News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Labour has appointed Becky Francis, an intersectional feminist, to rewrite the national curriculum, which it will then force all schools to teach. Prepare for even more woke claptrap to be shoehorned into the classroom.
Dulwich Prep London is ditching Native American tribe names for mythical creatures in its house system over concerns of "cultural appropriation".
Sallust underscores the profound impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on parenting skills, evident in schools like Telford's Lantern Academy, where basic communication and potty training have become necessary.
Three years ago, a Yorkshire teacher was suspended and went into hiding due to death threats for showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. He's still in hiding today.
Once the golden boy of UK primary education, Mike Fairclough was the only headteacher to question the vaccinating and masking of children – and found himself being investigated by counter-terrorism agencies.
In a brutal resignation letter, Suella Braverman has accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of having "manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver" on key policies and said he is "incapable of doing so".
Why are schools so desperate to keep what they're teaching kids about sex a secret from parents? That's the question Clare Page is asking as she takes the authorities to court to force them to be transparent.
In America, a woke version of mathematics is catching on in schools, where different races can get different solutions, kids connect with cauliflowers and there is no wrong answer.
An academic who has criticised the teaching of “white privilege” in schools has been no-platformed from an education conference over claims she would make other speakers feel “unsafe”.
From hospitals and schools to energy and infrastructure, Britain has been chronically mismanaged for decades, says Professor Angus Dalgleish. And the worst thing is no one is held to account.
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