It has been clear for a considerable time that a ferment has been building in Iran, especially among the young who long for their freedom from the regime. It is true, as Miliband said, that the opposition leader Mir Hossein... The Telegraph reports that Ralph Tabberer, the former Director-General of Schools at the Department for Children, Schools and Families who now works in the independent education sector, has condemned the comprehensive system and said academic standards have suffered because of an obsession with ‘fairness’. Not enough emphasis had been put on ‘scholarship, genuinely high quality study and its importance’, and even teaching children ‘character’ and the... Israel wants peace with the Palestinians. The cause of the conflict remains, as it ever was, the Arabs’ refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own in their historic homeland of Israel, which (contrary to Obama’s claim) predated the Nazi Holocaust by several thousand years. Those (like Obama) who think the cause is the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza are confusing cause and effect. The fundamental prerequisite for ending the conflict is therefore a public, binding and unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. Far from Israel occupying Palestinian land in Judea and Samaria, it is the...
Tuesday, 16th June 2009
Oh dear, how inconvenient for the White House
12:22pm
Britain’s embarrassing foreign Secretary David Miliband was on the Today programme earlier absurdly implying that President Obama’s famous ‘hand of friendship’ which he extended to the Iranian regime has somehow been responsible for the extraordinary popular uprising in Iran that we have seen over the past few days. On the contrary – the hand of friendship has been met with the regime’s clenched fist being brought down on the Iranian people. With the election apparently having been rigged – at least, that’s what the people think – suddenly popular fury has boiled over. Obama now looks worse than ridiculous.Monday, 15th June 2009
Now he tells us
10:18am
Not since Chris Woodhead was Chief Inspector of Schools has anyone at the heart of the ruling education establishment told the truth about the collapse of the British education system under the onslaught by egalitarian Jacobins determined to reset Britain’s cultural calendar to year zero. Today, a man who sat at the top of the bureaucracy implementing this system has blurted it out, albeit in muted form considering the disaster on his watch.A statement from first principles
1:09am
The essence of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech a few hours ago, which you can read in full here, was simply this:
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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