By Michael Woodbridge: “Take up the White Man’s burden And reap his old reward, the blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard…” When the United States relieved Spain of the responsibility for administering the Philippines, Kipling wrote these words to his friend Theodore Roosevelt, as a warning about the consequences of taking on an imperial role. Likewise, Mark Twain declared that the colours of the American flag should be changed from…

By Michael Woodbridge: The deplorable decision by the National Union of Teachers under their General Secretary, Christine Blower, to demand that any incoming government should compel teachers to extol the virtues of homosexuality highlights the almost total victory of neo-Marxist “political correctness”.  In case there was ever any doubt about Miss Blower’s Marxist credentials we can note, that before becoming NUT boss in 2009, she stood as a candidate for the extremist ‘London “Socialist” Alliance’ in…

By David Yorkshire: So, the ex-swimmer Ian Thorpe has come out. Apparently, he’s very brave. Well whoop-ee-doo. When I came out, I was told I could lose my job and career in education if I didn’t use a pseudonym. Friends looked around to see if anyone was looking when they talked to me. Members of my family said I shouldn’t get involved in the lifestyle and should steer clear of pride events in case I…

By David Yorkshire: Spring is the time of rebirth, of renaissance. Around five hundred  years ago, a European-wide Renaissance took shape – a Renaissance  in the arts, philosophy, religion and science that sought to renew the  High Roman ideal. During this period, great names emerged in the arts  – Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Palladio, Wren, Cervantes, Milton – and  in science: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton. For around four hundred years,  the elitist cultural values behind this renaissance…