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Foreign Office calendar lists 110 awareness dates but omits Remembrance Sunday
A Foreign Office calendar for 2026 lists 110 awareness days, weeks and months, including observances related to gender identity, sexuality, mental health and wellbeing. It includes Remembrance Day on 11 November but omits Remembrance Sunday, as well as D-Day and VE Day, prompting criticism from a Conservative shadow minister.
The calendar is marked “official” and includes four transgender observance days, two intersex days and 20 dates relating to mental health and neurodiverse conditions. It also lists Flexible Working Day, International Pronouns Day and the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. The article says the Cabinet Office recognised 21 awareness dates in 2025, compared with 25 at the Department for Education, 12 at the Home Office and none at the Wales Office; the Foreign Office said it has supported national remembrance commemorations for several decades.
In short
- The Foreign Office’s 2026 calendar lists 110 awareness dates.
- It includes Remembrance Day but omits Remembrance Sunday.
- The department says it has supported national remembrance for decades.
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The case for
An official calendar can usefully recognise a wide range of communities and issues, helping staff plan communications and showing that the department takes inclusion, wellbeing and international observances seriously. Listing Remembrance Day while omitting Remembrance Sunday may reflect the calendar’s purpose or selection criteria rather than a lack of respect, and the Foreign Office says it has supported national remembrance commemorations for decades.
The case against
A government department’s official calendar should give clear visibility to nationally significant commemorations as well as awareness dates, and omitting Remembrance Sunday, D-Day and VE Day can reasonably be seen as a poor choice of priorities. With 110 entries, critics may argue that space or scope does not explain the omissions, and that inclusion should not come at the expense of marking events central to the country’s shared history.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Revealed: Woke calendar for diplomats that has 110 awareness dates – but misses off Remembrance Sunday”.