The child was nine years old. She was to be the oldest survivor of her murdered family: the terrorists planned to hold her prisoner, after an explosion had killed her father, mother, and 11-year-old brother.

Her survival would depend on submitting to her captor’s religion—she would even need to swear loyalty to their client to convert the whole country to their ideology.

…This is the true face of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators, the 13 men who planned to blow up England’s house of Parliament in a blast which would have reached Westminster Abbey. You wouldn’t learn this from the BBC Schools offering.

As this newspaper recently discovered, BBC “Bitesize” courses have been introducing Fawkes to children as one of a series of “astonishing activists”, ranked alongside Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela as “people who fought racism, campaigned for women’s rights and changed the world forever!” Read more»

Kate Maltby, “The BBC Is Wrong To Treat Guy Fawkes As A Civil Rights Activist: The Villain of the Gunpowder Plot Was An Unscrupulous Terrorist,” The Telegraph (August 1, 20206)

Editor’s Note: The original text of this quotation failed to use an Oxford Comma where it was wanted. We fixed it for The Telegraph and for you, Dear Reader, because we knew its absence would irritate you. Thanks to our UK correspondent, Dr. Allan Girdwood, for alerting us to this editorial.

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