JTP, i don't see anything wrong with teaching British history, or being patriotic either, and whether you like it or not, and we may be a more mixed country now, don't see that being proud of one's country is anything to be ashamed of. agree to some extent about corporal and capital punishment, but there is nothing that's an effective deterrent in schools, nor in the criminal world. and the idea having to check everything you say in the name of political correctness is surely absurd.
I am ashamed of the people who do this sort of thing, they are thieves and vandals and if caught should go to jail.