- “Virtual GP appointments are a form of ‘digital exclusion’, NHS chiefs admit” – Health bosses warn the NHS has not yet found the “right balance” between online and in-person care after the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Some primary school pupils unable to say their names, teachers report” – Children are arriving at school unable to say their own names or drink from cups, the Times Education Commission’s final report will reveal this week.
- “Beijing launches massive new coronavirus crackdown” – The outbreak of nearly 200 cases linked to Beijing’s Heaven Supermarket Bar, which reopened last week, shows the challenge facing China to maintain its ‘Zero-Covid’ policy, reports the Mail.
- “Yet more ‘vaccine success’” – If this is vaccine success, what would vaccine failure look like, asks Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia.
- “COVID-19 and the Will to Power” – At every turn, the story of the world’s response to Covid is the story of power, says Michael Senger on his Substack page – the perception of it, the exercise of it, the fear of it, the abuse of it, and the pathological lengths to which some will go to obtain it.
- “Don’t be complacent, another Covid wave is coming. Here’s how we can manage it” – Professor Devi Sridhar writing in the Guardian has come a long way from her Zero Covid fanaticism and is now positioning herself as a champion of ‘living with Covid’, even rejecting the use of face masks.
- “The Economic Meltdown Has Roots in Lockdown” – It was not the poor, the working classes, or the person on the street who did this. These policies were not an act of nature. They were imposed by men and women with unchecked administrative power under the mistaken belief that they had it all under control, writes Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone.
- “The Nine Great Covid Mysteries” – The latest insights from the Swiss Doctor, including on virus origins and the Nordic paradox.
- “Vox: Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world” – Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That? on Vox contributor Kelsey Piper describing her realisation that climate anxiety is a far worse threat to the welfare of kids than climate change.
- “When the Islamists came for Cineworld” – Luke Perry in Bournbrook writes that we are a nation that has already cut itself into tiny little pieces and a common culture and ideal is nowhere to be found.
- “The Rwanda policy: who runs this country?” – Brendan O’Neill writes for Spiked that the revolt against the Government’s immigration policy (which he personally thinks is misguided) is alarmingly anti-democratic.
- “Church of England’s senior leaders slam Home Office’s Rwanda plan” – The Mail reports that the increasingly outspoken church leaders, including Archbishop Justin Welby, slammed the Home Office’s Rwanda proposals despite judges ruling the first flights to Kigali can go ahead.
- “The Good White Man Roster” – Freddie deBoer with a database of “progressive white men who are thirsty for credit”.
- “Film bans are less about offence, more ‘community leaders’ showing who’s boss” – Pulling The Lady of Heaven from cinemas is a win for self-appointed gatekeepers of Islam, writes Kenan Malik in the Guardian.
- “James Patterson says alleged job struggles for white men is ‘another form of racism’” – The Independent reports that the author has drawn criticism from the woke crowd for saying it’s racist that it is harder for white men like him to get “writing gigs”.
- “The kids aren’t alright” – Adults shouldn’t be misled by ‘child-led’ fads to capitulate to teen ideology, writes Hadley Freeman in UnHerd.
- “We need to stop importing America’s racial mania” – There is nothing just or sane about ‘reckoning’ with historical ills we had nothing to do with, argues Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “Buried in the Online Safety Bill is a new offence. If you say something intended to cause someone ‘extreme psychological distress’ and you don’t have a reason for doing so, you can be jailed for two years” – Watch Toby in conversation with Free Speech Nation host Andrew Doyle.
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The History curriculum seems to have been unanchored for years. My kids spent more time studying Native Americans, which was interesting but not overly relevant to their place in the world. The history of medicine, pretty dull, and needle making. They’d have preferred Kings & Queens, wars & battles.
Sorry, don’t give a flying fig what BBC “historian” David Olusoga thinks what should be taught in history lessons.
Completely irrelevant.
Stick to making your 2nd rate historical “documentaries” for your metropolitan elite friends to fawn over.
TLDR: What a load of shite!
“Britain’s relationship with history not fit for purpose”, say someone born in Nigeria.
The Just for Oil activists have been “bigged up” by millionaire F1 racing driver Sir Lewis Hamilton
” I love that people are fighting for the planet and we need more people like them”, he said without the slightest hint of irony, sarcasm or embarrassment.
Obviously, millionaire Knights of the realm who travel by private jet and make their money burning enough fuel in a few minutes that would last a normal bloke a year are the people with their finger on the pulse of the nation.
Unlike the person stuck on the motorway behind these sat down clowns getting their tea and cake from the coppers.
