With a ten-year background working in the education sector, I know that teachers are some of the most dedicated people you will ever meet.
The right to it must be championed even when – no: especially when – remarks are made that we find reprehensible.
The more of us that come out of the closet – the political one – the more tolerant and reflective our culture will become.
The Tories have an interest in a focus on values. Reports suggest that some in Downing Street are encouraging Johnson to launch a ‘war on woke’.
Some seem to believes that they have a right to own the support of ethnic minority voters. Which they don’t.
We need to be proactive, and champion those universal values that we all share. And BAME conservatives need to be articulating and leading it.
Having been born in Calcutta, I have seen first hand the economic and human cost of the disaster that is socialism.
Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.
It has become increasingly clear that all this is less about what he did and entirely about who he is.
The government’s initial response was in fact admirably Burkean. The full force of law was used sparingly. And you know what? It did the trick.
It looks like a comprehensive rout for the hard left, with neither Long-Bailey nor Burgon getting close in their respective contests.
How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.
My lawyer friend Victoria Hewson and I have launched a small, non-funded campaign called ‘Radical’, aimed at fighting for truth and freedom in this arena.
We could give in to the leftist, isolationist Little England vision of a reclusive UK. Alternatively, we could make Global Britain a reality.