Doggy deadlock! Stubborn spaniels are frozen like statues with their jaws clamped on a chew toy in comic tug-of-war Alison Watson, 59, from Bristol, gave her 14-month-old dog Marmite a chew toy Three-year-old Nutmeg didn’t want to be left out and decided he wanted it too Pair clamped their teeth around the flavoured chew you … Read more
They didn’t chuck communist-era statues in the river in most former Soviet countries after the Iron Curtain fell. Instead, they stuck them in museums and charged tourists to view them. Memento Park — officially named A Sentence About Tyranny Park — on the outskirts of Hungarian capital Budapest — is one of the best known. … Read more
Justin Timberlake has joined a growing cry for the removal of Confederate statues in the Unites States with a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday. The 39-year-old Tennessee native said on social media that the monuments ‘must be taken down’ and that doing so is ‘a symbol of respect for Black people in America.’ Just last month, … Read more
A Russian billionaire has offered to buy two historical US statues that BLM protesters want removed from public view due to their links to racism and colonialism. Businessman Andrey Filatov, 48, who runs the Art Russe Foundation – focusing on the preservation of soviet-era art – has made an offer to purchase two statues that US … Read more
President Donald Trump continued his crusade against protesters targeting statues and national monuments, in a fiery Fourth of July speech comparing the ‘radical left’ to Nazis and terrorists. Speaking from the White House South Lawn on Saturday during the ‘Salute to America’ Independence Day celebration, Trump struck a combative tone, doubling down on his attack … Read more
Donald Trump has said that black people who want statues of slave owners and Confederate figures removing should ‘learn from the history’ or risk ‘going to go back to it sometime’. Calls to remove statues of Confederate figures and those connected to slavery have been mounting in recent weeks in the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests sparked … Read more
First they came for the statues; then they came for the stained glass windows. Yes, the fashion (at least among undergraduates) for trashing commemorative edifices is developing new forms. And in one particular case, the targeted memorial is barely 30 years old. This is the Sir Ronald Fisher memorial, a stained glass window in the … Read more
President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that protesters will be coming after statues of Jesus Christ and the founding fathers next and said he’d be ready to sign a ‘very strong executive order’ by the end of week to punish those who topple statues. ‘Now they are looking at Jesus Christ, they are looking at … Read more
Fury as academic defends pulling down statues on Radio 4 and tells the station that actions by Black Lives Matter protesters could be seen as an ‘energising source of hope’ An academic defended toppling statues on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day Professor Tina Beattie’s comments provoked anger among some listeners Beattie claimed the … Read more
Two statues have been doused with red paint in Paris amid a global movement to tear down monuments with links to colonialism and slavery. Statues depicting colonial administrator Hubert Lyautey and Voltaire – who profited from the slave trade – were drenched in red by protesters in the French capital. Statues and monuments have become … Read more