David, Sir Lewis…..any chance of just shutting the f*** up!?
Maybe a history lesson on post Independence Nigeria and the Biafra war of the 1960’s, when thousands of people starved due a blockade by the Nigerian government? What about the complicity of African tribal leaders who sold their captives into servitude to the Arab nations, other African nations and the transatlantic slave trade?
That’s the thing about Olusoga and his like though; the narrative they would wish to promote is more unbalanced and biased than the traditional one.
Love him or loathe him, a proper historian like David Starkey, (or the guy Neil Oliver had on GB News Saturday, apologies, forgot his name), would rightly explain that British history is much more nuanced and complicated than simply “empire bad”.
People like Olusoga for example will never mention the fact that in effectively ending the slave trade in the face of opposition from other colonial powers, Britain suffered a huge detriment in terms of lives and money.
That’s before you even get into the aspect of judging people’s actions and morals from the past in the context of the present. Zeitgeist is everything.
It isn’t as if there has only ever been the British Empire in history. Rome, Greece, Persian, Chinese, Dutch, French, etc.
I have visited Kenya twice, in the mid 1970s and the early 1990s. They were like two different countries. The first visit was to a prosperous country with improving infrastructure and a booming agricultural sector. The second visit had none of the above; everything was falling apart.
An editorial in ‘The Nation’ contrasted the states of repair in a number of ex British colonies, including Kenya, all of which had fallen into disrepair since independence was granted. In summary they asked if the British could come back.
“He argues that generations of pupils have been routinely brainwashed by teachers determined to ignore Britain’s ignoble past and exclusively focus on the virtuous episodes in our national story. This, of course, is an inaccurate characterisation.”
It’s not an “inaccurate characterisation.” It’s a massive lie.
I note that of the ten children in the picture (from the current remake of the Midwich Cuckoos, set in a small English village), maybe four of them are white. It’s utterly, utterly relentless.
To be in the correct proportion for the UK, at least 8 of them should be white.
I live near a rural primary school. All the pupils are white.
Your area must obviously be urgently decolonised by mass immigration of politically appropriate people of colour from distant countries!
:->
Don’t worry it’ll happen sooner rather than later!
History lessons should be about history. Not about teaching contemporary morals with the help of values judgements about episodes of the past selected because they lend themselves to the kind of value judgements one would like to make. Someone who’s talking about Britains ignoble past is no historian, just a contemporary wokeist singing the well known You’re either black or dreck! tune in front of a semi-historic scenery.
To address one of Olusoga’s actual points: He claims that British history teachers had failed
him (and – by extension – other black Britons) by teaching him a lot more about cotton mills in Lancashire than about the fate of the people who worked on the plantations this cotton came from. He then incorrectly states that these were living and dying in chains and tries to establish (by allusion) British historical guilt because the owners of these cotton mills profitted from operating them. That these were a tiny minority of the people associated with the cotton industry while majority were poor workers and their families living in conditions which were – at best – slightly better than those of the enslaved plantations workers in the American south is something he conveniently ignores.
The profited from it is classical wokery: The cotton mill owners of the 19th century didn’t source their raw material according to current standards for ethically acting businesses! That is, they didn’t chose to go out of business for not having any raw material to work with. Shame unto them! This kind of retrofitting the present onto the past is completely inappropriate for a historian.
His main argument is just nonsense: Cotton plantations in the southern states of the USA are not part of British history but part of American history. He again shows himself as died-in-the-wool (BLM) wokey here: According to him, it’s inappropriate that British history is taught in British schools, they should be teaching American history instead, in particular, the (fairly small) part of American history which the BLMists like most because it’s their very raison d’etre.
Well said!!
Thank you. But I think it’s actually pretty clumsy. But logically valid.
Of course school wills never teach the present day and historical evil of the Chinese Communist Party
Dr. Steve Mosher: ‘500 Million’ Chinese Killed By The ‘Totalitarian’ CCP
https://rumble.com/v1aujnk-dr.-steve-mosher-500-million-chinese-killed-by-the-totalitarian-ccp.html
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Too late Wesley.
If it isn’t wokery it is some other current left wing fad. its been goung on for decades. Even teachers and lecturers are frightened to raise a voice of complaint.
David Olusoga? Born in Lagos, Nigeria – I’ll take no lectures from him, he, they. When in Rome……..
Sorry never heard of either of these guys but I know which one I would prefer teaching generations of children in this country and no it’s not the BBC man. But then nothing good seems to come out of the BBC nowadays.
Good article Mr Smith keep up the good work you should join forces with Calvin Robinson also a fine educationalist with a sound mind.