Media commentator Karalee Katsambanis says just as you think this cancel culture “really can’t get any sillier, it does”.
The BBC has removed all vocal performances of the UK historical anthems Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory from the Last Night of the Proms because they might offend some activists by their associations with colonialism and slavery.
Ms Katsambanis said there is a “true irony” behind this push against Rule, Britannia! “The song has been going since 1745, and the word ‘Britannia’ is derived from "Pretannia" which comes from the Greek term that the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus used for the Pretani people, whom the Greeks believed lived in Britain,” she said.
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