It's been a naff week for Simon Bridges (you know the guy, current National leader, eyes like the last puppy in the pet shop). Last weekend's National party conference tried to put the me into meh and predictably failed to ignite the nation. Bridges looks…
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So it appears that one reason the right is so keen on charter schools that do not have properly qualified teachers or the need to comply with a state curriculum is so they can teach all sorts of things. Like creationism. From Farah Hancock at…
Unite Union's Mike Treen has been arrested in International waters by Israeli forces for being part of a flotilla that wanted to deliver medical supplies to Gaza. From Daily Blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7prhn5eMc Mike Treen is the National Director of the Unite Union, and a veteran human…
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At a time when UK Labour should be confidently demolishing the shambles that is the Conservative/DUP Government the party finds itself unable or unwilling to defend itself against charges of anti-Semitism. Clearly Jeremy Corbyn is no bigot. He's spent his whole adult life opposing racism.…
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White supremacy, male supremacy and western cultural supremacy are, or so it seems from a quick read, the basic foundations on which Molyneux and Southern have built their cash grabbing and fifteen minutes worth of fame grabbing act. Those things are also the basic foundations…
I was hoping to present a detailed analysis of Simon Bridges conference speech and what he was proposing by way of education policy. I could not however because it was nowhere on the web, at least as far as I could tell. When I went…
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