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Craig Simpson
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Arts Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph @Telegraph Feel free to get in touch: [email protected]
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    Feb 16
    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
    Battle to save the crumbling palace of General Gordon’s Last Stand
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    Jul 29, 2022
    New: Oxford University has agreed to return its Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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    Jun 13, 2024
    Scores of actresses turn down roles in play critical of JK Rowling's gender views Play originally titled TERF C*** features characters like a fictionalised Emma Watson remonstrating with Rowling But these female roles have not been filled
    Scores of actresses turn down roles in play critical of JK Rowling’s gender views
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    Apr 15, 2019
    Singing to a dying building. Devastating tribute to Notre Dame, the spirit of Paris, and France.
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    Oct 19, 2024
    NEW: New: Sir Keir Starmer has removed a portrait of William Shakespeare from No 10 The Bard’s image is the latest painting of a great national figure to be taken down under the Prime Minister
    Starmer removes Shakespeare portrait from No 10
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    Aug 18, 2025
    Kate Baker, of LGB Alliance, told The Telegraph: “The TQ+ lobby corrupts everything it touches. This year there will be no winner of the Polari Prize, no celebration of fantastic LGB authors, no one’s career boosted."
    Book prize ‘paused’ after trans backlash over gender-critical nominee
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    Oct 6, 2022
    Shakespeare's Globe has apologised for "offence caused" by a "moment of misjudgement", after sharing a poem directed at "terfs" Poem was used to promote I, Joan play about non-binary Joan of Arc, and has been deleted
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    Jan 17, 2023
    The Science Museum has dismantled a trans-inclusive display on sex and gender following complaints it was pushing “propaganda” and not biology.
    Science Museum removes trans-inclusive display after ‘propaganda’ complaints
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    Dec 18, 2022
    NEW: Writers leaving the Society of Authors after it was engulfed in a row of over gender ideology now offered protection at a rival union that has vowed to defend free speech
    Writers join rival union that aims to defend free speech after trans row
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    Craig Simpson
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    Aug 1, 2023
    New: Libraries across the country are being advised to prevent LGBT people seeing “offensive” gender-critical books Tips for council libraries suggest hosting drag queen events and limiting copies of “transphobic books” by gender-critical authors
    Librarians told to hide books by gender-critical authors
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    Craig Simpson
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    Jun 17, 2021
    Royal Academy pulls artist’s work from gift shop over ‘transphobic’ views Jess de Wahls wrote in a blog in 2019 that ‘transwomen are biologically male’
    Royal Academy pulls artist’s work from gift shop over ‘transphobic’ views
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    Jul 31, 2023
    Revealed: Gender-critical books have been hidden from view at public libraries by “tinpot censors” working for a Labour council
    Gender-critical books hidden by ‘tinpot censor’ librarians
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    Craig Simpson
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    Aug 15, 2025
    Tracy Edwards consulting lawyers after cast members in a musical based on her life story used their platform to stage a pro-trans fundraiser.
    Sailor attacks musical about her life after actors hijack ending with trans protest
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    Craig Simpson
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    Oct 27, 2022
    Eventbrite ‘silencing women’ by pulling ticket sales for gender-critical event
    Eventbrite ‘silencing women’ by pulling ticket sales for gender-critical event
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