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The statue of Sir Winston Churchill and Britain’s national war memorial were included in a list of “contentious” monuments by Scotland Yard.

A newly erected statue of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been vandalised again, not even a month after it was first put up.

Iman Less, who previously drew criticism for flipping off a national war memorial, has been elected to the Westminster council.

A statue at the BBC headquarters by a prominent British artist who was acknowledged to have sexually abused children has been vandalised.

The toppling of a statue during a Black Lives Matter protest last year was an “act of love”, a UK court has been told.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of stealing funds raised by a Bristol BLM group after radicals toppled the Colston statue.

A French court convicted and fined a Black rights activist for defacing a statue he sees as an insult to the descendants of slaves.

An Antifa group in Portland, Oregon, called for a Thanksgiving Eve attack on “symbols and structures of colonialism and capitalism.” The incited direct action led to the destruction and vandalism of a veterans’ war memorial and downtown businesses.

Astrophel Sang has been convicted in relation to an attempt to burn the flag of the Cenotaph, Britain’s war memorial, during a Black Lives Matter protest in London in June.

Law enforcement officials in Portland, Oregon, announced the arrests of two people in connection to Sunday night’s riot where two presidential statues were torn down and businesses were vandalized. One of the men was previously arrested in August in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

A London-based artist has installed a statue depicting a Black Lives Matter protester to fill the empty plinth where the figure of Edward Colston once stood.

On Tuesday, a leftist agitator announced the time and date of a planned destruction of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC, while being cheered on by political allies.

PARIS (AP) — Two Paris statues related to France’s colonial era were daubed with red paint Monday amid a global movement to take down monuments to figures tied to slavery or colonialism. One statue was of Hubert Lyautey, near the

The recently “unboxed” statue of Sir Winston Churchill remained unscathed at Black Lives Matter protests in London as the Metropolitan Police (Met) finally stationed officers to guard the monument to Britain’s wartime leader.

Farage compared the surge in iconoclasm and vandalism to the reign of religious extremists in 17th century England.

The statue of Sir Winston Churchill is set to be unboxed in time for the arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron after a week of being hidden from public view in a dystopian grey tomb at the behest of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Nigel Farage has spoken about the “Marxist, Anarchic” threat to free speech in the UK, saying fear is “dominating absolutely everything”. 

French President Emmanuel Macron promised to not remove any statue in the country, proclaiming that France will not erase its history. The pledge came amidst international Black Lives Matter campaigns to tear down tributes to historical figures deemed too controversial to remain standing by the modern left.

Amidst widespread criticism over the failures of Boris Johnson’s government to protect historical monuments and war memorials, ministers are considering a proposal that would impose prison sentences of up to ten years for defacing memorials to fallen soldiers.

The first president of the United States, George Washington, has joined the likes of Sir Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi among historic figures that have had their statues covered up in London over fears of vandalism by Black Lives Matter activists.

A group gathered around the monument to Earl Grey, the prime minister who abolished slavery, as Black Lives Matter protestors marched towards it.

“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. 

Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed the flattening of Stonehenge because of its ugly associations with human sacrifice.

A statue of the world-famous founder of the Scouting movement was due to be removed on Thursday, but now he will receive 24-hour security. 

The statue of an English Restoration era merchant linked to the slave trade which was pulled from its plinth and rolled into the harbour has been lifted out of the water as it posed a hazard to shipping, the city council said.

Britain’s left-wing Labour Party has announced that all local councils where the party is in power will undertake a review of the “appropriateness” of statues to determine whether they should be removed over their connections to the UK’s colonial past or the slave trade.

Police Scotland has told Breitbart London it has “no plans” to guard historic monuments and memorials which have appeared on the ‘Topple the Racists’ hit-list, established by the Stop Trump Coalition “in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the topplers of Edward Colston”.

A large memorial to former British monarch Queen Victoria has been vandalised with slogans including “Black Lives Matter’, “murderer”, and “slag”. 

A hard-left campaign group with a history of high-profile activism has published a list of dozens of public memorials targeted for removal.

A recently circulated petition calls on the University of Virginia to take down a statue of Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark, arguing that it is a “monument to genocide.”

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is running as the antidote to the alleged racism of President Donald Trump, using a “fake news” claim that he praised white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The claim remains a lie.