Should the Equality Act 2010 be scrapped? Last week, Reform UK set the cat among the pigeons in the Leftie Blob by pledging to do just that. Suella Braverman, Reform’s new Shadow Education and Skills Secretary, said Britain is being “ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion” and promised to “build a country defined by meritocracy not tokenism”. Readers will not be surprised to hear that I heartily agree, and I set out some reasons why in the Spectator:
The devastating fruit of Canada’s capitulation to hyper-left-wing ideology.
On Feb. 10, 2026, Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender male, attacked the community of Tumbler Ridge and its Middle School, whereupon he brutally murdered 8 people and wounded 27 others, before he subsequently divorced himself from all existence in the “deadliest school shooting since 14 women were killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.”
Two brothers ‘systematically groomed’ a vulnerable 12-year-old girl for sex, a court has been told.
Kamar and Kamran Ilyas had sex with the girl in the mid-2000s when Kamar, now 39, was between 17 and 21, and Kamran, now 38, was aged about 18 to 20, prosecutors told Sheffield Crown Court on Monday.
The brothers allegedly had sex with the child after she drank alcohol and smoked cannabis. They deny the charges.
It appears that the Smith government is taking a “leaf out” of the Quebec playbook with its policy proposal to reduce government benefits to non-permanent residents (NPRs), including asylum claimants, in Alberta. But the difference is that the Government of Quebec is being upfront about the financial support being provided to its asylum claimants, rather than hiding behind a distraction through a referendum.
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I have lived in Budapest for most of the last five years and traveled extensively throughout Western Europe in that time. Over and over again in my travels, I face Europeans demanding that I justify the policies of that ‘monster,’ Viktor Orbán. To be fair, they are under no obligation to support Orbán and his Fidesz party, but it would be nice if these critics had any idea what they were talking about. They usually don’t—especially when it comes to migration.
Long ago, I concluded that these Europeans, including British bien-pensants, have to scapegoat Orbán to escape blame for the messes they have made in their own countries via mass migration. I always invite them to Budapest to see for themselves what it is like to live in a safe, well-ordered city—one that achieves that not by heavy policing, but because it is not home to a population that is internally lawless and that hates the culture that has taken them in.
If the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it, Prime Minister Mark Carney might consider visiting the Governor General in the coming weeks and asking her to dissolve Parliament.
The latest polls are starting to show a seductive spread in his favour — both in the horse race, and as far as whom Canadians consider best prime minister.
A Rhode Island English teacher who has been a vocal critic on “equity” curricula is now suing state health officials, alleging they used diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices to exclude her from the public health commission that advises the governor and state legislature.
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In a healthy nation, Canada’s loss to the United States in the 2026 Olympic gold medal game would be only a disappointment. In Canada today, it feels like a verdict.
When a people that has systematically emptied politics, culture, and education of any serious aspiration to excellence discovers that even its last unquestioned superiority, hockey, no longer belongs to it, the sting is not merely athletic; it is spiritual. The game revealed what we have been at pains to avoid: Reality has returned, and it has no patience for our stubborn ideology.
Of course the US has its share of loons.
Leftist TikToker thinks that supporting the USA Men’s Hockey team is BAD because it isn’t diverse enough, and is filled with White people who have “violent tendencies.” pic.twitter.com/Qi8Wpin9G4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2026
h/t Clink9
Some children brought up on iPads have no idea how to read a physical book with pages.
Watch them try to zoom in as if they are using a tablet. pic.twitter.com/R18tWUWut4
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 24, 2026
The public scandals and internal disagreements engulfing the Labour Party provide an all-pervasive soundtrack to life in Britain today. But it’s not just the governing party that is stuck in a quagmire of its own making. The Conservatives face an existential crisis, too. With a much-reduced presence in the House of Commons, collapsing poll ratings, and, most recently, a string of high-profile defections to Nigel Farage’s populist challenger Reform UK, the future of the “natural party of government” now seems in doubt.
Nothing but disappointment, really no different than Labour.
Lest you think people are fawning over Ellen DeGeneres and her dancing, take a peek at the comments under her video. pic.twitter.com/p6P80ymAKP
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 25, 2026
“We have the immigration system under control!” Prime Minister Mark Carney shouted during Question Period Tuesday.
Conservative Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre could not disagree more. (Nor should the millions of Canadians without family doctors, or the thousands sitting on health-care waitlists.) Poilievre is on a tear against Liberal immigration policy and what he alleges is its detrimental impact on Canadians’ access to healthcare.
WATCH: Pierre Poilievre asks Mark Carney about the gold-plated health plan given even to people whose asylum claims are rejected. pic.twitter.com/XNYZApNs1U
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) February 24, 2026
REJECTED asylum claimants are receiving vision care, physiotherapy, counseling and more
While 6 MILLION Canadians can’t find a family doctor
24,000 Canadians died on waitlists in 2024
How is it possible that people with no legal right to stay get better coverage than citizens? pic.twitter.com/CvZNEUiTOO
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) February 24, 2026
A month after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the East German rock star Petra Zieger and her band winched their instruments up to the top of the Brandenburg Gate, looming 85ft over the government district.
For a little over a decade she and her husband, the band’s drummer Peter Taudte, had been testing the boundaries of what artists could get away with under the stifling censorship of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Her hit single Das Eis taut (“The Ice is Thawing”), thought to be the only piece of music ever performed atop the landmark, captured the zeitgeist: a volatile mixture of optimism, wariness, uncertainty and excitement.
Had Pierre Poilievre had won the last election, he would not have gone to Davos to address the World Economic Forum, as Mark Carney now famously did — to Donald Trump’s scorn and world acclaim.
The Conservative leader has promised for years to steer well clear of the annual gathering in Switzerland, and committed once again in the 2025 campaign to ban ministers from any participation in the forum.
So prime minister Poilievre would have missed the chance that Carney seized earlier this year to declare to Trump and the world that Canada is shifting its gaze to a future less dependent on a now unreliable ally.
China is reliantly totalitarian.
