It is the potential for fun that fatness has always been such a rich part of British heritage but woke enthusiasms threaten to airbrush this type of character out of our national story.
It is the potential for fun that fatness has always been such a rich part of British heritage but woke enthusiasms threaten to airbrush this type of character out of our national story.
A £19,000-a-year private girls prep school has decided to rename its sports hall after it was revealed the family it was named after had links to the slave trade. Wimbledon High School in Merton, south west London, is planning on dropping the name Draxmont because of the family’s association with a slave plantation owner who … Read more
A £19,000-a-year private girls prep school has decided to rename its sports hall after it was revealed the family it was named after had links to the slave trade. Wimbledon High School in Merton, south west London, is planning on dropping the name Draxmont because of the family’s association with a slave plantation owner who … Read more
School renames ‘mufti day’ with ‘be yourself day’ fearing long-standing name is culturally insensitive A New Zealand college has renamed ‘mufti day’ to the new ‘be yourself day’ School received concerns colloquial use of the Arabic name was insensitive Heretaunga College in Upper Hutt held its first ‘be yourself day’ last Tuesday Assistant Principal says … Read more
School renames ‘mufti day’ with ‘be yourself day’ fearing long-standing name is culturally insensitive A New Zealand college has renamed ‘mufti day’ to the new ‘be yourself day’ School received concerns colloquial use of the Arabic name was insensitive Heretaunga College in Upper Hutt held its first ‘be yourself day’ last Tuesday Assistant Principal says … Read more
Greene King has renamed four of its pubs over fears the monikers had ‘racist’ connotations – sparking outrage on social media over the ‘woke’ move. Three pubs called The Black Boy – in Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury in Suffolk, and Shinfield in Berkshire – and another called The Black’s Head in Wirksworth, Derbyshire were renamed following … Read more
Greene King has renamed four of its pubs over fears the monikers had ‘racist’ connotations – sparking outrage on social media over the ‘woke’ move. Three pubs called The Black Boy – in Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury in Suffolk, and Shinfield in Berkshire – and another called The Black’s Head in Wirksworth, Derbyshire were renamed following … Read more
Elite private school renames Clive of India house over military leader’s links to colonialism and Empire Robert Clive was a notoriously wealthy military leader in the 18th Century He attended Merchant Taylor’s School for Boys in Hertfordshire for one year He went on to become a clerk for the East India Company before rising up … Read more
Elite private school renames Clive of India house over military leader’s links to colonialism and Empire Robert Clive was a notoriously wealthy military leader in the 18th Century He attended Merchant Taylor’s School for Boys in Hertfordshire for one year He went on to become a clerk for the East India Company before rising up … Read more