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Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng slams Black Lives Matter for a ‘cartoon-like view’ of the British Empire and attacks calls to ‘decolonise’ history lessons by saying that schools should teach MORE about the UK’s imperial past By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 17:56 GMT, 29 January 2021 | Updated: 20:30 GMT, 29 January 2021 … Read more
Police warn anyone planning to protest at court appearance of four people accused of pulling down slave trader Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol they risk large Covid fines Police issue warning to those planning to protest outside court over statue row They fear that protesters will gather outside court in breach of Covid-19 rules Bronze … Read more
‘There has been some negativity’: Ashley Banjo reveals his Black Lives Matter routine on Britain’s Got Talent caused ‘division’ in his family By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 12:43 GMT, 24 January 2021 | Updated: 12:44 GMT, 24 January 2021 Ashley Banjo has revealed his Black Lives Matter routine on Britain’s Got Talent caused ‘division’ … Read more
By James Robinson for MailOnline William Beckford William Beckford – often referred to as Alderman Beckford to distinguish him from his novelist son of the same name – was a well-known political figure in the 18th century. A vastly wealthy man, he twice served as the Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and 1769. But … Read more
City of London votes to remove statues of former Lord Mayor William Beckford and philanthropist MP Sir John Cass for links to the slave trade in wake of Black Lives Matter protests Comes after recommendation from The Tackling Racism Taskforce It was set up after last year’s Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 Prominent City of London … Read more
City of London votes to remove statues of former Lord Mayor William Beckford and philanthropist MP Sir John Cass for links to the slave trade in wake of Black Lives Matter protests Comes after recommendation from The Tackling Racism Taskforce It was set up after last year’s Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 Prominent City of London … Read more
Labour MPs have slammed Lisa Nandy as ‘patronising’ and ‘out of touch’ after she accused Boris Johnson of ‘trying to start a culture war over a statue of Churchill’ and praised Joe Biden as a ‘woke guy’. The shadow foreign secretary claimed the Prime Minister has ‘managed to trash our reputation’ as a ‘values-driven’ country … Read more
When I started out in this game 50 years ago, on a now defunct weekly paper in Peterborough, we used to drink in a city centre pub called the Black Boy & Trumpet. Nobody gave the name a second thought. We had no idea that half a century later we would have been committing a … Read more
Metropolitan Police will record the ethnicity of people pulled over in cars under a six-month pilot scheme following criticism over the force’s stop-and-search methods in capital. Sadiq Khan said the plan would address ‘concerns about racial profiling and disproportionality’ in London which were brought to light during the Black Lives Matter movement last summer. Team GB … Read more
Five people were arrested in London for breaching Covid restrictions as protestors carrying Black Lives Matter signs demonstrated in Parliament Sqaure following the death of a 24-year-old man. Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested on Friday evening last week after reports of a disturbance at his home but released the following morning without charge. He was … Read more