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Churchill statue targeted – again

The statue of Winston Churchill has been defaced again with another piece of graffiti branding the most popular Brit of all time ‘a racist’. It seems the Met police has arrested someone on suspicion of criminal damage.

https://twitter.com/MetPoliceEvents/status/1304102087802990592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Meanwhile, police finally cleared Parliament Square, ten days after the Extinction Rebellion protests first began. But not before a group of naked protestors had chained themselves to the gates of parliament…

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