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30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
This Pride month, why are some historical figures being falsely 'outed' as gay but not others, asks Steven Tucker. Activists rightly reject revisionism about 'gay Hitler', but less genocidal figures aren't so lucky.
No, says Guy de la Bédoyère, Hadrian's Wall is not a 'gay icon'. Its historical legacy is too significant, and the Emperor's sexuality too irrelevant, to be the latest subject of 'woke revisionism'.
The Turner Prize still thinks it's avant garde and subversive when in reality it just repeats the same monotonous Establishment platitudes and woke yawnfests as everyone else, says Steven Tucker.
UCL lecturer Dr Jenny Bulstrode has stoked outrage with her “historically stupid” suggestion that Britain did not end the slave trade.
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