The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

When the BLM movement spilt out from America into Britain in May and June 2020 the statue of Churchill in Parliament Square immediately became one of the focal points for protestors. The statue was repeatedly graffitied and otherwise defaced. At one stage, a BLM banner was taped around the statue’s waist and the statesman’s name was crossed out with black spray paint. Then, beneath “Churchill,” the words “was a racist” were added in more black paint. It was in reporting this protest that the BBC ran the headline “27 Police Officers Injured during Largely Peaceful Anti-racism Protests.” A headline only bettered in our time by CNN, a month later, having its reporter standing in front of a burning city with the tagline “Fiery, but Mostly Peaceful Protests.”