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The same Washington establishment that championed the Common Core standards and encouraged more federal involvement in education has endorsed a civics initiative that seeks to indoctrinate K-12 students into woke “action” political organizing, under the guise of restoring “unity.” In

A police force in Merseyside, England was forced to apologise after officers paraded around a local car park with a van emblazoned with an electronic billboard that read “Being Offensive is an Offence” during a so-called “hate crime awareness event”.

A secondary school in England has removed the names of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill from school houses after teenage students branded the famous Brits as “intolerant”. Students at the Seaford Head School

Leftist Mayor of London Sadiq Khan unveiled a Black Lives Matter inspired ‘diversity’ commission on Tuesday, which will review all historical monuments in the British capital. Mr Khan’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, which is comprised of left-wing

The British pastime of gardening is rooted in “racial injustice”, said the Professor of Post-Colonial Literature at Leicester University.

Britain is becoming a “totalitarian woke state” according to a former leader of the Conservative Party, as the UK’s broadcasting regulator has expanded its definition of hate speech to include transgender intolerance and ‘political or any other opinion’. There are

Britain’s socialised healthcare system is requiring retired doctors and nurses to meet a checklist that requires “equality, diversity, and human rights” training before they can help administer Chinese virus vaccines.

If former Vice President Joe Biden becomes president, Big Tech’s left-wing political censorship will worsen, forecasted Dave Rubin.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) embraced “woke” culture in a recent article asserting sex designations on birth certificates “offer no clinical utility” and can even “be harmful for intersex and transgender people.”

A residential building scheme in Birmingham, England will feature a slew of woke street names, including “Diversity Grove” and “Equality Road” after the city council approved the names on Tuesday. The names were selected out of submissions from the public

Police in Britain have become too politically correct, and woke attitudes have done little to actually help ethnic minorities in the country, the president of the National Black Police Association said. Inspector Andy George of the Police Service of Northern

Critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi declared this week that the expression “legal vote” used to describe votes cast in conformity with U.S. laws is “functionally racist.”

A portrait of Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping cast as ‘BAT MAN’ has been removed from a Swedish restaurant after users on social media complained that the satirical jab at Xi’s role in the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus was racist.

Pollsters are saying British parents think traditional fairy tales — particularly those that feature a “damsel in distress” — don’t align with modern sensibilities, as the BBC promotes a woke reimagining of the fables by former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq.

The fear, of course, is simple: Woke Is Broke. That is, ordinary Americans, especially on the right, won’t pay their hard-earned money to be criticized, even insulted, by the players.

In response to the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter movement, the Natural History Museum has launched a review into supposedly “offensive” and “problematic” collections, including exotic birds collected by English naturalist Charles Darwin.

Senior British Army officers are set to introduce a Diversity and Inclusion Directorate to enforce politically correct standards among the ranks of the armed forces and will hire a team of equality specialists to carry out the woke initiative.

A BBC producer said that singing the words of the patriotic British song Rule, Britannia! is akin to neo-Nazis singing about gas chambers.

In a late-night tweet, Labour MP Neil Coyle accused Brexiteers of being “absolute sh*tbag racist w*nkers”, in the ongoing row over the BBC’s decision to pull the lyrics of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory from this year’s

A bust of the founder of the British Museum has been removed from its pedestal over his ties to the slave trade, as the influence of Black Lives Matter iconoclasm spreads throughout historical institutions in the United Kingdom. The bust

Prime Minister Boris Johnson lashed out at the BBC over its decision to remove the lyrics of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory from its broadcast of the Last Night of the Proms, calling for an end to

Bowing to pressure from the Black Lives Matter movement,the BBC announced o that it will remove the lyrics of Rule, Britannia on the Proms.

BERLIN (AP) – The organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say they will stop awarding separate acting prizes to women and men beginning next year. Berlinale organizers said Monday the performance awards will be defined in a gender-neutral way

Britain’s first professor of Black Studies claimed on Monday that the patriotic song Rule, Britannia! is racist propaganda and that Land of Hope and Glory should be renamed as ‘Land of Racism and Servitude’. Following reports that the BBC may

The BBC is reportedly considering the idea of scrapping patriotic songs Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory in a push to “decolonise” the broadcast of the Last Night of the Proms in response to the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter movement.

The BBC removed a musical version of a poem penned by Rudyard Kipling from the celebrations commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Japan Day, following complaints from a Jamaican-born opera singer, who claimed the poem has “cultural superiority” embedded in the verse.

British comedian and creator of The Office and After Life, Ricky Gervais, continued his assault on cancel culture, saying that it is “not cool” to try to get people fired over supposedly offensive statements.

British actor and comedian John Cleese said that the woke mob are destroying comedy through political correctness, saying that many people who try to enforce the newfangled speech codes have “no sense of humour”.

British actor David Harewood, star of Homeland and Supergirl, claimed the British film industry doesn’t support black actors, which is why he had to move to the United States, contradicting a study which has found the British media vastly over-represents ethnic minorities.

The UK’s Royal Navy has succumbed to politically correct woke culture, reportedly banning the terms “unmanned” and “manpower” over concerns that using the phrases is “sexist”.

London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is currently hiring so-called ‘racism spotters’ to examine whether prospective police officers are prejudiced, as the city’s leftist mayor, Sadiq Khan, prepares to cut the budget of actual police.

“Woke corporate America” is “our number one enemy,” declared Ann Coulter, author of Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, offering her remarks on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Dylan Gwinn.

In both cases, the programmes were only recently created, being first broadcast between 17 and 10 years ago. 

More than eight in ten people working in culture and the arts feel those with “controversial opinions” risk professional ostracism.

Donald Trump, Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, is out with a new book on Tuesday exposing the left and honing in on just how radical Democrats have become in the era his father is president.

Douglas Murray has criticised the BBC for inviting him onto a programme to discuss woke culture, only for the presenter to ambush him with offence archaeology in order to derail Mr Murray’s argument and effectively ‘cancel’ him live on air.