day’s peak and well above the session low of 7,085.85

Oriel has stood firm, despite claims statue is a 'source of shame'

18 May 2021 Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has received backlash for boasting of its efforts at “decolonising the plays of Shakespeare” via a programme of “Anti-racist Shakespeare webinars”. Shakespeare’s Globe, which works primarily out of a reconstruction of the iconic Globe Theatre built by William Shakespeare’s own playing company in the 1500s, suggested that the webinars, supported by Cambridge University Press, were an answer to its own rhetorical question: “What d...

Dubious poll finds majority public support.

A statue of Edward Colston was dumped in Bristol Harbour last summer (Image: GETTY) On Twitter, he commented: “To put the British Empire on a level with the Third Reich is, frankly, disgusting. “An insult both to the victims of the Nazi regime, and to the men of Britain and the Empire who fought and gave their lives to help those victims.” Along with the USA and the Soviet Union the British Empire led the effort to defeat Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. Priti Patel says she would not ...

7 Mar 2021 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. Adam Smith, known as the “father of capitalism” for his seminal works on economic theory, including The Wealth of Nations, has drawn the ire of the Scottish capital’s local government, a coalition between the left-wing Labour Party and the left-separatist Scottish Nation...

3 Mar 2021 The city council of Bristol has approved a motion calling for reparations for slavery as an act of “atonement” for the British port city’s role in the slave trade. The Labour Party-run council passed the motion by a margin of 47 votes to 12 on Tuesday following a zoom meeting of the councillors. The council agreed to implement “community wealth creation strategies” and to write to the British Parliament demanding the establishment of a commission to determine “how repara...