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The “Glorious Dead” of the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth were honoured at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday without the Queen, who is suffering from an injury.

Schools, businesses, and streets fell silent Thursday morning as the nation honoured war dead on the 103rd anniversary of armistice day.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sparked outrage when he claimed that politicians who fail to act on climate change will allow an “infinitely greater” genocide than the Holocaust and be judged “in far stronger terms” than those who appeased Nazi Germany.

BERLIN (AP) – Berlin’s police chief apologized on Monday for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.

London’s leftist mayor Sadiq Khan is making £25,000 grants available to change street names in a Black Lives Matter-inspired diversity drive. 

The National Theatre of Scotland announced that it will not be using the word “spooky” as it has been used previously as a racial slur.

Lackowski, who had worked many years to commemorate the site, expressed his satisfaction that the victims finally have a proper memorial.

(AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians whose scale was covered up for decades by French authorities.

A statue of famed European explorer Christopher Columbus was vandalised on Tuesday in London, led by iconoclast leftist mayor Sadiq Khan.

German composers Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss are among 45 historical figures whose names could be removed from city streets in Munich due to their political beliefs.

Most of the “baddest actors” charged at the Nuremberg Trials escaped justice, Dean Reuter, general counsel and vice president at the Federalist Society and co-author of The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil, stated on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a state law preventing the removal of a Confederate monuments or changing a historical names is legal.

Taliban officials claimed on Friday that a viral video showing the destruction of Afghanistan’s historic Gereshk Fortress was a “misunderstanding.” The video clearly shows the walls of the ancient site coming down, but the Taliban claimed it was merely demolishing an unused prison located near the fortress.

Sinclair launched his first affordable consumer computer, the ZX80, in 1980, which cost less than 100 pounds ($135).

Schools in Ontario are facing backlash after burning or destroying books deemed offensive to First Nations, including classic comics such as Tintin and Asterix.

Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and other left-wing activists expanded their effort to erase history by replacing the contents of a time capsule that was inside the pedestal of the now-removed statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee since 1887, claiming the new contents represent “who we are.”

Statues of Admiral Lord Nelson, Sir Francis Drake, and Thomas Guy are under threat in Sadiq Khan’s London as woke academics and bureaucrats continue the BLM-inspired war on Britain’s built heritage.

A Black Lives Matter-inspired review has found that the use of the Welsh language is linked to “white supremacist ideology”.

Leftist statue smashers in Canada toppled the statue of Sir John A MacDonald and doused Queen Victoria in red paint over the weekend.

New Zealand’s parliament took a historic portrait of Sir Winston Churchill in response to Green Party lobbying, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern brushing the incident off with a flat “I don’t care.” 

Referring to Indian food as “curry” is a racist relic of British colonialism, according to woke academics and food influencers.

A far-left extremist group have desecrated a memorial to soldiers who fought in the First World War in Hamburg, painting over parts of the monument to make it state “Germany must die”.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias addressed Turkey’s recent actions in the Eastern Mediterranean this week, telling the country, “the days of the Ottoman Empire are over.”

At Palm Spring High School in California, Indians will remain the school’s nickname — a decision okayed by officials and the Cahuilla Tribe.

A South Korean public broadcaster was forced to issue an apology on Monday after social media users accused the TV station of using “inappropriate” images and commentary during its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on July 23, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.

Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations at Hillsdale College, invited parents and educators to combat left-wing revisionist history with his school’s K-12 “1776 curriculum.”

The committee said the projects were “detrimental to the site´s authenticity and integrity” and had caused “irreversible loss of attributes.”

English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia told students in the latest decolonise the curriculum push.

The London Borough of Hackney has been forced to admit that Toyin Agbetu, who resigned from Sadiq Khan’s statues commission following anti-Semitism allegations and once screamed at the Queen in church, is still part of its own review of memorials.

First Nations Christians spoke of being left “heartbroken” after their historic Anglican church burned to the ground amid the ongoing wave of arson attacks and statue-smashing sweeping Canada.

A native totem pole was set on fire on Canada’s Vancouver Island in what is suspected to be retaliation for the destruction of a statue of Captain James Cook.

A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a highly equivocal denunciation of the wave of church arsons and statue smashing sweeping Canada, calling the attacks “unacceptable” but defending the anger fueling them as “fully understandable”.

Ahead of July 4, Democrats and leftists “are trying to make us hate our history,” J.D. Vance, author of Hillbillly Elegy, told Breitbart News.

President Joe Biden apparently breached royal protocol by blabbing some details of a personal conversation he had with the Queen at the G7.