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A flag celebrating the Black Country’s industrial heritage has been banned by fire bosses who fear the chain symbol is linked to slavery. The black, white and red design became the official flag of the Black Country, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, in 2012 after then 12-year-old schoolgirl Gracie Sheppard won a competition to design … Read more
The sweatshop slavery scandal engulfing Boohoo has cost its founders more than £335million in just two days. Its shares fell another 11.9 per cent, or 35.3p, yesterday to 261.4p – taking losses so far this week to 32.5 per cent. That has wiped £1.6billion off the value of the company, and cost founders Carol Kane … Read more
A portrait of a Battle of Waterloo hero the Queen has hanging in Windsor Castle has had its accompanying gallery and online description changed to include his links to slavery. Historical details of the painting of Sir Thomas Picton have been altered to include a reference to torturing a slave girl when he was the … Read more
The Queen’s portrait of a Battle of Waterloo hero that she has hanging in Windsor Castle has been changed to include his links to slavery. Historical details of the painting of Sir Thomas Picton have now been altered to include a link to his torturing of a slave girl when he was the ‘Tyrant of … Read more
TV historian David Starkey today quit his University of Cambridge fellowship and was stripped of his visiting professor post at Canterbury Christ Church University after he claimed ‘slavery was not genocide’ because ‘so many damn blacks live in Africa and Britain’. Professor Starkey has also resigned from the Mary Rose Trust and could soon be stripped of his … Read more
Historian David Starkey has come under fire after claiming ‘slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many damn blacks in Africa, or in Britain’. The 75-year-old called Black Lives Matter (BLM) ‘wholly and entirely a product of white colonisation’ and its activists ‘not culturally black Africans’. In an interview with Darren Grimes, the … Read more
‘Nitty gritty’ on Sky Sports’ banned list of words due to supposed links to slavery as broadcaster orders commentators to avoid using language which may offend viewers in emails containing list of prohibited phrases Sky Sports will warn reporters not to use words which may offend viewers Staff members will be sent message containing list … Read more
One third of all slavery victims forced into illegal drug trade are children, charity finds Drug gangs dressing children up as key workers to allow them to travel freely 30% of potential slavery victims reported last year were children, up from 23% The number of young people forced into all criminal activity almost doubled By … Read more
We have just celebrated our younger daughter’s 25th birthday. The high point was a ‘Zoom disco’ in which absent family and friends joined Domenica as she danced exuberantly to the soundtrack she had compiled and choreographed herself. She was, of course, the star of the show. For me, this joyful day was also tinged with … Read more
Third of National Trust’s 300 houses and gardens have slavery links it is revealed as bosses vow to let visitors know about ‘uncomfortable’ history after Black Lives Matter ‘watershed moment’ National Trust is set to inform the public about their locations’ colonial history Dr Corinne Fowler has been tasked with examining UK’s ‘Colonial Countryside’ Says visitors … Read more