The UK government has criticised graduate students at the University of Oxford who removed a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, claiming it represented a colonial past that many found offensive.
The move comes as students across the country have played a leading role in protests against historical figures with links to the British empire or slavery.
The queen “has become the latest victim of cancel culture”, or ostracism of those whose opinions are deemed unacceptable, the right-leaning Daily Telegraph wrote on Wednesday.
Graduate students at Magdalen College took down the…
