Boris Johnson must steer our education system away from corrosive left-wing snowflakery
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IT’S easy to laugh at snowflakes wanting kids banned from the Tower of London in case they are triggered by its bloody past. And, yes, we are doing just that.
But there’s a serious point. Years of left-wing dominance in schools and universities have produced a generation convinced they have a right not to be offended or hear a disobliging opinion.
That kids and adults must be shielded from life’s uncomfortable realities with trigger warnings and safe spaces. Boris Johnson has many battles ahead.
But he must not overlook steering our education system away from corrosive left-wing snowflakery and back towards common-sense teaching which equips young people for real life.
Besides . . . for some kids the horror is all that makes history interesting.
Rape scandal
THE treatment of a British teenager allegedly gang-raped in a Cyprus hotel stinks. The 19-year-old was convicted of lying that 12 Israeli tourists attacked her.
All were freed when she signed a retraction after hours with police who denied her a lawyer. Yet a pathologist found evidence he believes supports claims that she WAS raped.
We share Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s worries about her case.
How safe are women partying in Ayia Napa?
Cyprus is no banana republic. It’s in the EU and Commonwealth.
Yet at best it is guilty of grotesque unfairness, at worst an obscene miscarriage of justice.
Mr Raab must not let up in his diplomatic efforts to get this woman freed — and must back her appeal to higher courts.
Labour’s lost
DID Labour ever actually want power? Corbyn clearly relished leading the “resistance” to a massive Tory majority all along.
The deluded, vain old fool really does see himself as a heroic, street-fighting Marxist revolutionary.
His preferred successor Rebecca Long-Bailey sounds like an automated supermarket checkout reprogrammed with Corbynite cliches.
Her mate Angela Rayner is a droning foghorn who spreads lies for Twitter “likes”.
Keir Starmer, the nitwit behind Labour’s fatal Remain position, tells new Tory voters in Leigh that they “need” Labour. Just marvel at that entitlement.
These no-hopers make little sense if the hard-Left genuinely want to rule. What if they simply prefer protesting?
Unfair fares
THE annual rail fare hike wouldn’t be as big an insult if our trains worked properly.
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Instead commuters face packed and late services and, worse, crippling strikes.
Time to end the automatic yearly rise — until performance gets back on track.
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