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Workers last night boarded up the Cenotaph and Winston Churchill’s statue to protect them from damage ahead of another weekend of protests in the capital. Scaffolding sprung up around Churchill’s statue at Parliament Square and the nearby Cenotaph late on Thursday evening after concerns they could yet again be targeted by Black Lives Matter activists. … Read more
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would ‘dominate the streets with compassion’ as he prepares to release his plan for police reform in the wake of national protests after the death of George Floyd. Trump traveled to the Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas, for an economic roundtable on the state’s reopening amid the coronavirus … Read more
He’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But how I empathise with poor Piers Morgan, tied up in intellectual knots by the conflict between his professed beliefs and his affection for his son. As the high priest of lockdown and scourge of those ‘Covidiots’ who break social distancing rules, Piers had no hesitation last week in … Read more
An episode of Fawlty Towers from which the N-word and other offensive terms had previously been cut has been taken down from the BBC’s Netflix-style streaming service UKTV. The 1975 episode titled The Germans – fondly remembered for the repeated line ‘Don’t mention the war’ – is the latest in a series of British programmes to be culled from … Read more
Gavin and Stacey has become the latest series to be dragged into a race row as viewers demand its removal from TV schedules. Critics are calling for the popular comedy, written by James Corden and Ruth Jones, to be pulled in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. The main bone of contention stems … Read more
An episode of Fawlty Towers from which the N-word and other offensive terms had previously been cut has been taken down from the BBC’s Netflix-style streaming service UKTV. The 1975 episode titled The Germans – fondly remembered for the repeated line ‘Don’t mention the war’ – is the latest in a series of British programmes to be culled from … Read more
Protesters who have formed a free zone in Seattle to keep police out spent the night dancing in the street, dining on free vegan pizza and watching movies under the watch of armed guards, after being deemed ‘domestic terrorists’ by a furious President Trump who has ordered Democrats to regain control of the city. The … Read more
Internationally-renowned Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London announced it will remove the statue of its slave-owning founder Thomas Guy following pressure from Black Lives Matter protesters. The hospital – where Boris Johnson received treatment for coronavirus in April – today revealed on Twitter that the contentious statue of Guy is . Bookseller Guy made … Read more
An Oxford-educated museum curator who tweeted a guide on how to chemically destroy bronze statues has been told by police to delete the posts but continues to ignore the instruction. Madeline Odent, the privately schooled curator of Royston Museum in Hertfordshire, sent an inflammatory series of tweets to her 5,164 followers, ending with an explicit … Read more
Love Island EXCLUSIVE: Jess Gale announces she and Ched Uzor have SPLIT… two weeks after hunk revealed lockdown made it impossible for them to ‘build a relationship’ By Ryan Smith for MailOnline Published: 20:05 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 20:09 BST, 11 June 2020 Love Island star Jess Gale has announced her split from … Read more