Week in the UK. Good or bad

On Saturday, Rye College has denied allegations that a pupil self-identified as a cat as the education secretary started an investigation into the claims . Penny Mordaunt, the Commons leader, confirmed the inquiry days after a video featuring an exchange between two 13-year-old girls and a teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, went viral. The teacher said that the pair were “despicable” for saying that gender should be linked to biological sex and told one of them she should “go to a different school” for rejecting the idea that a classmate could identify as a cat. Rye College said yesterday that it had met the Department for Education over the matter. It added that none of its pupils identified as cats or any other animal. Sir Desmond Swayne, the former Conservative minister, told the Commons: “Pupils have been denounced as despicable for failing to accept at the reality of a fellow pupil who identified as a cat. Can we have a debate on Confucius, for it was he who observ...

 There were quite important issues on Tuesday. Yet, the most positive one was that the Mayor of London has announced a £3.5m one-off free meals scheme during school holidays and weekends for children from low-income families.    That was enough to move redditors. " Does anyone else remember when people were freaking out that Sadiq Khan was a Muslim and would destroy London? He really proved them right by building cycle lanes and offering free school meals."  "I’m happy for my taxes to pay for this. Not free for many of us but free for kids in need is a good thing, just a shame it is needed." "If you ignore everything else about the pros or cons of free meals and just focus on this question: What is the cheapest way to increase the efficiency of existing education spending across the UK? (i.e., tax money already committed) Then free nutritious meals is probably the number one thing across the entire UK that would yield the best return on investment. It...

On Monday we were 'unimpressed' by Humza Yousaf's win in the SNP leadership election. He was only 4 per cent ahead Kate Forbes. In spite of his victory, a new SNP leader is considered to success merely because he campaigned as the “continuity candidate” to succeed Nicola Sturgeon. So he called by media and readers 'Useless Yousaf.' Another top politician with lack of credibility. And the Independent expressed an opinion that " Scottish independence now feels as far away as it has ever been." Readers were more than merely sarcastic:  " Yousaf and Forbes have more in common than you would imagine. Neither of them has ever had a job. Born to rule you might say."  "No politician of foreign descent should be allowed to hold high office(other than local councillor) in the U.K. a country where 87% of the population is white & Christian, especially one that peddles anti-white sentiment on You Tube.We now have a racist Muslim to the North, a...