#OTD in 1942, North Africa. A member from the Royal Tank Regiment examining the graves of German soldiers. #WW2 #HISTORY

We should ditch nasty old-fashioned exams and let students design their own assessments, according to the latest hair-brained scheme by Left-wing educationalists. Steven Tucker gives it both barrels in the Daily Sceptic. dailysceptic.org/2024/09/09/rad…

'...the chances that she wins are pretty high.' Olivia Utley explains why Kemi Badenoch's support amongst Conservative members could see her win the race for leader of the party.

You missed a bit: The richest 1% pay 29% of all U.K. tax revenue. When your government forces them to leave Britain, what will you do to fill the £300 billion gap?

Today we launch The David Martin Jones Memorial Prize. We are looking to reward essays that carry forward David’s legacy of truth-telling, shrewd analysis and sceptical dissent. Please share with potential applicants. cieo.org.uk/research/the-d…

Just a reminder folks that there are really good people from an ethnic minority, who are patriots and love our country.

"University students are too scared to speak their minds in seminars because they fear ostracism by their peers, Oxford dons have claimed.” [freespeechunion.org/students-scare…] If any institution should be a safe space for freedom of speech and the expression of challenging opinions and

In the past few weeks there have been four significant events in the trans rights debate, as the effects of the Cass Review snowball. My analysis for The Telegraph Kathleen Stock Maya Forstater telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/0…

What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Self-censoring is now a fact of academic life and those who pretend there’s no problem simply aren’t looking. University students are too scared to speak their minds in seminars because they fear ostracism by their peers, Oxford dons have said. freespeechunion.org/students-scare…

Peter Oborne has lost the plot. He thinks Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick are 'far right' and will turn the Tories into a ‘neo-Nazi’ party. How did a once-insightful, right-leaning journalist become such a shrill, anti-Tory bore?, asks Tim Black buff.ly/3TnUjgZ

Thank you Tonia Antoniazzi. The HEFoS Act does not extend the law, it just provides a mechanism by which Universities could be held to account for breaching their legal responsibilities. That's all. Seems hardly controversial....

The count so far (of employment tribunals involving secular gender critical claimants and including full admissions of liability as wins) 13 wins 3 settled by agreement 1 unsuccessful claim 2 ongoing appeals Not bad.

I'm in the mood for some of this. Good evening.

Germany announces plans to introduce checks on all borders! Derek Scally in the Irish Times reports that “Germany has informed the European Commission that it will impose border checks on all its national land borders for six months from next Monday. Social Democratic (SPD)

I would have headlined it “There is now very little doubt that Covid leaked from a lab”. There’s always a smidgen of doubt about everything. My spiked article on why scientists won’t debate an accident a thousand times worse than Bhopal. spiked-online.com/2024/09/10/the…

Rate of UK unemployment falls to 4.1%, down from 4.2% in the previous three months. Sterling rises against dollar. Growth in pay outpaces inflation. As Starmer and Reeves never stop telling us, it really is the most appalling economic inheritance ever.

My Daily Mail piece opposing the abolition of the remaining hereditary element of the House of Lords: dailymail.co.uk/debate/article… #HouseofLords

stephen Nesrine Malik nigel biggar's Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning was dropped by a publisher even though it was pretty uncontroversial. It's inconceivable this would happen to even the most extreme anti-colonial book.

Inglorious Emp Watch🎗 Nesrine Malik nigel biggar Good point I had this kind of action in mind - his type of thinking is the underfunded insurgency battling against the establishment which is trying to close it down - the article has it the other way around