Month: April 2023

With salaries for headteachers in British state schools of up to £156,000 a year, only heads in Luxembourg earn more, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development. Starting salaries of £61,000 also trump all but a handful of nations. Which begs the question: Why have members of the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) decided to join the three other teaching unions in calling for strikes? Do they want even more money? The Sunday Times has more. All four unions have rejected the government’s latest pay offer of a £1,000 one-off payment for 2022/23 on top of an earlier pay rise of 5.4% and an average 4.5% pay rise for staff in England in 2023/23. Teachers in Scotland and Wales have already accepted pay offers of up to 14.6%. Unions want their pay offers fully funded by new money from the Treasury, not taken from existing school budgets, which they say means there is less money to run the schools. They claim that just 0.5% of the pay deal they were offered is funded by additional money from the Treasury. So far strike action has shut or partially closed about half of all state schools, but if the three main teaching unions and head teachers walked out on the same day this would cause much wider ...

The Guardian has apologised after publishing an antisemitic cartoon yesterday. It depicted ex-BBC Chairman Richard Sharp with exaggerated Jewish features carrying a basket containing gold coins and a Rishi Sunak puppet.

Meat is crucial for human health, scientists have warned, as they called for an end to the “zealotry” pushing vegetarian and vegan diets.

The late Professor Stephen Schneider warned of a coming ice age in the early 1970s when the global temperature was falling, but switched suddenly to the tenets of global warming when it started to rise.

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

Eugyppius has written a long and thoughtful review of The Real Anthony Fauci. He applauds Robert Kennedy Jr's attention to detail, but says he's guilty of thinking pandemics are a problem that governments can solve.

One of the most powerful teachers union bosses in the U.S. was blasted Thursday on CNN for supporting school lockdowns in the pandemic. A sign of the tide turning?

The EU has issued its first list of platforms that will be subject to 'content moderation' requirements. Surprisingly, they include Amazon, Apple and Wikipedia. What censorship does the EU have planned for them?

How many Covid vaccine-related adverse events are acceptable? Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Two senior individuals working in the pharmaceutical industry address this question, and their answer may surprise you.

Professor David Livermore was in Copenhagen last week at the world's premier infection conference – but nowhere on the agenda were discussions about vaccines, masks or lockdowns.