- “Every adult in Britain could get their first Covid jab by early June after surge in vaccine supply” – Vaccine roll out well-ahead of schedule according to MailOnline
- “Vaccinated people are 30% less likely to pass on Covid after their first dose” – MailOnline reports on a Scottish NHS study which suggests that vaccination cuts transmission
- “Goldman boss wants all staff in the office by the end of summer” – The end is in sight for working at home for staff at Goldman Sachs, the Times reports. It’s still some months off though
- “Rishi Sunak says return to normal office working after pandemic will ‘probably not’ happen” – Rishi reckons that there will probably not be a full return to the office working of old, the Telegraph reports
- “Vaccines for all over-40s by Easter after ‘bumper boost’ to supplies” – The vaccine rollout is ahead of schedule and accelerating, according to the Telegraph
- “Citigroup offers London staff Covid tests as part of back-to-office plan” – Citigroup has started sending Covid tests to employees and contractors who have started coming into the bank’s Canary Wharf headquarters, City AM reports. They’ll surely be delighted
- “Entire year of 230 students is sent home from school after positive Covid tests less than a week into return to school” – The whole of year 10 at Budmouth Academy, Dorset was sent home after an unspecified number of positive tests, reports MailOnline
- “Sarah Everard vigil may still go ahead despite police ruling it out, organisers claim” – Sky News says Everard vigil likely to go ahead after a judge refused to intervene in a police decision not to allow a gathering
- “Boris Johnson’s UK virus strategy needs people to catch the disease” – A flashback to a year ago, when the strategy was reportedly to let people catch the disease and develop immunity
- “How much longer can the law be used to stop us doing things that are low risk, even safe?” – There are serious questions to be asked, says the Telegraph, “about the necessity or morality or quashing our basic civil liberties”
- “From masks to reopening schools, the adults who are supposed to speak up for children have failed spectacularly” – Most of the adults and organisations who are supposed to speak up for children have failed, writes Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph
- “SAGE’s covert coup Part Two – Project Fear” – The second instalment of Sonia Elijah’s investigation into SAGE for the Conservative Woman. Here she looks into the subcommittees
- “I wish I’d shouted louder about early lockdown, says Maths Professor” – A Times interview with Professor Adam Kleczkowski. In 2012, he wrote a paper entitled “Controlling epidemic spread by social distancing: Do it well or not at all”
- “The cruelty of the house party ban” – Writing in Spiked, Robert Jackman highlights an omission in Boris’s roadmap: the £10,000 fine for house parties isn’t scheduled for removal
- “Covid Regulations accused had right of silence” – The Law Society Gazette reports on the case of Keith Neale, who was suspected of breaching the Coronavirus Regulations. The Court ruled that he was under no obligation or duty to give the police his name and address
- “Covid rates crashing as vaccines make an impact” – A video update revealing the latest data from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study from Professor Tim Spector
- “Do vaccines cure Long Covid?” – A significant proportion of Long Covid sufferers have found that their symptoms lessen or disappear upon vaccination, according to this episode of the BBC’s Health Check
- “EU countries halt Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout over blood clots” – A report from Politico on the suspension of the AstraZeneca jab in a number of countries in Europe
- “What inapt pandemic response is doing to our societies” – “What we’ve had in the last year are mostly stupid government regulations”, writes Joakim Book at AIER, “and people sheepishly internalising them as if they were handed down by a prophet on stone tablets”
- “The brutalisation of college students during lockdowns” – AIER report by Jack Nicastro and Phillip W. Magness on how US students were hung out to dry by college administrators “acting responsibly”
- “Lessons of the Long Covid Year” – An editorial in the Wall Street Journal marking a year of Covid. Lesson number one: “Lockdowns made the pandemic suffering far worse than necessary”
- “Companies that rode pandemic boom get a reality check” – Investors were flocking to companies like Zoom, but they are drifting away elsewhere, the New York Times reports
- “Pastor Coates has spent weeks in prison for a crime that is not punishable with jail time” – John Calpay writes in the PostMillennial about Pastor Coates, who is in prison in Canada for “a provincial infraction that is not punishable by jail time”
- “Did The Shutdowns Save Lives? A Year Later, Statistical Analysis Suggests Not” – Chuck DeVore examines the data and finds no evidence that lockdowns did anything but “deepen the economic suffering, increase suicides, and prevent lifesaving medical tests and treatments”
- “Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee” – Watch the physician speak about treatments for Covid, and how there was a surprising lack of interest in this from government and media
- Andrew Neil holds forth about Harry and Meghan on Spectator TV
'What they have to say is of no importance, and they talk about many things which they have no qualifications to talk about. It would be best if they faded into obscurity'
— The Spectator (@spectator) March 12, 2021Andrew Neil on Harry and Meghan
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Sounds like a good idea in theory.
