Appearing in front of TV cameras for the first time since the full outcome of last week’s local elections were revealed, the PM acknowledged ‘disappointing’ results.
SUSIE DENT: As someone immersed in dictionaries, I’ve long known that a word can paint a thousand pictures, summoning memories and feelings as vividly as any photo.
ANDREW PIERCE: Boris Johnson looked unusually forlorn, occasionally holding his head in his hands, while sitting just yards from Royal Family members for the Jubilee.
Adventurer HM Stanley was commemorated as a statue in his home town of Denbigh, Wales, but critics pointed to his links to colonialism prompting a vote on whether it should be removed.
A statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed atop a pedestal in the city of Bristol, England.
On "The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah", Jon Stewart lampooned Republicans' hypocrisy over tearing down Confederate statues.
Crowds in Washington D.C. also toppled a statue of a Confederate general late on Friday, capping a day when thousands of people marched through U.S. cities in Juneteenth observances commemorating the abolition of slavery. Video footage on Twitter showed cheering protesters in Raleigh taking down two Confederate statues with ropes and hanging one to a […]
The man, believed to be in his thirties, had been part of a group of protesters attempting to topple the statue of the president of the Confederacy at around 11pm on Wednesday evening.