Winston Churchill’s chauffeur’s fascinating archive including police instructions on where to pick up the PM during WWII are discovered in JIGSAW box about to be thrown away Forgotten stash of wartime memorabilia found in jigsaw box set to be thrown out Collection includes instructions on where and when the PM was to be picked up … Read more
Winston Churchill’s chauffeur’s fascinating archive including police instructions on where to pick up the PM during WWII are discovered in JIGSAW box about to be thrown away Forgotten stash of wartime memorabilia found in jigsaw box set to be thrown out Collection includes instructions on where and when the PM was to be picked up … Read more
The statues dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela emerged once again in Parliament Square today after workers removed the metal boards covering the iconic leaders on the same day the French President made his visit to the capital. Construction workers, dressed in protective clothing and equipped with harnesses, set to work removing each of … Read more
The Mail on Sunday today calls on our readers to help block any attempt to remove the statue of Sir Winston Churchill from outside the Houses of Parliament. Our petition urges Boris Johnson to make a public pledge that the monument to Britain’s celebrated wartime leader will never be moved after it was attacked by … Read more
‘Bring down Winston Churchill’s statue!’ Black Lives Matter organiser calls for ‘offensive’ memorial of wartime leader to be removed and put into a museum Imarn Ayton, a figurehead of BLM movement, feels the Churchill statue must go As a compromise she feels it should be placed into a museum, not in the streets ‘Any statues … Read more
The deafening explosion that lit up the night sky over Tehran in the early hours of December 1, 1943, was heard across the Iranian capital. It would surely have been noticed by Winston Churchill, a notorious light sleeper, over in the British Embassy, although he might not have immediately realised its grim significance. The previous … Read more
London’s mayor was accused of caving in to mob rule last night by covering up Winston Churchill’s statue. Sadiq Khan is shielding key public monuments – including the Cenotaph – ahead of anti-racism protests on Saturday. But Priti Patel called on the mayor to uncover the bronze sculpture immediately. ‘We should free Churchill, a hero of … Read more
Home Secretary Priti Patel is incandescent. ‘They are trying to silence me because I don’t conform to their version of what it is to be an ethnic minority,’ she seethes. ‘They think they have a licence to speak for everybody from an ethnic minority community. ‘That is not the case. It is simply not the … 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
A group of volunteers including four Army cadets cleaned up a memorial to Winston Churchill in London this morning after it was defaced by activists during yesterday’s violent Black Lives Matter protests. The men scrubbed graffiti off the statue one day after the phrase ‘was racist’ was added in spray paint by protesters below the … Read more