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

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

Just in case you haven’t cancelled your £159 licence fee, yet, the BBC has issued a helpful remind

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”.

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”.

Police officers in Norwich, England have recorded a “hate-related public order offence” against a local resident who flew the Confederate flag to mark the anniversary of the death of Civil War General Stonewall Jackson.

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.

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.

France’s education ministry rejected leftist demands to radically feminise the French language in schools, which supporters claimed would have fostered a more gender-inclusive society.

A charity has urged us to not use words like ‘able-bodied’ lest it offend people who aren’t, er, as bodily able as people who are.

Police should wipe allegations of so-called non-crime hate incidents from the record if no crime was found to have been committed, Home Secretary Priti Patel reportedly told police leaders.

Swedish police have released a sketch of a young black man suspected to have been one of two men who attacked and raped a woman.

Britain has mostly lost the ‘Blitz Spirit’ that got it through the Second World War, an elderly couple told Breitbart News on the campaign trail with actor-turned-London-Mayoral-candidate Laurence Fox. They both supported Fox’s views that London’s lockdown should end now.

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”. 

Boys at an Australian school were made to “stand up and apologise to every girl for rape [and] sexual assault” at an assembly, according to pupils.

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”.

Prince Harry and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have teamed up with a former Hilary Clinton campaigner who believes that all white people are “rife with internalised racism and unconscious bias”.

Top Church of Sweden theologian Jakob Wirén has claimed that Christians could view Islam’s Mohammed as a prophet.

Italian media erupted with anger after it was revealed that a French museum would be scrapping Roman numerals at exhibits after claims that fewer people can understand them.

Simona Baldassarre, a Member of the European Parliament for Matteo Salvini’s League, has denounced a new glossary from the European Union that allegedly directs members to stop saying terms like “mother” and “father”.

Guidance included using they/their/them instead of he/she or him/her, ‘humankind’ instead of ‘mankind’, ‘sibling’ instead of brother or sister, ‘living with cancer’ instead of ‘suffering from cancer’, and even ‘people with diabetes’ instead of ‘diabetics’.

Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek claims the company is not left or right leaning, and that everyone agrees Disney has the power “to unite us all.” But Chapek’s claims come after two thirds of Americans say the multimedia company has taken political correctness too far.

The vast majority of Americans believe companies, such as Disney, have taken political correctness too far, according to a poll conducted by Survey Monkey, with oversight and analysis provided by Public Opinion Strategies.

British prime minister Boris Johnson has posted a picture of himself posing with a copy of a Dr Seuss story for World Book Day, amid an ongoing culture war battle over whether the late children’s author should be “cancelled”. 

No-kneeling Wales defeated England in the Six Nations rugby tournament to claim the competition’s prized Triple Crown.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued for a “stand your ground law for cancel culture, so that when the woke mob comes after you for some ridiculous offense, you’ll stand your ground. Stop apologizing.” Maher

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has slammed Coca-Cola for allegedly requiring staff to take training urging them to “be less white”. 

Nottingham Forest footballer Lyle Taylor has said he will no longer be “taking a knee” for the Black Lives Matter movement before matches, branding it a “Marxist group” that pushes “racial unrest”. 

A United Nations organization deleted a Valentine’s Day tweet celebrating different forms of love after the left complained that a depiction of a black woman hugging herself was racist.

Valparaiso University in Indiana has decided to retire its politically incorrect “Crusader” mascot since the Christian symbol fails to promote “a welcoming and inclusive community.”

The Guardian has amended an article decrying the “phallic” necktie as a symbol of “white male power” to correct an erroneous assertion that it is based on the codpiece.

The Member of Parliament for Rotherham has revealed that she knows survivors of mostly-Muslim rape gangs who are now 70-years-old, suggesting the scope of the abuse is far vaster than many suspected.

The BBC has added trigger warnings to the American sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and British comedy classic Blackadder, claiming that they contain “discriminatory jokes” which may cause “offence”.

Few Scotland players chose to kneel to Black Lives Matter ahead of a historic victory over England in the Six Nations rugby tournament, triggering a woke backlash.

Black Lives Matter activists are targeting statues and other memorials to Captain James Cook, the great British explorer who charted much of Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii, for removal. 

A single tweet criticising a politically correct court decision has cost a London barrister his career.