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The leading figure in a campaign to topple Britain’s statues is a hard-left antivaxxer fanatic who once disrupted a service for the Queen to tell her ‘you should be ashamed’. Toyin Agbetu, 53, was recently appointed a member of Sadiq Khan’s new diversity commission and is now supporting a campaign to remove a monument to … Read more
Jacob Rees-Mogg accused Sadiq Khan of overseeing ‘loony left-wing wheezes’ today after the London mayor unveiled a new body that could remove statues and alter street names in the capital that are deemed offensive The Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm was announced today and will include art historian Aindrea Emelife and chairman of … Read more
A woman who styled her hair with Gorilla Glue has received her first treatment from a Los Angeles plastic surgeon who claims he can fully remove the adhesive from her hair and scalp. Tessica Brown, 40, from Violet, Louisiana, flew into Los Angeles on Wednesday and was whisked straight to the offices of plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Obeng … Read more
Instagram have finally announced they will crack down on online abuse by removing accounts that send racist messages and prevent abusers from creating new profiles in the wake of the latest spate of sickening racist attacks on footballers. Manchester United players Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Axel Tuanzebe and Lauren James are among those to have been … Read more
Treasure hunters target Welsh beach where girl, four, discovered 215million-year-old dinosaur footprint as vandals armed with sledgehammers and crowbars try to remove rocks Lily Wilder found the dinosaur footprint on a beach at Bendricks Bay near Barry Armed vandals have since descended on the beach to get a glimpse of her find Environmentalists said ‘several people’ … Read more
President Joe Biden signed three immigration-related executive orders in the Oval Office Tuesday, with the intent to ‘remove the stain’ of President Donald Trump’s policies like child separation. ‘And with the first action today, we’re going to work to undo the moral and national shame of the previous administration that literally, not figuratively, ripped children … Read more
A council has U-turned on plans to remove a statue of a Victoria Cross-winning British war hero after 9,000 people signed a petition to defend him. The monument of General Sir Redvers Buller has been in place outside Exeter College for more than 100 years, but its future was in doubt after the city council announced … Read more
Facebook is developing a new tool that will keep ads away from sensitive posts in your News Feed. The social media platform is testing ‘topic exclusion’ controls that allow advertisers to keep marketing from politics, crime, controversial social issues and other designated topics. It’s already started using the controls with a limited number of advertisers. … Read more
Google has threatened to remove Google Search in Australia if a proposed new law requiring it to pay news organisations for content is passed. A proposed law, introduced to Parliament in December, will force Facebook and Google to negotiate fees with news companies whose stories appear on their platforms. Under the world-first proposal, if a negotiation … 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