The Guardian view on the Royal Academy: reframing a bloody past | Editorial

The Royal Academy is examining the part it has played in Britain’s history of slavery and empire – and the usual carping suspects will not be pleasedVery recent visitors from Mars may not know of the regular attacks on the National Trust for being “woke”, but the rest of us have heard plenty. The trust’s latest onslaught on British values has something to do with the lack of butter in the scones. Never mind that they have been made like this for years; Tory MPs and