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Britain’s National Trust is forcing all of its volunteers to undergo “everyday inclusion” diversity training tackling such alleged issues as so-called “unconscious bias”. 

A student at Oxford is being investigated for allegedly saying the n-word while rapping along to a Notorious B.I.G. song.

A London school where the British flag was pulled down and burned by pupils who say they felt “colonised” is giving in after teachers backed protesting youths. 

The University of Winchester has unveiled its almost £24,000 statue of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, angering staff who have faced years of cutbacks.

The University of Winchester is spending over £23,000 ($31,500) on a statue of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, it has been revealed.

PARIS (AP) – A black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who’s taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says it’s “vital” for his country to confront its colonial past so that it can conquer present racial injustice.

A review of statues, place names, and other memorials inspired by Black Lives Matter in Edinburgh, Scotland, has figures including Queen Victoria, Admiral Nelson, and even Scotland’s national poet, Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns, in its sights, according to reports.

A street in Wales has been put on the naughty step by the Welsh government because of its supposed historical associations with the slave trade. But the man after whom it is named was in fact one of Britain’s most ardent and heroic anti-slavers.

Churchill College at the University of Cambridge hosted an online talk in which academics claimed that Winston Churchill was a white supremacist and the British Empire “far worse” than Nazi Germany.

The University of Leicester has seen academics resign or cut ties after it removed studies in Medieval English in favour of a “decolonised curriculum”.

The legacy of Britain’s wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill, is reported to have been under review by the Imperial War Museum, in the latest blow against British history amid the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter unrest.

A conservative professor has been “cancelled” for the second time in three years after a race-baiting communist academic raised objections to the “pro-colonial” narrative in his latest book about a British imperial administrator.

(AFP) — Australia’s parliament is set to probe alleged foreign interference at public universities, a government minister said Monday, as concerns grow about Chinese influence.

BBC Bitesize, which provides lessons for British schools, has published a video by former National Basketball Association (NBA) player John Amaechi pushing the concept of “white privilege”.

Left-wing bias has created a “chilling effect” in British academia which is forcing conservative and pro-Brexit academics to self-censor on campus, a report has found.

A British educator has warned that the introduction of the “woke vision of racism” in schools is not only harmful to pupils but may be in violation of the 1996 Education Act, which mandates that educators maintain political neutrality in the classroom.

A petition to fire Cambridge professor Priyamvada Gopal, who was promoted after tweeting that “White Lives Don’t Matter. As white lives”, has been removed by Change.org after receiving over 20,000 signatures.

A Cambridge University professor has boasted that she was promoted after tweeting “White Lives Don’t Matter” — after a man who flew a banner saying they do matter over a football match in the wake a suspected terrorist attack was fired.

“We’ve got to start teaching history properly”, said Mr Farage Friday, his latest remarks in a week where he has taken iconoclasts head-on. 

A British university is paying students to spy on their classmates and report them for any language they deem to be a teeny bit offensive.

The map showing how the General Election result would have turned out if only 18- to 24-year-olds voted is terrifying.

A Christian who was expelled from his university for expressing a biblical view on marriage has celebrated winning his latest legal battle, calling it a victory for freedom of speech and religious conscience.

A Scottish 17-year-old school pupil was allegedly removed from class for failing to be “inclusive” by insisting that there are only two genders.

The Head of Politics at the University of Cambridge has called for the voting age to be lowered to six in the wake of the EU referendum.

A teen student says she has left college after revealing her support for Tommy Robinson and being told, “Get out, we don’t want people with your views.”

An ‘expert’ committee advising the British government on immigration has withdrawn a survey asking students where are from and what they think about international students after cries of “racism”.

Siena College officials are investigating a student for publicizing an email sent by a philosophy professor voicing her hostility toward conservative students, who she said make her “miserable.”

Some of the UK’s best and brightest have banded together to form a new pro-Brexit group to counteract the propaganda that Leave supporters are dim-witted, ‘low-information’ voters.

A researcher barred by Bath Spa University from studying people who regret having undergone gender reassignment says the university is trying to “bully” him out of taking it to court over the decision.

An investigation claims to have uncovered a Left-wing cabal in British academia, after 58 academics condemned colleague Nigel Biggar for suggesting Britons should feel temper their guilt about the British Empire with a little pride.

British university academics are plying students with ‘Stop Brexit’ propaganda at lecturers, a Tory MP has revealed.

Research suggests that, if just a few more British voters had been put through the country’s left-liberal university system prior to the Brexit referendum, the result could have been different.

A teacher who fronted a major recruitment campaign for the Department for Education accused schools of “indoctrinating” pupils “from a very young age” in the wake of the EU referendum, it has emerged.

A new study has found that New England colleges and universities, including prestigious Ivy League schools, are the most closed-minded in the country when it comes to entertaining a diversity of political and cultural viewpoints.