Dispatch from Sudan:
In a Khartoum ruin, a plaque split by shellfire bears fragments of a name: Charles George Gordon
Sudan wants UK help to rebuild this ravaged palace - where the ongoing civil war began, and where Gordon of Khartoum made his last stand telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02…
Britain could face an international "racial discrimination” lawsuit over slavery reparations
United Nations racism watchdog could allow a slavery case to be brought to the International Court of Justice
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Caribbean nations will try to force slavery reparations onto the agenda of the forthcoming Commonwealth summit attended by the King
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Caribbean nations are to demand slavery reparation talks at summit with King
Plan to mobilise Commonwealth to exert diplomatic pressure
Leaders have gathered in Barbados to plot next steps in the campaign to secure compensation from Britain
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Pakistan is planning to claim ancient statues from the British Museum.
Comes as the country is seeking to show the region is “not just terrorism” and to boost tourism by marketing the Buddhist heritage of the Islamic republic telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
The British Museum is set to hold talks with slavery reparations campaigners about returning tribal artefacts to the Caribbean.
Envoys from the Caribbean have travelled to the UK to demand compensation for slavery and present the King with a petition requesting his direct involvement in the dispute ⤵️
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The British Museum is set to hold discussions with slavery reparations campaigners about returning artefacts to the Caribbean.
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A Caribbean delegation is to deliver demands for slavery reparations to the King.
Envoys sent from Jamaica and other former colonies will petition the King next week to intervene in the ongoing campaign to secure compensation for the slave trade.
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UN experts have told Britain to build statues of African people to atone for the slave trade.
It is one of a series of measures proposed by lawyers, who have written a report for the organisation setting out what former slave-trading nations should do ⤵️
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Untied Nations experts tell Britain to erect new statues and public art as slavery reparations
International lawyers said that school books and hate crime laws could be changed as part of comprehensive reparations package
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Graham Linehan has hit out at the “cowardly liberal class” in a row over gender ideology with an author and former friend.
Linehan, the creator of Father Ted, was “cancelled” after becoming a vocal critic of the belief that self-identification, and not biology, defines men and women.
Now Jon Ronson, a journalist and filmmaker who fell out with Linehan over the issue, has written a new book, The Castle, which includes a chapter analysing their rift 👇
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Excl from Pakistan:
The battle to save a British war memorial from destruction
A mountain prince and lowland villagers are fighting it out over a monument to British Empire heroes telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08…
The Bayeux Tapestry has made it safely to Britain. Now comes the really difficult part: getting it back to France.
The 900-year-old, 230ft-long masterpiece could be damaged by even minor twisting or pulling. Experts have just over a year to work out how to return it safely ⬇️
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The Bayeux Tapestry is now safely in Britain after an extremely painstaking and delicate operation
The problem is - nobody knows how to pick it up again
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Those responsible for transporting the extremely fragile Bayeux Tapestry staged a “training camp” to prepare to drive over Britain’s potentially destructive potholes telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08…