An alarming cultural and political craze in the closing years of this decade has been the enthusiasm for the kind of virtue signalling expressed in demands to sanitise history

The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, an 1888 recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and the original cast recording of Oklahoma! Are to be enshrined the US’s registry of historic sound.

Two-thirds of Britons do not know when the Second World War ended and nearly half have no idea what year England won the soccer World Cup, a survey showed today.