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Don’t believe the ‘rise’ in student test scores — they moved the goalposts

NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks celebrated the “extremely encouraging” that reading and math proficiency rates in city schools have gone up.

We must see how drugs have blighted left-leaning US cities and pray it doesn’t happen here

Minister are worried that fentanyl, a drug that has destroyed America’s inner cities, is coming here

Canada’s descent into ignorance shocks the world

An unbearable stupidity has trickled down from the Liberal government.

Showing Strength in the Face of Death

Immediately before a fatal duel, Shakespeare’s Hamlet gives a speech that echoes through the ages.

At least Britain isn’t that corrupt

You have to go back to the ‘Cash for questions’ scandal in the 1990s for the last time that parliament was seriously accused of being ‘up for sale’.

The fall of Lululemon — how stores surrendered to looters

On Tuesday evening a huge group of youths ransacked multiple stores in Philadelphia breaking into Foot Locker, Apple, and the local branch of Lululemon.

Finally a politician has told the truth about migration – for years we have been living with a defunct global system

It took a speech in Washington yesterday for the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, to tell some home truths.

The Fleeting Innocence of Youth

W. B. Yeats celebrates the beauty and the naivete of ‘a child dancing in the wind.’

Politicians can’t win on illegal migration

Various open-borders NGOs and others had been testing Italian law for years. Salvini worked out that if you said the illegal boats couldn’t dock, then the flow might stop, or at least slow down.

Left would have you believe Rishi Sunak’s slightly dull speech was the imminent destruction of Planet Earth

Rishi Sunak brought back the tiniest bit of sanity to the discussion on Net Zero

City Council of NY can’t solve problems, so they target George Washington

The New York City Council has advanced a bill that could remove public monuments of figures like George Washington and Christopher Columbus.

Facing Old Age with Defiance

Jenny Joseph’s ‘Warning’ is one of the most popular poems ever written—for good reason.