With Teachers Like These, no Wonder British Youngsters Are so Unpatriotic

According to a recent survey, pride in British history is at an all-time low, especially among 18 to 24 year-olds.

This worrying trend doesn’t surprise me. Indeed, a revealing and sadly not uncommon conversation I had with a Year 10 class last term goes some way to explaining it. They asked me what I thought about the repatriation of the Elgin Marbles. “Should they be sent back to Greece?” one asked. Initially surprised by an unexpected foray into current affairs, I demurred from committing to a position, concerned that the wrong answer could land me in hot water with my woke colleagues, and aware of my professional obligation to remain neutral.

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Alien Warning: Growing Belief in UFOs Is Dangerous ‘Political Tsunami’

The belief that aliens have visited Earth and may even live among us is not a new concept; it has persisted for centuries. But now this notion is gaining unprecedented traction in the U.S. and abroad, raising concerns about its potential impact on society.

In the U.S., belief in UFO sightings as evidence of alien life has surged from 20 percent in 1996 to 34 percent in 2022, with 24 percent of Americans reporting they have seen a UFO, according to a 2022 YouGov poll of 1,000 U.S. adult citizens. In short, this belief is no longer confined to the fringes.

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The elitism of electric cars

EVs are still only viable for the well-off, urban-dwelling, laptop class.

No invention has done more to liberate society than the mass-produced car. It has become as democratised as such a complex piece of machinery can be. Today, just £1,000 gets you a Vauxhall Corsa from the early 2010s. While it won’t be fast, exciting or luxurious, it will get you as far as your petrol money and dreams will take you. Or, more likely, to work and back.

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FORSETH: And so, twelve months of tenterhooks…

Leader Jagmeet Singh has terminated the ‘supply-and-confidence agreement’ his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. The end of the deal, which was scheduled to run until June 2025, was announced via social media at mid-day today.

Singh based his comments on what appears to be complete falsehoods about Liberal greed and the cuts to programs he claims that the Conservatives plan to make. As a former MPO, I recognize these as typical deflection lies rooted in their politics of envy and resentment.

Why now, though?

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‘We were ahead of the parade’: Canada is following Quebec’s lead on tightening immigration

OTTAWA — With only two years experience in politics, Quebec Immigration Minister Christine Fréchette may be a political upstart, but she seems to be the spearhead of Canada’s immigration policy.

And now, with a mini cabinet shuffle likely on Thursday, François Legault could entrust her with yet another major file: the economy.

Since Fréchette took over as immigration minister in 2022, she has not been the most vocal or flamboyant minister but she has been trusted with one of her boss’s most cherished priorities. And again and again, Canada has followed Fréchette’s lead on immigration.

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Report: Liberals’ national campaign director told Justin Trudeau he can’t win next election so he’s quitting

The federal Liberal party’s national campaign director is quitting, the Star has learned. Jeremy Broadhurst privately told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month he is leaving, according to several Liberal sources.

The news blindsided Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford. According to one individual who spoke on condition of anonymity, Broadhurst told the prime minister he didn’t think Trudeau could win the next election and that Broadhurst should be replaced with someone who felt Trudeau could win a fourth term.

h/t Mauser

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Jagmeet Singh to NDP caucus: We’ve accomplished basically nothing, so our work here is done

Friends, brothers, sisters, and donors (yes, both of you): we did it.

It has been a long two-and-a-half years: two-and-a-half years of subtle debasement, of quiet humiliation, of trying to explain what, exactly, we’re thinking by propping up a government that we’ve also called “out-of-touch” and ineffective.

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Kelly McParland: The amazing disappearing Liberal parties of Canada

The loss of provincial Liberal parties is a striking indication of how toxic Justin Trudeau’s brand has become

If I were into conjuring, my next act would be something along the line of “The Amazing Disappearing Liberal Parties of Canada.” I’d have a cape. And an attractive assistant with leggy legs. And sound effects to distract the yokels. “Ladeees and gentlemen … watch carefully as one of Canada’s oldest parties disappears before your very eyes!”

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Continental Spring? Europe Could Be One Violent Migrant Incident Away From a Revolution

Could Europe be facing its own version of the so-called Arab Spring? That era of uprisings and rebellions started with the despair — and suicide by fire — of a single Tunisian street vendor. It tore through the political fabric of much of the Middle East. In Europe today, disaffection with leaders seen as detached from the realities of migrant crime is roiling politics across the Continent.

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Harris–Walz Campaign Hires Activist to Woo Religious Voters

St. Ho – Patron Saint of working girls.

It looks like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want God on their side this election.

Does that surprise? After all, this is the party that made its bones as an anti-God party and even booed God at one national convention. Americans who even loosely think the nation’s founders believed God had a role to play in its formation are condemned by these people with scary monikers like “white Christian nationalists.” Nearly all of the Democrats’ social policies push hard against traditional Christian doctrine — they do so on abortion, same-sex marriage, gender identity, and end-of-life issues.

Is Flip-Flopper Inc. reversing its stance on the Almighty as well?

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Jagmeet Singh had a good reason to tear up his deal with Justin Trudeau — and it’s not that he wants an election

It was a marriage of convenience that ended because it was no longer convenient. No need for progressives to shed a tear, or for Liberals to fear the fall of the government, or for Conservatives to celebrate.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh did what he needed to do, what caucus members wanted him to do, what many New Democrats members believed should have been done last year.

No one is buying Singh’s “Man of Principle” tripe.

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