A radical Maoist group called Black Lives Matter has seized control of the public conscience by defining anybody who is not white as a member of an exploited class and white male society as the – albeit unwitting – exploiting class. In consequence if you are white, especially a man, and oppose BLM then you are in danger of being … [Read on]
Margaret McCartney, a GP, has written a moving article in which she despairingly stated, “Bureaucracy and bean-counting are taking the joy out of being a doctor.” The worst of it, she said, is that ”stifling bureaucratic burden.” As I read the piece, I knew I could write the same article, but about the life of today’s parish priest. Diocesan returns. … [Read on]
Silence speaks louder than words. Nonchalantly, Peter Hitchens strolled through the cobbled streets of Oxford University, pursued by a baying mob. Dozens of students, a multicultural mix, were led by a young black woman hollering with menace through a megaphone. A cinematic production would have looked down from high, showing the honey-stone quads and dreaming spires, and the man who … [Read on]
Like many on Wednesday night, I turned on the television to watch Manchester City versus Arsenal to enjoy once again the escapism of football. Inevitably though, reality kicked in. The Black Lives Matter campaign became the political football in the build up coverage from the off, the game itself an almost insignificant background event. Football become a purely political platform. … [Read on]
Has Boris Johnson just played a blinder? News has emerged that the new commission on racial inequalities, which he promised in response to the BLM protests, and which has the distinct whiff of another nail in the coffin of our national culture, might not be all that BLM activists had hoped for. Boris is planning to appoint his old friend … [Read on]
A message to Antifa from a people who have a pair
ACCORDING to the Independent, 500,000 children in Britain go to school on an empty stomach. A quick Google search for ‘People going to bed hungry in the UK’ returns 56million results. You can find article after article with such headlines as ‘Shocking figures showing hidden hunger’ and ‘1 in 4 UK parents skipping meals due to lack of money’. According to the Guardian, more than … [Read on]
A statement by the leadership of Kings College London promises its alumni, staff and students it will begin:- Increasing the ethnic diversity of our senior leaders Supporting staff and students to sensitively discuss race and racism Supporting staff and students to identify and report racial microaggressions Continuing to close King’s BME attainment gaps and to develop inclusive curricula To read … [Read on]
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