This followed fury over the National Trust naming almost 100 properties in a report which it said were linked to slavery and colonailism including Churchill’s former home in Kent Chartwell.
The charity, which is tasked with looking after British heritage, then allowed signs to be put up at some properties with health warnings on their historic links.
There was also outrage at the Royal National Maritime Museum in Greenwich wanting to downgrade Nelson’s heroic status.
Meanwhile, the children’s charity Barnardo s provoked the ire of many by putting out advice on “white privilege” to prospective adoptive parents.
Charity rules prevent institutions from being overtly political.
The decision earlier this month by senior civil servants was made despite a direct recommendation from Gavin Williamson to create the award when he was defence secretary in 2019 and referred the matter to the committee.
At the time, Mr Williamson said: “We must never forget their courage and bravery in contributing to keeping their country safe during the Cold War.”
It comes against a history of the HD committee snubbing Britain’s brave veterans by resisting creating medals for those who were not formally recognised.
This included the Arctic Convoy veterans in the Second World War which was only resolved when former Prime Minister David Cameron ordered the committee to create a medal in 2012.
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Nigel Huddleston, the Heritage Minister, told MPs heritage bodies must find a balance between explaining and lecturing. In a debate in the House of Commons, he said: The National Trust, like many heritage institutions, has a responsibility to explain, but also to not lecture.
The watermark proposal for foreign-owned stations has received backing from senior political figures in Britain.
Even though Mr Trump has been declared to have lost the election he is still in office until the next inauguration on January 20 and can issue executive orders to amend the law.
The Sunday Express has learned that the President is expected to meet a senior media executive to discuss the proposal.
According to sources the executive is representing a group media executives who are concerned about Chinese influence in the media which they say is mirrored in growing buy ups of western academia and energy companies.
Tens of thousands of residents in low-infection towns and villages had their hopes of ‘decoupling’ from the tiers of surrounding coronavirus hotspots dashed yesterday.
In a letter to Tory MPs, Matt Hancock said that ‘narrow carve-outs’ of areas with lower rates of infection often leads to them ‘catching up’ or ‘overtaking’ areas with a higher prevalence of Covid.
It comes ahead of a review of the tier system on Wednesday. The Health Secretary’s comments are set to disappoint Tory MPs in areas that come under stringent Tier Two or Three restrictions because of high infection rates elsewhere in their county.