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What we learned in 2022

The year has turned, Old Father Time has passed by, and Sadiq Khan has squandered London council tax payers’ money on sending the most expensive virtue signal in Europe up in smoke. Nothing was missed out as fireworks paid tribute to LGBT issues, Ukraine, climate change (I assume these were low emission fireworks) and the […]

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End of the fairytale

TNC youth correspondent, Jack Watson, gives an update on the depressing level of censorship at Christmas.   I recently watched Free Speech Nation, with Andrew Doyle, and learned that The Pogues’ Christmas classic (Fairytale of New York) is to be censored once again. I am a huge fan of the hit, in fact it must be

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Playing it too safe

I heard the other day from a colleague that a Christmas tree at his place of work had only been half decorated—from the bottom up—because colleagues were insisting on a cherry picker to decorate the upper reaches of the tree safely. I have no idea how high the tree was but being an indoor one

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HELP! I’ve been ‘mis-countried’ – Who’s going to resign?

Before Covid-19 wiped out the whole population of Wuhan I spent five weeks there, courtesy of a Hubei Province Government scholarship for ‘prestigious international scholars’; which was nice. I had several student helpers assigned to me and one of the junior members of staff—‘Rocky’ was his English name—coordinated them. I spent a lot of time

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