I’ve always been someone who forcefully pursued free speech. So disagreements whilst teaching – over trans-gender indoctrination – didn’t scare me, however annoying and exhausting they were. I’m not claiming to be brave; I didn’t feel unnerved by the disputes and cold-shouldering. Depressed, occasionally – which is another reason the Free Speech Union is so […]
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Truth is now a crime. Little illustrates this more than a verdict passed in Verden Regional Court, Northern Germany, earlier this week. Marie Therese Kaiser, a budding young politician, was found guilty of using government statistics to point to a problem that officialdom would rather not talk about. As the Taliban took down the Pride flag from
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(Photograph: Allan warren, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Social media is a transport device. Scroll through your feed and you will be whisked away to join your friends on holiday or at dinner (why didn’t they invite me, you may wonder). It might take you to some far-flung land where news is being
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There is an amusing message flitting around Facebook. I have copied and pasted it below: For those of you who cannot cope with fuzzy images, it reads: ‘For those of my generation who do not, and cannot, comprehend why Facebook exists: I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.
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Eugenics is the new black. A bill to authorise medically assisted suicide is being introduced in the Scottish Parliament. The establishment appears fully behind it. In the Daily Telegraph, Lord Jonathan Sumption, a former member of our supreme court, backs the idea “on balance” as being “morally justified”. In the Times, Matthew Parris, that weathervane
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Given the recent report on record school expulsions, this must be what outsiders wonder most about. It certainly was when I thought about teaching. You’d see youths lurking on buses or outside McDonald’s and think: ‘Christ, imagine being stuck in a classroom with that shower. You couldn’t pay me to!’ It’s not helped by unrealistic
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Did you perchance unintentionally sleep late or get an hour behind time this Easter Sunday morning? If so, you will probably be one of hundreds of thousands of others who likely also forgot to advance their timepieces and did much the same – all as a result of the UK’s curious official bi-annual clock-changing
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Intelligence is no more than a leg muscle. It may be thin and scrawny, but it can still be useful for certain scenarios like piano playing. It may be huge and bulging – useful for sprinting or scrummaging. It may be toned and sinewy – useful for ice-skating or ballet dancing. The fact is that
The main purpose historically of the Conservative Party is to conserve. Rather like the RSPB is supposed to protect birds the Conservative Party is supposed to protect Britain. Protecting Britain involves defending our island against its enemies, which requires us to have a strong defence and a series of alliances with friendly nations. Britain now
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I have never worried about climate change because I was sure that humans would do something irredeemably stupid long before any possible consequences of a small change in the atmosphere. And lo, here they are doing countless irredeemably stupid things all at once. From a vast and expanding field of idiotic activities let us mention four forces,
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