Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Political correctness in schools? - Politics.co.uk

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They mistakenly advance the principle that political correctness equals British values"

Trojan horse

No, Christians – Trojan Horse reforms won't downgrade Christmas

A lollipop person looks on at one of the Birmingham schools implicated in the Trojan Horse plot

Christian lobbyists are taking the government to court over plans to force independent schools to teach British values including "tolerance of those of different faiths".

No recall for Iraq

No recall: How Cameron can stay on the beach as Iraq stares into the abyss

Refugees fleeing the Isis offensive pour into Kurdistan

The government won't recall parliament over Iraq. Why, exactly, should No 10 get to decide this?

New poll blow for Salmond

Grim reading for Salmond as poll shows independence fading from view

Keeping the pound: The focus on currency appears to have paid dividends for the Better Together campaign

Further evidence the Better Together campaign is cruising to victory, after poll shows voters are unconvinced by Salmond's plans for currency union

NASUWT comments of school costs survey

Chris Keates: "The findings of this survey come as no surprise to the NASUWT".

Nobel winner Wole Soyinka gives damning speech on world’s response to Boko Haram

Soyinka: ‘The scroll of faith is indistinguishable from the roll call of death’.

Paperchase should withdraw crass ‘OCD’ hand sanitizer

The charity Rethink Mental Illness has called on stationery company Paperchase to stop selling a product which pokes fun at Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

It’s a cruel summer - RSPCA gets one call every 30 seconds about animal abuse

Back in 1983 Bananarama sang about a ‘Cruel Summer’ - now the nation’s largest animal charity is calling 2014 the cruellest summer on record, with this Saturday set to be the ‘day from hell’.

Government bans state funding of creationist and extremist nurseries

Nicky Morgan is today announcing that creationist and extremist nurseries will be banned from receiving state funding through the Government's scheme of providing 15 hours per week of free tuition.

Oxford hosts world’s largest gathering of free speech campaigners

1000 humanist activists from 67 countries meet at World Humanist Congress.

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