The move to board up the monument of Sir Winston Churchill has been compared by one Tory peer to the ‘fascist days of Islamic State’ in Syria. Tory Lord Marlesford said the targeting of statues amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right groups in the capital gave way to raising the … Read more
Winston Churchill’s picture has disappeared from Google’s list of British prime ministers as protesters call for his statue to be torn down. The wartime leader is the only prime minister to be left without a photo. Clement Attlee, Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin, who all served before Churchill, are still displayed with their images. Adolf … Read more
Winston Churchill’s picture has disappeared from Google’s list of British prime ministers as protesters call for his statue to be torn down. The wartime leader is the only prime minister to be left without a photo. Clement Attlee, Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin, who all served before Churchill, are still displayed with their images. It … Read more
Popular historian and bestselling author Tom Holland said many Britons will regard the boarding up of Winston Churchill’s statue as ‘sinister’ after it was covered to protect it from further attacks. Mr Holland, 52, also claimed the sight of locals in Poole, Dorset, needing to defend the statue of founder of the Scouting movement Robert Baden-Powell … Read more
Workers last night boarded up the Cenotaph and Winston Churchill’s statue to protect them from damage ahead of another weekend of protests in the capital. Scaffolding sprung up around Churchill’s statue at Parliament Square and the nearby Cenotaph late on Thursday evening after concerns they could yet again be targeted by Black Lives Matter activists. … Read more
The Black Lives Matter protester who ‘tagged’ the statue of Winston Churchill said he did it because Britain’s greatest Prime Minister was a ‘confirmed racist’ who cared more about colonialism than black people. The masked young man, who is being searched for by the Metropolitan Police today for the vandalism in Parliament Square, claimed that … Read more
Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory. The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection. Then … Read more
Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory. The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection. Then … Read more
‘Let us not forget the toils ahead’: How Churchill’s VE Day message and photos of jubliant Londoners hold haunting relevance today… as locked-down Britons prepare to mark 75 years since end of WWII Images of Britons celebrating victory over Nazi Germany have reemerged ahead of VE Day’s 75th anniversary Evocative pictures show the streets of … Read more
‘Let us not forget the toils ahead’: How Churchill’s VE Day message and photos of jubliant Londoners hold haunting relevance today… as locked-down Britons prepare to mark 75 years since end of WWII Images of Britons celebrating victory over Nazi Germany have reemerged ahead of VE Day’s 75th anniversary Evocative pictures show the streets of … Read more