A rich and influential Tory politician inherited the family riches which it got via slavery starting in the 1600s.

This is more than the statue of a slaveholder: the slaveholders' money, greatly increased over time, is working even today to promote inequality and suffering for poor blacks and poor whites in Britain.

*EU leaders reach deal to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade.*

That comes in range of the sort of change, and speed, that we need.

*UN secretary general urges all countries to declare climate emergencies.*

* Historians could mark 2020 as the moment when Republicans applied the same zeal they have used to attack democracy in advance of elections, through voter suppression and gerrymandering, to attacking democracy on the back end, by trying to deny and overturn the results.*

Republican fanatics are still plotting a coup. Some are asking swing states' legislators to set aside the actual votes and substitute Republican electors; others are trying to convince those congressional delegations to do likewise.

Republicans control those states' legislatures and congressional delegations via gerrymandering (cheating).