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Quelle surprise. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has passed a „vote of no confidence” in Michael Gove and the new head of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw, accusing them of failing to improve education and not treating teachers and parents with respect. Exhibit A in the case for the prosecution is the new National Curriculum,… Continuă lectura Gove condemned by teaching union for putting knowledge at the heart of the National Curriculum. They’d prefer children to be taught how to walk

There’s a nauseating new trend in campaigning circles: the exploitation of suicides for political gain. All sorts of activists are indulging in this most ghoulish political behaviour. They’re claiming that the thing they hate and campaign against – whether it cuts to welfare benefits, student debt, or Daily Mail articles – is causing people to… Continuă lectura Memo to all radical campaigners: please stop exploiting suicidal people for political ends

Germany’s Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich put it well when he said of EU migration: If people in Germany feel that their openness is being abused and our welfare system is looted then there will be legitimate anger. In the UK, EU free movement is effectively one controversial issue, Europe, laid on top of an even… Continuă lectura EU migration has to be managed better, but overall, it has benefited the UK and Europe

David Cameron has given a speech on welfare and immigration, and as always when a Tory talks tough on the subject, it has been panned by the commentariat of Left and Right. That’s because this is a subject that cuts across the political divides. Various opinion polls attest that the real division over migration is… Continuă lectura Mass immigration and the housing market – two Ponzi schemes that benefit the wealthy

Sir John Beddington, the government’s retiring Chief Scientist has been doing the media rounds today, telling anyone who’ll listen how „Climate Change” is still a serious problem about which we should all worry greatly. Has he looked out of the window recently Looking out of my window just now, I noticed that the Northamptonshire landscape… Continuă lectura Global warming: if only we’d listened to the experts, eh

So, another week, another bad week to be an immigrant in the UK. On Friday, we had Nick Clegg calling for £1,000 „security bonds” for immigrants – a policy sure to put off poor legitimate migrants, like students or holidaymakers, but equally one that sounds great to the sort of people who want to disappear… Continuă lectura The farce of UK immigration policy: letting in parasites, turning away entrepreneurs

As opposition to the euro continues to build within the eurozone, Germany, the motor of the eurozone—frankly, the only thing holding it all together—is not immune. Recently, a new political organization has formed in Germany called Alternative for Germany. So far the group is only a collection of like-minded euro-skeptic German intellectuals with a politically… Continuă lectura Eurozone Crisis Creates Another Challenge for Merkel

North Korea has been making headlines for its threats of preemptive nuclear attacks on the United States. In addition to North Korea’s belligerent military actions, the international community cannot turn a blind eye to the regime’s appalling record of human rights violations and its economic stagnation resulting from three generations of dictatorial reign. While some… Continuă lectura North Korea: A Neglected Human Rights Crisis

       Many people in the UK are alarmed at the rate of increase in state debt. We are worried because we fear that we will be responsible for paying the interest and repaying the capital one day. We do not want the state to 0verextend us, at the very time when the private sector has… Continuă lectura As a voter in a democracy, am I responsible for the debts of the state?

Universities have long been considered hotbeds of liberalism. Radical protests, dreary PC speech codes, far-left professors and outright attacks on conservatism are not just common but expected. Academia has become so stridently left-wing, faculty views even a single ember of center-right thought as a dangerous wildfire. For the past three years, Stanford University had allowed… Continuă lectura Stanford Kills Popular Course on Free Market