Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Transparency versus Atrocity
What kind of nation forcibly STERILISES girls as young as 12 to cut welfare bills? Like many teenagers, 15-year-old Arnaq took a part-time job in a local shop …Appallingly, though, the store manager sexually assaulted her six times over the next two years – and then she became pregnant. Then, chillingly, after she had had…
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World Class State Education?
I never thought about sending my children to public school “I never considered private school for my children,” says [Bridget Phillipson] the shadow education secretary, who has been spearheading Labour’s controversial plan to levy VAT on private school fees. … Ms Phillipson wants to produce a state education system that results in many more parents…
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Ritual Mutilation
Facing jail, woman who took girl, 3, to Africa for ritual mutilation A Somali-born woman was found guilty yesterday of taking a three-year-old British girl to Kenya for barbaric female genital mutilation. … The mutilation came to light 12 years later, when the girl confided in her English teacher at school. Anita Noor, 39, claimed…
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Contaminated Food
Bakery ordered to pay out £20,000 to sacked worker who urinated in mixing bowls Catalonia’s high court ruled that Barcelona-based Neucroissant had acted unlawfully when it dismissed the woman after citing evidence gathered by a surveillance camera in a changing area used by staff. Footage captured by the CCTV had shown the woman, who has…
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Peace in the Middle-East?
This is a study to reveal the most plausible final outcomes of the Israel/Gaza war based on evidence. Once agreed, the results will influence our present-day attitude and the choice of policies to be pursued. I fear a full-scale invasion will end in a bloody quagmire. But there is another better way … Shock and…
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Political Bigotry
Private school head teachers shunned by Opposition MPs Private school headteachers have been shunned by Labour at its conference as Sir Keir Starmer prepares to raid the sector to fund state education. More than 40 Opposition MPs and peers were invited to a reception with a group of independent school heads on Monday to discuss…
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Democratise the BBC
BBC ‘gives stars free rein’ to talk politics The BBC has been accused of allowing “open season” on politicians with social media guidelines that enable Gary Lineker and other presenters to continue to air their views. … Brendan Clarke-Smith, the Tory MP, said: “This is effectively open season for presenters to say what they like…
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Mr Fox, Are you serious?
GB News in crisis over ‘who’d shag her’ remark Dan Wootten and Laurence Fox made a series of personal remarks about Ada Evans, a political reporter, … “Show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman ever – ever – who wasn’t an incel,” Fox said, adding: “Who…
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Parliament’s betrayal
RISHI WILL NOT AXE TRIPLE LOCK ON PENSIONS RISHI SUNAK is set to fight the next election pledging to keep the pension ‘triple-lock’ – despite its spiralling cost – after being told it would be ‘political suicide’ to abandon it. … Glen Owen, Political Editor, The Mail on Sunday, p1, 24 September 2023 Only a…
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Vote responsibly or else
Birmingham council tax will rise as Government takes over Earlier this month Birmingham city council, …, effectively declared itself bankrupt by issuing a section 114 notice, meaning it has to halt all new spending. Other councils, such as Slough and Croydon, have had to put up council tax by as much as 15 per cent…
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