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A new OECD Education report shows SNP continuing to fail Scotland’s children.

William Gibson / News / 14 December 2023 / Education, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) rankings for 2022, which showed Scotland’s performance in maths, reading and science has declined since 2018. Scotland’s average reading score was 493 – higher than the OECD average but a fall of 11 points from the 2018 score of 504. […]

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More solar farms earmarked in Derbyshire

Tom Batten / News / 12 December 2023 / East Midlands, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

We have more reports of solar farms encroaching on greenbelt land in the East Midlands. This time, an energy firm wants to create two new solar farms spanning 328 acres between two Derbyshire villages. The sites earmarked for the farms are north of Denby and north of Smalley and sit 500m apart. The Denby scheme

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SNP and the Trans fiasco

Simon Crane / News / 10 December 2023 / England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

The Scottish government has lost its case against the UK government over its gender recognition bill. The court rejected the SNP’s claim that Westminster had no right to block reforms that would make it easier to change sex legally. In December last year, MSPs voted to pass the controversial Gender Recognition (Reform) Bill by 86 votes to

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The Tudor Trust to sack board

Simon Crane / News / 5 December 2023 / Discrimination, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

Or are they? It has been widely reported in recent weeks that the entire board of one of Britain’s wealthiest charities are to be sacked in an anti-racism diversity cull after branding itself “white and privileged.” The Tudor Trust, which has assets of around £288million and gives about £20 million a year to good causes,

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Nottinghamshire sex offender jailed.

Tom Batten / News / 1 December 2023 / Crime, East Midlands, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

A dangerous sex offender has been jailed after sending explicit messages and arranging to meet a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Naveed Sultan, 38, had been sending the girl sexually explicit messages, unaware that the person he was texting was an adult posing as a teenager. After arranging a meeting place, the

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Solar farms

Tom Batten / News / 28 November 2023 / East Midlands, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

Earlier this month, we reported on proposals to build two major solar farms in Nottinghamshire: a 76-hectare solar farm between Caunton and Kelham and the four-mile-wide Great North Road Solar Park, west of Newark. Over the past couple of weeks, there have been several developments which we can happily report on. More parish councils are

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Dublin ablaze

Simon Crane / News / 28 November 2023 / Crime, Migration, Opinion

On Thursday, the 23rd of November, in Dublin, a man believed to be of Algerian ancestry decided to stab five people, two of whom, at the time of writing this article, were seriously injured; one of them was only five years old. This incident sparked an outbreak of riots and civil unrest, which ended up

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Highly Skilled Migrant.

Dave Gardner / News / 26 November 2023 / Crime, England, Migration, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

We are often told by politicians and the deranged left that we need migrants in this country. Apparently, we need their doctors and engineers to keep our society going. And this has ALWAYS been shown to be false. In reality, we have little to no need for migration into our nations. It’s not just that

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Musk sues over anti-Semitism claims.

Simon Crane / News / 23 November 2023 / Discrimination, Opinion

Social media platform X has sued a left-leaning pressure group that accused the site of allowing antisemitic posts next to advertising. X lawsuit alleges that Media Matters for America “manipulated” data to undermine and destroy the platform formerly known as Twitter. After the watchdog released its analysis, firms, including Apple and Disney, temporarily stopped adverts

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Mealy mouthed migration

Dave Gardner / News / 21 November 2023 / England, Migration, Opinion, Scotland

I recently saw an article in the Guardian called “Dining across the Divide.” It’s about two people, a Tory and a floating voter, having a meal and discussing immigration. The article goes through the various stages of their meal and their chat about this subject. Incidentally, they both seem to be for it but struggle

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