In practice rhe only way parents can know what their children are being taught in school is going to school with them.
In any case, the solution as almost always is freeing the school market. Give parents vouchers and let then chose the school for their children.
Indeed
I know I will probably irritate the redoubtable RW but I would make the national curriculum advisory or abolish it, privatise or disband Ofsted and allow anyone to set up a school with no legal constraints on what can be taught and who can be a teacher*
*I can see a problem here though because now we have a multicultural society there would be ghetto schools where people are taught to hate us
That would condemn some children to be failures in life, the ones that can’t pass GCSE and other exams, even if they emerge with enhanced life skills.
No I don’t think so. Apparently 80% of secondary schools in England are academies with some freedom in the matter of curriculum the main reason for the important rise in academic standards in recent years.
That simply needs to be extended with the use of vouchers, then the whole department of education can be shut.
All schools completely independent.
Why?
Hasn’t our Toby set up some free schools? Does that mean they don’t teach this indictrinating, toxic bilge? I actually don’t know much about free schools…
He has indeed (he is sometimes maligned but gets off his arse and does stuff instead of just moaning) and I think they are still going and I am sure they don’t teach the bilge. However the parents who (presumably) pay for those schools don’t get a discount on their tax money, and the schools still get inspected by Ofsted and have to employ “qualified” teachers – so they could get pushed to cover things in the national curriculum that they would rather not.
I think the upcoming education bill intends to remove that freedom.
Katherine Birbalsingh, who we’ve encountered here in the past and who gets excellent results from a non-selective intake, is making a lot of noise about this on various podcasts and has apparently been invited to visit Bridget Phillipson.
Whether or not they change their plans remains to be seen.
Centrally planned education is a terrible Idea.
I see climan beat me to it
How depressing.
Yes you need somebody like this lady as Education Secretary really, as she knows what’s what and her success speaks for itself. Pigs will fly first, of course.
They don’t select for competence unfortunately.
Tories Demand Right for Parents to Know What Children Are Taught in Schools
The Tory wing of the Uniparty could have enshrined this in law, while they were in power, with a Parental Right to Know Act. Then the current marxo-fascist anti-white government would have been forced to repeal it, and the Anti-white Party (aka The Labour Party) would be forced to explain why they think the government should own the nation’s children.
Yes, they are having all sorts of good ideas that they didn’t have while they were in power. I don’t believe a word of it. They will say anything to get back in to government, but if they get there it will be the same old fake Tories.
Too true.
Why would we trust a Tory Party led by Olukemi Adegoke and is full of the equivalents of RINOs?
Here is how it is done by the excellent Katharine Birbalsingh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-hHSDseWDo
But the devil is in the detail, it would be very difficult to provide parents with full transparency, even giving them textbooks and exercises would not deter devious activist teachers.
You know she has done great for her school when the New Statesman writes this:
“The school is only marginally less hated than Eton, …”
What a great badge of honour!
I heard her on planet normal last week – the basic common sense she spoke was very refreshing. Schools are meritocracy’s, aiming high raises kids standards, and their expectations. Success breeds success… all positive, ‘let’s strive to improve ourselves by working hard’ thinking vs let’s do as little as possible
Any teacher propagating marxo-fascist claptrap is either deluded or evil and contributes to the ongoing disintegration of society.
When will they realise they had 14 years to do this but failed.
I was lucky I came to this country at primary school age and even then in the early 1980s they started pushing this progressive crap. The headmaster called my mother in and asked if I had lived in countries where women were subjugated. Honestly if I had a son of school age I would have to intervene to save him. I would find other traditional parents and make a go of it. |I am glad that they never beat the traditional ways out of me now given the morbid state of British culture.
Gwendolene is rushing to try to deal with an overload of pupils for schools this month as a result of Rachel from Accounts driving private schools out of business and forcing parents to pull children out on cost grounds. Who could possibly have seen this coming? Oh, yes, most people.
Parents having the right to know what their children are being taught in school is pretty meaningless unless they also have the right to change what’s taught e.g. via the curriculum in each school being voted on by the parents of that school’s pupils similar to the US system of local/district school boards being directly elected.
I fully support parents who home school their children to reduce the chance of them being indoctrinated but for a lot of parents this isn’t practical.
Come on ….. they only had 14 years to do this. It obviously wasn’t a priority …. unlike “gay marriage”.