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Over 150 Oxford University academics are refusing to teach Oriel College students as a result of the college authorities declining to give into woke demands to hack a historic monument to Cecil Rhodes off its building.

Students at Oxford University have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II because the print represented the UK’s “colonial history”.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.

King’s College London (KCL) has apologised to staff for the “harm” caused by a bulletin which included an image of the late Queen’s consort Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, citing his alleged “history of racist and sexist comments”.

University of Chicago at Illinois (UIC) trustees have voted to approve the removal of the name of legendary Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall from its law school, citing evidence that Marshall approved of slavery and traded in slaves.

The woke chairman of Britain’s National Trust has resigned ahead of moves to oust him at the heritage organisation’s upcoming annual general meeting.

GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is doubling down on his criticism of the critical race theory and has vowed his administration will take action.

A 900-year-old church in East Yorkshire will have damaged carvings replaced with figures celebrating feminist and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) figures. The woke restoration project of St Mary’s Church in Beverley is being spearheaded by Vicar Reverend Rebecca

Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has received backlash for boasting of its efforts at “decolonising the plays of Shakespeare” via a programme of “Anti-racist Shakespeare webinars”.

Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London has moved the figures of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from the Royal exhibit to join the Hollywood display.

Administrators in La Rochelle, France, have placed signs explaining the city’s links to the slave trade on several streets, with the mayor claiming the signs are simply educational.

Birmingham city council will look to replace “extremely problematic” street names and statues across the city following a Black Lives Matter-inspired review.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has dropped the nickname “Saxons” for one of the top England teams following a Black Lives Matter-inspired diversity review into the sport.

Queen Elizabeth II has set out a British legislative programme including voter ID, Brexit free ports, and a host of climate change regulations at the socially-distanced State Opening of Parliament — her first major public engagement since the death of her husband of over seven decades.

British naturalist Charles Darwin has become the latest historical scientist to run afoul of the “decolonise the curriculum” movement, with Sheffield University reportedly claiming that Darwin’s theory on evolution was used to “justify white male supremacy”.

Local government in Leeds, England, is teaming up with publicly-funded Leeds University to expand a BLM-style statues review with a report titled ‘Decolonising Sculpture for Urban Social Justice’.

Britain’s inaugural professor of ‘Black Studies’ has branded the United States of America a “racist project from its very beginnings”, akin to “Europe on steroids”.

(AFP) — Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders attended Anzac Day dawn services Sunday to honour their armed forces, a year after marking the solemn occasion from the isolation of their driveways.

Two supposed Benin Bronzes being “returned” to Africa by the woke Archbishop of Canterbury were actually made in the 1980s and have no link to colonialism, it has been admitted.

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has apologised after the Commonwealth War Graves Commission found itself guilty of “pervasive racism” with respect to the way some ethnic minority veterans were commemorated — or not — over 100 years ago.

LONDON (AP) – This is the Order of Service for the funeral of Prince Philip on Saturday.

WINDSOR, England (AP) – Prince Philip will be remembered as a man of “courage, fortitude and faith” on Saturday, at a funeral that salutes both his service in the Royal Navy and his support for Queen Elizabeth II over three-quarters of a century.

TATOI, Greece (AP) – Prince Philip’s life spanned a century of European history. His family ties were just as broad, with Britain’s longest-serving consort linked by blood and marriage to most of the continent’s royal houses.

The city of Placerville, California, known as “Old Hangtown” since the days of informal justice among miners during the Gold Rush, will replace the noose in its municipal logo after a unanimous vote by the city council on Tuesday evening.

Primary school children in England have reportedly been asked by the National Trust to write poems “denigrating” the British Empire, as campaigners attempt to convince the heritage charity to abandon its increasingly woke agenda.

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 Telegraph reports that University of Oxford academics have complained that “Teaching notation which has not ‘shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ would be a ‘slap in the face’ for some students”, as it has “complicity in white supremacy”.

Sadiq Khan’s “Housing Design Advocate” has denounced traditional architecture as “offensive” and said it “harks back to oppression”.

Instead of obsessing about the worst parts of America’s past, perhaps we should remind ourselves how we transcended them.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greece’s celebrations for the bicentenary of the start of the nation’s war of independence are culminating in a military parade and warplane flyby in Athens on Thursday, the country’s Independence Day.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) – A senior European human rights official is sounding the alarm about a rise in racism and discrimination in Portugal.

A leading Conservative MP has said that a report by Historic England tying historical sites to slavery should be “shredded”. 

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.

Britain may be able to leverage an unexpected asset against a rising China as it vies to displace the Western allies as the world’s preeminent power bloc: the remnants of its historic empire. 

The grave of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Smith has become the latest target of a Black Lives Matter-inspired review of sites supposedly linked to “slavery and colonialism” by Edinburgh Council.

The Conservative culture minister has told the institutions trusted with preserving Britain’s cultural heritage not to let themselves be “bullied” by “left-wing campaigns”, as convenors of museums and other spaces come under increasing pressure from Black Lives Matter-inspired activists to unperson historical figures.