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First Day at School

Do you remember your first day at school? I have fragments of memories, but one memory which is vivid is crying bitterly as my mother left and being comforted by the teacher who sat me on her knees and told me that my mother would be returning that afternoon to collect me. It is moments […]

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Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen Is the Latest Victim of the Global Ban on the Right

Marine Le Pen, former chair of the French Right-populist Rassemblement National and the leading opposition politician in France, has been convicted by a Paris court of embezzling public funds. She has received a four-year prison sentence, two of which are suspended and two of which are to be served under house arrest with an ankle monitor.

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Father's love

The Shameful Story of How Australia’s Family Court Was Weaponised Against Men

This year is the 50th anniversary of Australia’s Family Court. That’s hardly cause for celebration. Over the last half century, what was originally designed as a ‘helping court’ became the frontline of feminism’s gender wars and thus one of the country’s most hated institutions. This led to dozens of Government inquiries and attempts at reform which

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End of the road

Unsustainability

Welcome to the New World Disorder. It is a great joy to see the managed decline of democracy being interrupted. The new administration in the USA doesn’t do sanctimonious bullshit. I remember at a press conference in his first term, Donald Trump was asked whether a certain group of people might be offended by the

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Censorship

Silencing Dissent: How Restricting Online Anonymity Threatens Democracy 

On January 18 2025, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez addressed an audience of the most powerful figures across politics and business at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In his speech, Sanchez called for measures to end online anonymity, stating that European governments are permitting people to roam freely on social networks without linking their

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Greater Manchester Police

Blasphemy Laws via the Front Door

Police have publicly named a man and disclosed his address after he was charged with allegedly burning pages of the Koran, despite the clear and immediate risks posed to those accused of ‘blasphemy’ by radical Islamists. The 47-year-old has pleaded guilty to causing racially and religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, and distress after setting fire to the

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